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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.

Babylon's Burning

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Babylon's Burning is a YouTube Talkshow on Digital Culture. It is a co-production between Babylon, Center for the study of Superdiversity (Tilburg University) and Diggit Magazine.

The politics of Google

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Google is your best friend. That is the answer one usually gets when one ask for some piece of information. This answer can be read as an index of a very influential media ideology: that Google is a benevolent, neutral instrument providing users with the truth. Reality is a bit more complicated. In this file, we zoom in on the politics of Google.

What do 'Napalm Girl' and Alan Kurdi tell us about the digital public sphere?

Paper

Mariska van Schijndel

06/03/2019

12 minutes to read

With the rise of digital media, news items are increasingly based on emotions rather than rationality. In an ideal public sphere, we would have both.

Professor José van Dijck on today's 'platform society'

Video

Inge Beekmans

11/02/2019

Who is responsible for public values in an online society? Professor José van Dijck talks about the challenges Europe is facing because of 'GAFAM' (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft) and the impact dataflows are having on our daily lives.

#10yearchallenge conspiracy goes viral

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

20/02/2019

5 minutes to read

#10yearchallenge has conquered our timelines, but also face recognition algorithms and targeted advertising.

The battle of 'The System Kills Us' against Valeri Simeonov

Article

Aleksandra Lazarova

10/04/2019

11 minutes to read

Recently a series of actions taken from former Vice Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Valeri Simeonov, led to him submitting his resignation. This article investigates how a Bulgarian online movement collaborated to take him down.

Alexandra Georgakopoulou on digital culture in 2018 & 2019

Interview

The Editors

21/12/2018

Alexandra Georgakopoulou expects Facebook and other ‘big’ platforms to continue their aggressive expansion in 2019 into all sorts of domains. In this interview she elaborates further on that idea.

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.