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BookTube

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BookTube is a community on YouTube that focuses primarily on creating content, specifically videos, around the subject of literature and book-related subjects.

Mediatization

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Mediatization can be described as the dependency between media communication and sociocultural change, in which the media are becoming increasingly powerful (Hepp, 2013).

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.

A truthful conversation with ChatGPT

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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.

Gorillaz: how a global transmedial project can shake our faith in reality

Article

Anna Francuzova

02/02/2024

8 minutes to read

Gorillaz, formed in 1998, revolutionizes music with a transmedial universe. Animated characters and multimedia platforms create a groundbreaking, immersive experience, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.

New understanding of AI through post-humanist life writing

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Jaimy Pijpers

19/06/2023

21 minutes to read

Kazuo Ishiguro portrays a nuanced characterization of AI with 'Klara and The Sun'. This paper re-evaluates the genre of life writing so it can provide a better understanding of AI and other-than-human perspectives.

Surveillance & Geopolitics: Why the European Union Banned TikTok for Government Officials

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Iva Konstantinova

01/11/2023

13 minutes to read

This article analyzes the privacy policy of TikTok in comparison to that of Meta’s Instagram and Facebook because of their greater popularity and similarity in video streaming methods on the premise of the surveillance-industrial complex.

Bandersnatch: You Make The Call, Right?

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Wulan Bekker

24/05/2023

11 minutes to read

This paper examines the ways in which Bandersnatch and in specific its interactive function is a response to our post-digital way of living.

EU and Digital Literacy Skills in Europe's Digital Decade

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Femke Pulles

Lieke Jacobs

29/03/2024

11 minutes to read

With the emergence of digitalisation, people need to navigate through the online world. Europe recognised this and aims to get 80% of the EU population digitally literate by 2030. This article analyses the goal's feasibility.

"Mobilisation is going according to plan": caricature art during the Ukraine war

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Anna Francuzova

04/03/2024

10 minutes to read

This paper explores the unique role of caricature art during the Ukraine war, examining how it functions as a powerful tool for propaganda, satire, and protest, challenging authority during times of war.

The governmental fight and the concept of privacy

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Nikki Bergmans

24/04/2023

16 minutes to read

This paper analyzes the concept of privacy and the arguments of the opponents and proponents of the Proposal for regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse.