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Tweeting Fear: Affective Messaging and Anti-China Sentiments in Nikki Haley's Discourse

Paper

Isobel Huisman

05/02/2024

21 minutes to read

This paper explores Nikki Haley's affective messaging to shape public opinion against China and TikTok, exploring Haley's ideological language, narrative construction and how her discourse is received by the audience.

methodology, digital discourse analysis, ethnography

From methodology to method and back. Some notes on digital discourse analysis

Working paper

Ico Maly

07/12/2022

Methodology may not be the most juicy stuff in academia, but it is crucial if we want to produce more than just opinions. In this article, Ico Maly stresses the importance of an empirical-interpretative methodology for social scientists.

digital media, platform ideologies, digital ideologies

Digital economy and platform ideologies

Working paper

Ico Maly

16/06/2023

Can we analyse digital media platforms as producers of ideology? Ico Maly lays out a framework to do exactly that.

Catfish: The TV Show (MTV)

Review

Irene de Groot

01/11/2017

3 minutes to read

In Catfish: the TV show hosts Nev and Max help people who are head over heels about someone they met online. A review.

Anti-Chinese tech discourse

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QAnon and how they remain visible in the hybrid media system

Article

Sophie Mols

15/01/2022

11 minutes to read

QAnon keeps succeeding in spreading its messages despite the efforts of social media to censor them. This article explores how the tactics they use, real-world events, and the current media landscape influence this.

Diversity and representation in TV and movies and why it matters

Paper

Florentine Bakkenes

27/06/2022

10 minutes to read

This paper explores the positive and negative effects of representation that we see in TV programs or movies and discusses Encanto and Emily in Paris as examples that do it right and wrong.

Vietnamese Water Puppetry as an example of intermediality through the integration of multiple art forms

Article

Quynh Nguyen

25/08/2023

15 minutes to read

In this article, Vietnamese water puppetry is explained and presented as an example of intermediality in 21st century folk art.

Designers rethink social boundaries with gender-neutral fashion

Paper

Stefan Immens

Anna Vasilenka

Tomlin Smits

Milo Miranda

12/09/2022

14 minutes to read

Society is in constant change adapting to what is happening in the global environment. The fashion industry is getting stronger every day because it has been adapting in unique ways to society such as gender-neutral fashion.

Next-Gen Nederpop: The countercultural practices of Goldband, Froukje, and MEROL

Paper

Michelle Saris

Femke van Bree

Miró Supit

Janne Dolk

Fleur Terpstra

29/04/2024

18 minutes to read

Next-Gen Nederpop, led by Goldband, Froukje, and MEROL, challenges norms, engages youth with socially conscious lyrics, shaping Dutch music and fostering societal change through music.

“We Gon’ be Alright!” Kendrick Lamar: a medium to influence Social and Political Activism

Paper

Wessel Joosten

17/04/2023

19 minutes to read

This article engages with Kendrick Lamar’s career and how he interplants other voices in the black struggle to formulate a new one by analyzing a handful of songs on Kendrick Lamar’s studio albums.

Sign with two classic pictograms for women's and men's toilet, black on white.

To Pee, or not to Pee? A linguistic landscape analysis of toilet signs in the public sphere

Article

Elise Stegmann

Ot van de Rijzen

Angela Veltman

24/08/2023

14 minutes to read

In this article, we will examine six different pictures of toilet signs in public spaces, intended to be an original alternative to classic toilet signs, and how their understanding is conditional.

‘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?