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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.

Data void

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

Online-offline nexus

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The online-offline nexus is a description of social reality in the post-digital age. We live our social lives increasingly at the intersection of online and offline forces.

Data double

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A data double is a data-generated profile of an individual based on aggregated online surveillance.

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.

The trade-off between privacy or public health

Paper

Noa Reijnen

16/05/2022

10 minutes to read

This paper aims to analyze how De Jonge and the Parliament have approached and reacted to a data breach at the GGD. The underlying question of this case is whether the Dutch society should value privacy or public health more.

How the QR code became a meaning-making practice during COVID-19

Article

Tinka Krikke

Laurinda Bokma

Simone Sprangers

27/09/2022

10 minutes to read

In this article, we analyze the corona QR code as a meaning-making practice and discuss its effects on society. The QR code was implemented to reduce the spread of COVID, but it's digital nature and meaning had an impact on society's resilience.

Conspiracy theories, Fake News & Digital Media

File

Conspiracy theories and fake news are not new phenomena, but digital media did enable the upscaling of the circulation, and thus the impact of those conspiracy theories.

DNA tests surveillance and privacy issues: AncestryDNA, 23andME, MyHeritage, or none at all?

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

05/05/2022

12 minutes to read

Despite its wide promotion and millions of customers around the world, the DNA test services raise questions on how the businesses are set up and what the regulations behind it are.

Ideology and Technology

File

In this new Diggit file, we bring together discourse analytical research on the ideological impact of the tech industry.

Elon Musk and his Musketeers' discourse on Twitter

Paper

Juliette Berndsen

24/01/2022

16 minutes to read

Elon Musk and his fans converse easily in memes and jokes on Twitter. While this discourse is slightly bewildering to outsiders, the power Musk holds over his fans can have a serious impact on real-world events such as cryptocurrencies.

Will AI save us from fake news?

Column

Nataliia Vdovychenko

24/03/2022

6 minutes to read

Attempts to decrease the spread of ‘fake news’ might come with the risks of censorship and control.

Can artificial intelligence make medicine more humane? (Eric Topol)

Review

Jenny Slatman

22/11/2021

7 minutes to read

Eric Topol, the author of Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019), argues in this book that articificial intelligence can make healthcare more humane.