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Frame

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A frame is a set of meaningful signs connected to specific types of social action. Together they create a 'logic' of action and make the action understandable for those involved in it.

Formats

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Formats are recognizably patterned forms of behavior, subject to norms and judged accordingly by others.

Burcu Korkmazer on Digital Culture in 2018 & 2019

Interview

The Editors

Burcu Korkmazer

28/12/2018

In this interview, we ask phd-researcher Burcu Korkmazer to reflect on the impact of digital culture.

How Forum voor Democratie puts itself in the spotlights

Paper

Nikki Bergmans

27/12/2018

13 minutes to read

Forum voor Democratie is one of the fastest growing Dutch political parties, both on Facebook and off. How did they make this happen?

Our data: public by default, private through effort?

Article

Romy van Geffen

10/12/2018

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?

Shia LaBeouf’s metamodern subversions of authenticity

Paper

Ruben Bastiaanse

30/11/2018

20 minutes to read

How to interpret Shia LaBeouf's performance art in light of his affiliation to Metamodernism?

Big Man politics 2.0

Column

Jan Blommaert

22/11/2018

5 minutes to read

Big Man politics used to be an exotic and marginal phenomenon, but algoritmic populists such as Bolsonaro, Trump, Orbán and others made it one of the dominant formats of 21st century power.

What is the wholesome internet? How wholesome memes became a trend

Column

Piia Varis

08/11/2018

8 minutes to read

If you’re not yet familiar with the wholesome internet, it’s time you get acquainted with it - it's been around for a while already. Piia Varis (Tilburg University) guides you through this new phenomenon.

How Momo shows us that anyone can dig in our data

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

11/09/2018

4 minutes to read

Momo has been said to be a curse, a hacker and even a maniac. What is it and how does it know everything about us? What should we do if it appears in our WhatsApp?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Guns

Article

Victoria Mohr

01/11/2018

12 minutes to read

This article examines how light communities on Twitter respond to mass shootings and gun violence, and how these responses entrench narratives and communities.