power

Lies, Laws, and Literature: What Franz Kafka Teaches Us about Power and Politics Today

Article

Katherine Huber

Odile Heynders

17/06/2024

11 minutes to read

What can we learn about contemporary by reading the work of Franz Kafka? In this article, Kate Huber and Odile Heynders address The Trial, pro-palestine protests, The Metamorphosis and the toeslagenaffaire.

approaches to digital discourse analysis, adda5

Call for papers ADDA 5 (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 5)

Call

The Editors

04/06/2024

3 minutes to read

Panel and paper proposals are invited for ADDA 5, to be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands 21-23 May 2025.

Gamification Has Turned Connecting With Others Into a Game – How Helpful Is It Really?

Paper

Iris Olde Hampsink

19/10/2022

13 minutes to read

This article discusses Tinder's game design elements, its variable rewards, and the power relations between Tinder and its users that permeate the app.

Jan Blommaert, Documentary, language, power, activism

Language x Power x Activism - The Last MasterClass of Jan Blommaert

Video

The Editors

16/11/2021

The last masterclass of Jan Blommaert on Language X Power X Activism. A must-see for all academics and activists interested in language, power, ideology and antiracism.

Elon Musk's SpaceX: How the 'space race' to Mars adopted The Californian Ideology

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

15/11/2021

18 minutes to read

Elon Musk as a media personality and his projects such as SpaceX are the big tech products of the Californian Ideology.

The power of online reviews in decision-making

Article

Nadine Visser

15/01/2020

11 minutes to read

Online reviews are widely used for decision-making in daily life. Reviews of entertainment objects (e.g. films, books) are used as evidence of their quality. In this paper, we discuss the construction of "experts" on cultural knowledge online.

Professor Jan Blommaert on Antonio Gramsci and the internet

Professor Jan Blommaert on Gramsci and the internet

Video

The Editors

28/11/2019

What would the communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci think about hegemony and the internet? Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University) answers that question.

Dutch Language Representing Translator Dialect And Netherlands

'Dutch only at work’ : Discrimination or reasonable?

Paper

Meauraine van Gorp

04/01/2019

16 minutes to read

Language requirements at work: a form of discrimination or reasonable selection? The following article provides an analysis that helps to determine your opinion regarding this matter.