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Influencers: From Connectedness to Connectivity

Article
Mariosé Bergsteijn
05/01/2019
10 minutes to read

Online social life is not merely about human connectedness anymore. This article shows how influencers instead use automated connectivity to influence their audiences via social media platforms.

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

Article
Aleksandra Lazarova
22/12/2018
12 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.

Lauren Zentz

Lauren Zentz on Digital Culture in 2018 and 2019

Interview
The Editors
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.

Brexit : An Online Battle With Offline Casualties

Article
Rebecca Jaffe
10/12/2018
14 minutes to read

In the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Leave campaign emerged victorious. This can be somewhat attributed to their effective use of social media strategies across multiple platforms. This article will explore how such tools produced this outcome. 

Facebook, privacy,

Our data: public by default, private through effort?

Article
Romy van Geffen
07/12/2018
12 minutes to read

Review of Facebook's privacy settings: What is their idea of the level of publicity and privacy? How do they encourage users to be either public or private by presenting certain defaults?

Expeditie Robinson competition

Expeditie Robinson, fan engagement and Facebook’s new style

Column
Laura Smits
01/03/2018
2 minutes to read

The new Facebook update has created a big buzz, as almost every change does. Would it be better to invest energy into adapting rather than complaining?