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gab, metapolitics, speakfreely, democracy, altright, new right

GAB, fake news and metapolitics

Article

Ico Maly

01/11/2018

9 minutes to read

GoDaddy’s decision to pull support for GAB is again used as 'proof' for the powerful political myth that the left censors right wing voices

Revolutions, the digital divide and working-class media

Column

Ana Deumert

23/10/2018

7 minutes to read

Can digital media be used to organize revolutions and uprisings? Ana Deumert considers digital social inequalities in social media use, and explores their implications for developing a radical politics of the commons.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Guns

Article

Victoria Mohr

21/06/2018

13 minutes to read

This article examines how light communities on Twitter respond to mass shootings and gun violence, and how these responses entrench narratives and communities.

How can we explain our online identities?

Article

Jady van Leusden

Ghyli Kirshner

Lieke van der Wielen

Julia Wysopal

24/04/2018

17 minutes to read

This article explains the construction of online identities and images of the body with the help of theories by Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault.

Leaving the Heartbreak Hotel online & offline.

Column

Ashna Coster

23/03/2018

8 minutes to read

This article provides a reflection on heartbreak in the digital workds, which means that one is breaking up online as well as offline. Unfollow or unfriend one another on social media and if necessary look up self-help tips on how to move on.

Trumps Tweetopoetics

Column

Jan Blommaert

19/01/2018

6 minutes to read

Trump speaks in tweets. But his tweets are made for speaking too.

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Twitter threads and supervernaculars

Article

Victoria Mohr

04/12/2017

11 minutes to read

This article utilizes Blommaert's concept of the supervernacular to analyze the communicative conventions of "Twitter threads" , and how they are mutually constructed by users and the restrictions of the platform.

New Right, nieuw rechts, Trump, Wilders, Le Pen, nieuwe media

Nieuw Rechts gaat viraal: over extreemrechtse clickbait, echokamers en sociale media

Column

Ico Maly

23/02/2017

4 minutes to read

De opgang van Nieuw Rechts is nauw verbonden met het winstoogmerk van onze digitale media. Nieuw Rechts speelt niet alleen in op hun commerciële doelstellingen, ze bouwt ook haar eigen media infrastructuur volgens diezelfde principes.