I first encountered a fake Facebook event about three years ago. It was named Naruto run in front of the Parliament building. A Naruto run is...
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Travel Envy
Written by: Pieter de Jong We all watch YouTube video’s, don’t we? I do, that’s for sure. I love watching YouTube video’s and travel video’s by...
Continue reading...How Political Fandom is Shaping the World
14 November 2020 Source: How Fan Culture is Swallowing Democracy. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/arts/how-fan-culture-is-swallowing-democracy.html
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Digital Discussions Episode 5
Episode 5: The Language of the Internet This the fith episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities,...
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The Age of Business on Instagram
We all are familiar with Instagram and using it to post our life’s highlights to the quirky pictures or scroll through memes and cat pics. But...
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Why does President Trump choose to manage the country via Twitter?
26 October, 2020. Early in the year 2016, there was a blog titled “Donald Trump says Facebook and Twitter ‘helped him win’”, in which the author...
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Digitization, seniors and corona
By Marcel Beentjes, student French language and culture Are you that family person who helps your grand parents or your uncle who doesn’t really know how...
Continue reading...Online Fanfiction website: The Underestimated Grassroots literature
Are you a fan of something, whether it is a movie, a historical figure or even a football player? Have you ever read a fanfiction online...
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Work in progress- ep. 1: Master procrastinators
Welcome to the first episode of the (bi-weekly?) student-made podcast: Work in Progress! In which Camiel and I discuss the hardships of contemporary life, while trying...
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Emotions for Likes: It’s Good for Business
Written by: Akif Aliyev The year of 2020 in many senses has been a year of reflection. Not just for me I believe, but for all...
Continue reading...Define: “Too Much” Media
**flashback to 2005, Malaysia** When I was in my early teens, my mom would yell (yes, yell!) at me for spending too much time on the...
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