From the onset of the Corona crisis, a specific policy challenge was identified in the Netherlands: How to motivate young people to adhere to the behavioral measures, such as physical distancing? Young people have an important role to play in stopping the virus from spreading, but they may be more difficult …

In line with discursive psychology’s re-specification of psychological categories as discursive practices, this chapter focuses on everyday mobilisation as social action. We analyse online communication on Facebook Event pages of local social movements, designed to mobilise for political gatherings such …

Introduction: The Netherlands has been known as one of the pioneers in the sharing economy. At the beginning of the 2010s, many local initiatives such as Peerby (borrow tools and other things from your neighbours), SnappCar (p2p car-sharing), and Thuisafgehaald (cook for your neighbours) launched that …

With the rise of innovation and entrepreneurship as avenues for journalists to take in their search for journalistic work, we need to critically interrogate how these terms are understood. Various journalism institutions are pushing a particular understanding of journalism, and of what constitutes meaningful …

Negatieve impact van COVID-19 is weer toegenomen: toename angst en stress, afname vertrouwen in overheid, RIVM en GGD. Tijdens het voorlopige hoogtepunt van de corona-uitbraak, in april, bleek dat een groot deel van de Nederlandse bevolking angstig en onzeker was. Bij de heropening van de samenleving …

Binnen de diergezondheidsector is er sprake van toenemende concurrentie en een veranderende markt. Tegenwoordig beoordelen consumenten steeds vaker dierenartsen op het internet en kiezen nieuwe klanten op basis hiervan een dierenartsenpraktijk. Het gebruik van internet en social media is ook een toenemende …

Scrollen, liken, commenten, appen, videobellen en nieuws streamen. Digitale media zijn onlosmakelijk verbonden met ons dagelijkse leven. Maar in de vernieuwde werkelijkheid waarin de overheid met haar COVID-maatregelen aanstuurt op ‘social distancing’, zijn we nog meer dan voorheen afhankelijk van onze …

This chapter examines the use of deterrence by President Putin of the Russian Federation against potential democratic revolts. It combines insights from the literatures on democratic revolutions and social movements on the one hand and deterrence and coercion on the other. This exploratory research sketches …

This article interrogates platform-specific bias in the contemporary algorithmic media landscape through a comparative study of the representation of pregnancy on the Web and social media. Online visual materials such as social media content related to pregnancy are not void of bias, nor are they very …

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have …