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Extinction Rebellion's Global Hunger Strike

Article

Merel Groot

06/12/2019

15 minutes to read

Controversial activist movement Extinction Rebellion organized a Global Hunger Strike to raise awareness on food shortages globally, urging governments to take action. This article examines how they used Facebook's affordances for their campaign.

Area 51 raiders: from meme to micro-population?

Article

Leonie Milder

03/12/2019

16 minutes to read

A Facebook event called 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us' went viral in the summer of 2019 and gave rise to 'Area 51 raiders'. Two million people said they'd be 'going'. Its impact was huge, but are Area 51 raiders a micro-population?

Elizabeth Warren's battle against paid political speech

Article

Jelske van Es

28/11/2019

14 minutes to read

Since unregulated paid political advertising is still not banned from all social media platforms, Elizabeth Warren has become a central figure in the battle against this spread of misinformation to curtail its influence on the 2020 elections.

Facebook and the Rohingya genocide deniers

Paper

Tunde Farago

16/10/2019

17 minutes to read

How do the Rohingya genocide deniers use Facebook to spread their narratives and what kind of arguments do they use to support their claims?

Yellow Vests from France to Taiwan: A globalized icon of resistance

Article

Lisa van Turnhout

18/09/2019

11 minutes to read

The article discusses how the yellow Hi-Viz vests used by French activists became a global icon of resistance for different, local causes around the world, and how the internet has been the force that propelled this idea forward.

The algorithmic populism of Matteo Salvini

Paper

Serena Guerra

29/05/2019

13 minutes to read

This article analyses the communication and social media strategy of the Italian populist leader Matteo Salvini. How does he and his party use social media to create a community, spread anger and get consensus. Read this article to find out!

Anti-vaccine movement: the epidemic of stupid

Column

Blean Tsige

06/03/2019

13 minutes to read

The purpose of this column is to highlight the influence of social networking platforms on society. In particular on the way in which the outbreak of measles can be blamed on to misinformation that is spread on these platforms.

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.