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Cancel Culture encapsulates the acts of withholding support or endorsement from individuals or institutions on social media due to a collective disagreement or disapproval of their actions, beliefs, or behaviors.

'I love you and I care about you’: How ASMR content creators establish parasocial relationships with their viewers

Paper

Eline Klaessens

15/04/2024

13 minutes to read

This paper is concerned with parasocial relationships in the context of ASMR-inducing content. Through analysis of two videos, it aims to identify tools used by ASMRtist to establish these relationships with their audience.

Citizen Journalists of Scandal: Navigating truth and fiction on Dutch juice channel lifeofyvonne

Paper

Michelle Saris

11/03/2024

10 minutes to read

This article explores how juice channels fit into the concept of citizen journalism and how juice channels such as lifeofyvonne contribute to the blurring lines between truth and fiction.

‘The Bellinga's Kids Don’t Know Any Better’: On the Privacy and Surveillance of Family Vloggers' Children

Paper

Linsey van Kuijk

17/01/2024

11 minutes to read

The Bellinga's are one of the most successful and famous Dutch family vlogging channels on YouTube, they star in their own movies, they sell merch and produce daily vlogs. But does this lifestyle invade the children's privacy?

Eviane Leidig on The Women of the Far Right

Video

The Editors

20/02/2024

What is the role of women in the far-right? In this video, Eviane Leidig explains how far-right female micro-celebrities help to "normalize and legitimize" the ideological beliefs of the far-right.

Ghislaine Handiri: Authentic Self-Presentation on Social Media

Paper

Noa Reijnen

27/01/2023

9 minutes to read

This paper describes how one specific influencer, Ghislaine Handiri, presents herself as authentic on Instagram and how Instagram as a mediator influences and shapes her authenticity.

Ben Shapiro in the hybrid media system: methodology and methods

Article

Ruben den Boer

Sarah Hong

Şehnaz Canbolat

Prescilia Kiangala

12/04/2023

12 minutes to read

This article presents a detailed account of the methodologies and methods we deployed while investigating how Ben Shapiro uses mainstream digital media to have a voice in the hybrid media system.

Picture of Ben Shapiro, in the background we see some of his social media posts

Telling stories using platform affordances: an analysis on Ben Shapiro’s social media use

Article

Ruben den Boer

Marel van Andel

Prescilia Kiangala

27/03/2023

16 minutes to read

Platforms are not neutral. Their affordances and quantification shape the stories we tell and read. This article delves into this phenomenon by focusing on how Ben Shapiro tells his metapolitical stories on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

The uptake of Danielle D'Souza Gill: Platform matters

Article

Joël Eduard Nicholas Grassère

Daisy van Belzen

Zuzanna Witek

Siem van Merwijk

Bjorn Fijneman

Mirte Glasbergen

30/06/2023

28 minutes to read

Danielle D'Souza Gill is a popular far-right influencer. The manner in which her followers engage with her posts varies per platform. Read this article to discover how this works differently on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.