WhatsApp

How WhatsApp's privacy policy raises major concerns

Article
Nathalie Schabio
30/01/2023
15 minutes to read

This article looks at why people use Whatsapp given the privacy concerns around the platform. Read the article to learn about the connection between the expository society, the lack of privacy, and participatory surveillance.

Behrouz Boochani, activism, no friends but the mountains

Literary Activism: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains

Column
Odile Heynders
17/11/2020
6 minutes to read

Kurdish journalist / philosopher Behrouz Boochani spent nearly 5 years in a detainee camp on Manus island texting messages from a hidden mobile phone. The messages were composed to a literary novel, winning a prestigeous prize in 2018.

Thierry Baudet, Forum voor democracy, forum for democracy, radical right, CARR

An Insight into Forum for Democracy ’s WhatsApp groups

Article
Ico Maly
28/09/2020
7 minutes to read

Forum for Democracy's (FvD) Thierry Baudet claims that mass media deliberately paints his right-wing party in the Netherlands in a negative way. An analysis of youth Whatsapp groups shows a different reality.   

Momo

How Momo shows us that anyone can dig in our data

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
28/08/2018
4 minutes to read

Momo has been said to be a curse, a hacker and even a maniac. What is it and does it know everything about us?