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Ethnography

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Ethnography can be defined as the small-scale study of human behavior through "clinical" observation and intersubjective participation.

Although we tend to think about digital humanities as the application of quantitative methods to digitized material, other digital tools can impact scholarship considerably. I introduce three types of born-digital publications: public databases, hypertext journals, and companion websites. I argue that these are digital humanities tools that drive nonlinear research practices, enabling personal and communal readings.

Health

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.

Martin Luther King

Challenging the politics of knowledge, continued

Column
Jan Blommaert
28/06/2018
9 minutes to read

Jan Blommaert: 'In the discussion on the politics of knowledge, the political-economic dimension is absent. Academics can do more and better things in attempts to redress existing racial and gender inequalities.'

Wat is Populisme? (Jan-Werner Müller)

Review
Jan Blommaert
04/05/2017
14 minutes to read

Wat is populisme? is een boek dat zich vlot laat lezen, maar dat analytisch niet zwaar weegt.

Het nut van de zachte methode

Article
Tom van Nuenen
17/01/2017
2 minutes to read

De kritiek op methoden uit de geesteswetenschap, die onlangs weer oplaaide, is van alle tijden. Het is aan de wetenschap om opheldering te bieden. Diggit Magazine lanceert een reeks artikelen over methoden. 

Academic publishing and money

Article
Jan Blommaert
15/09/2016
4 minutes to read

We usually forget the real production price of academic work in Open Access discussions.

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