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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.

Influencers and identity. Who do you want to be?

Article

Rob Dekkers

17/09/2019

12 minutes to read

Even for kids it is quite easy to present themselves to the world and learn to manipulate their online identity. But how does constructed identity affect online culture and what is the effect of impression management on our notion of authenticity.

Jordan Peterson as a human filter bubble

Academic paper

Inge van de Ven

21/06/2019

19 minutes to read

The case of Jordan Peterson demonstrates that in today’s public spheres, the figure of the public intellectual is not necessarily free from ulterior motives in filtering information for the general public.

Interested in globalization? Watch cricket

Column

Jan Blommaert

17/06/2019

7 minutes to read

The Cricket World Cup 2019 is a global media event of enormous size, while cricket itself is practiced only in a relatively small area in the world. How come?

The Mind of Jake Paul: a YouTube documentary

Article

Kristiana Naydenova

30/05/2019

17 minutes to read

What happens when one YouTuber films another YouTuber? This paper analyzes the potential for truthtelling in the YouTube documentary The Mind Of Jake Paul.

The Kardashian-Jenner Expository Empire

Article

Bibi Bonten

30/05/2019

15 minutes to read

Our values regarding privacy and dignity are changing in this online age, and exhibitionism is more alive than ever. The Kardashian family of influencers serves as an example to elaborate on these ongoing changes in our society.

How Dotan's lies tell the truth about social media

Article

Seline Westerhof

28/05/2019

14 minutes to read

Dotan's scandal and how new media has changed the concept of "autobiography"

Stephanie Buttermore's Cheat Day videos

Article

Elina Postova

Ana Clara Panontin Scarabelli

Ruzhica Kiprijanovska

26/04/2019

10 minutes to read

Stephanie Buttermore and her layered social media personality give us insight into how influencers construct a widely desired body image. Her "Fantasy Cheat Days" make us wonder about the nature of such content and what it reflects.

Joel Beukers gives his own twist to Foucault's biopower

Article

Yannick Arts

Thijs van der Weijden

25/04/2019

11 minutes to read

Joel Beukers, a Dutch fitness guru and entrepreneur, has been very successful thanks to the obsession with the human body and the current technological era. His loud personality resembles that of another Dutch media personality.