Fashion is under scrutiny. Social activists raise the debate around animal welfare in the apparel industry. With shocking and disturbing images, they are campaigning to attract worldwide media attention in order to highlight serious animal abuse in production of fashion, and influence consumption. Our …

There is an upsurge in the use of mobile phones among higher education students in Ghana, which may result in the nomophobia prevalence with the students. Therefore, the need to assess the influence of nomophobia within the student population in Ghana. This descriptive cross-sectional study investigated …

This report aims to provide details of the creation of a cross-platform multi-user solution for the company Zwartlicht. It contains all the steps that have been used over the duration of the whole graduation project, as well as the findings acquired from exploring new functionalities of the game engine …

Cross-platform development has always been a challenge in the game development industry since each of them performs the same tasks in different ways. Platform vendors provide SDKs that expect data in a certain way, and they are different for each platform. For this reason, different implementations are …

Background: For patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), smoking is an important risk factor for the recurrence of a cardiovascular event. Motivational interviewing (MI) may increase the motivation of the smokers to stop smoking. Data on MI for smoking cessation in patients with CAD are limited, …

Informatie kan polariseren en misleiden, maar ook verbinden en sociale verandering teweegbrengen. Nepnieuws, filterbubbels en polariserende nieuwskoppen zijn het gesprek van de dag. Hebben we als samenleving een informatieprobleem? In deze rede, onderzoekt Tamara Witschge de relevantie van informatie …

Na een flinke schare mediawetenschappers, zijn de laatste tijd ook overheden en techreuzen doordrongen van het risico van hoaxes en deep fakes voor democratie en verdienmodellen. In de afgelopen maanden, waarin het nieuws beheerst werd door Covid-19 en de Amerikaanse verkiezingen, werd duidelijk hoe …

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 …