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Superdiversity

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Superdiversity (also written as super-diversity) refers to two major changes occurring across the world after the end of the Cold War: (a) new patterns of migration causing demographc changes, and (b) the emerging internet and its generalized spread, influencing all aspects of social, cultural and economic life.

Lauren Zentz on Digital Culture in 2018 and 2019

Interview

The Editors

Lauren Zentz

14/12/2018

In this interview Lauren Zentz shares her thoughts about the impact of digital culture, and talks about her hopes for the future. For instance, she hopes that her work will contribute to our understandings of how to conduct sociolinguistic and ethnographic research that accounts for the power and even the ubiquity of the internet in many people’s daily lives.

#BodyPositive: Disrupting Normativity Online

Article

Victoria Mohr

Mehreen Sarfaraz

08/11/2018

11 minutes to read

#bodypositive has been used by more than 4 million users on Instagram. This paper uses a Foucauldian lens to explore how body positive Instagrammers counter normative discourses of the body in western societies.

Body politics

File

Obsession with one’s body is often part of growing up. The unspoken question is here: which standard are we trying to apply to ourselves?

Don’t stop thinking: the key to a well-functioning public sphere

Interview

Gabriela de la Vega

05/03/2018

Professor Odile Heynders (Tilburg University) discusses the changes in the public sphere due to digitalization and our responsibilities as individuals

Hyperloop: what about the margins?

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

13/11/2018

13 minutes to read

Would you like to travel from Tilburg to Amsterdam in just 12 minutes? Or go on holiday to Spain in 1,5 hours? Hyperloop can make your traveling experience reach a whole different level of comfort and speed.

The credit company that went too far. Would you let them invade your privacy?

Column

p.hu@tilburguniversity.edu Hu

12/06/2017

5 minutes to read

This article illustrates the impact of the Chinese credit company Sesame Credit and expresses deep concern about its future development and the equality and privacy issues it will bring to Chinese society.

Buzzfeed’s attempt to break the filter bubble

Column

Zoë Gielen

08/11/2018

3 minutes to read

Buzzfeed, the queen of clickbait and useless lists, has made an attempt to break the filter bubble by introducing a new online feature.

Playboy's Postfeminism Problem

Column

Julie Peters

14/11/2018

4 minutes to read

Playboy is trying its hand at the feminism debate, but it is a hollow attempt.