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Generative AI

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Generative AI refers to deep learning synthesis technologies that create computational content such as images or memes from text.

Podcasts

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A podcast is an episodic audio program or digital file series that can be downloaded on a personal mobile device or computer.

Transmedia Storytelling is a concept that explains the distribution of media content across multiple media platforms. In a multi-layered media landscape, content is no longer confined to one medium, but rather works across media boundaries.

Audience Labour

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likes, shares, clicks, comments, views, posts, only data to gain more visibility in the hybrid media system (Maly, 2020)

Junk News

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Junk news is news that is consumed and goes viral not because it is relevant or appreciated, but because it is addictive (Venturini, 2019).

Hyperlinks

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Hyperlinks are links from one hypertext document to another and usually consist of a highlighted word, phrase, or image. The term was used and elaborated on by Juliette De Maeyer in her article, 'Towards a hyperlinked society: A critical review of link studies'.

Counter-mapping

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Counter-mapping refers to the effort of mapping against dominant power structures with the aim of creating social or political change.

Data void

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Data voids are engine queries that turn up little to no results.

Digital Issue Mapping

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Issue mapping is a concept to study the social connections made when actors interact and create bonds. It asks how a matter of “fact” becomes a matter of “concern” when connections are made, and can be an especially fruitful way to study online culture and phenomena.

Surveillance

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Surveillance is a mode of power based on the detailed and totalized observation of behavior. It is the prevailing form of power developed and deployed in modernity

Multimodal Discourse Analysis

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Multimodal discourse analysis is a method that takes into account multiple modes of communication and how they interact with one another.

How China’s #MeToo evaded the “great firewall” in the digital world

Paper

Prajakta Athlekar

25/09/2023

9 minutes to read

Amidst an authoritarian censorship, China's #MeToo movement creatively bypasses the "great firewall" in the digital world.

A truthful conversation with ChatGPT

Paper

Noortje Bisschop

20/09/2023

17 minutes to read

This article examines AI's position in the debate between a universal type of truth and a post-truth narrative by means of an interview with ChatGPT.

Albanian mountain views in black and white

The Transcontinental: Benign sousveillance across Europe's other spaces

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Tom Van Hout

24/08/2023

10 minutes to read

Ultracycling throws into relief the prosaics of machine vision in heterotopian spaces of hedonism and minimalism. I illustrate what it's like to navigate surveillance technology in an ultracycling race across Europe.

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Algorithmic discourse analysis: the good and the bad of LDA topic modeling

Paper

Ruben den Boer

21/08/2023

22 minutes to read

Algorithmic methods can be used to analyse thousands of pieces of discourse in a matter of minutes. But is more always better? In this article I introduce one such method: LDA topic modeling.

MeWe: Mark Weinstein’s technological utopia

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Nikki Bergmans

12/06/2023

15 minutes to read

This article unravels how Mark Weinstein questions the surveillance capitalist hegemony of Silicon Valley and discursively constructs a technological utopia by translating his beliefs into social media platform MeWe.

Sophie Scholl from the history books to Instagram

@IamSophieScholl: Instagram meets 1942

Article

Nathalie Schabio

11/09/2023

12 minutes to read

@IamSophieScholl is a multimedia project that brings Sophie Scholl from the history books into the present through the affordances of social media. This article unravels the tension between fact and fiction inherent in the project.

A revolution triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini

Bearing witness online: How hashtags enabled an uprising in Iran

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Prajakta Athlekar

05/06/2023

15 minutes to read

This paper explores how the fearless citizens of Iran are bearing witness every single day and strengthening the revolution through witness footage, hashtag framing, and authenticity.

Apple's surveillance system in contemporary society

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Gergana Mihaylova

29/05/2023

12 minutes to read

This article discusses how Apple surveils its users and influences their behavior through their multiple devices, violates their privacy, and exploits their data.