Our planetary footprint has become so incredibly large, precisely because we have been doing less and less ourselves. Our entire culture revolves around outsourcing. First to slaves, then to wage slaves, machines and now also to AI. We let others produce (often industrially) all sorts of things, in clean-looking …

Hogescholen en universiteiten werken aan 'Wikipedia voor de energietransitie'

Climate change is one of the key societal challenges of our times, and its debate takes place across scientific disciplines and into the public realm, traversing platforms, sources, and fields of study. The analysis of such mediated debates has a strong tradition, which started in communication science …

Underground culture and non-institutional arts of Eastern Europe, North America and Western Europe of the 1970s/1980s often included experimentation with the dispensation of individual signatures and identities, in favor of pseudonyms and collective-anonymous identities. This included dispensation of …

Content Analysis has been developed within communication science as a technique to analyze bodies of text for features or (recurring) themes, in order to identify cultural indicators, societal trends and issues. And while Content Analysis has seen a tremendous uptake across scientific disciplines, the …

Interview in N. Nova & F. Kaplan (Eds.) Lausanne: EPFL Press

InterChicken is een organisatie die gespecialiseerd is in de verwerking, productie en distributie van kip- en poelierproducten voor de zowel de grootste retailorganisaties als voor de ambachtelijke poelier om de hoek. De activiteiten van InterChicken richten zich alleen op de business to business (B2B) …

Debat in Soφie (tijdschrift Christelijke filosofie) ‘Framing is een overtuigingstechniek. De techniek bestaat eruit woorden en beelden zo te kiezen, dat daarbij impliciet een aantal aspecten van het beschrevene worden uitgelicht. Deze uitgelichte aspecten helpen om een bepaalde lezing van het beschrevene …

On Annemiek van der Hoek’s Epicpedia

Much of the discussion about Wikipedia, both in the news and in more scholarly circles, still largely reflects the concerns found in populist perspectives. What’s missing is an informed, radical critique from the inside. The Critical Point of View (CPOV) research initiative, whose material is brought …