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Diggit Magazine
Diggit Magazine is a bilingual community-driven academic news and information platform (ISSN: 2589-6741) connected to the bachelor ‘Online Culture: Art, Media a
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Let’s talk about big tech (no, not you)In her first Diggit column, Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University) makes the case that big tech has a consent problem and that researchers should address the lumpy, inconvenient, political reality of big tech.
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Elisabeth Warren, clickbait and truthElisabeth Warren's statement on her male contenders being "electoral losers" enables us to examine the ways in which clickbait actually works.
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Charlie Kirk's Culture War, Groypers, Nickers and Q&A-trollingSince mid-October, Charlie Kirk’s Culture War tour has been increasingly haunted by the Groyper Q&A-trolls, who use the Q&A section to frame Kirk as a cuck.
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The Amazon fires as talking to BolsonaroAccording to Daniel Silva, the Amazon Fires can best be considered as political talk: as digitally formatted practices trying to communicate with Bolsonaro.
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How Digital Health Platform 1DOC3 exploits the Global South1DOC3, a recently created Colombian digital health platform, claims to be the future of medicine. With a public discourse of universal access, its business model profits from global inequality.
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Conspiracy theories in digital cultureConspiracy theories are not a new phenomenon; they existed long before the Internet came along . Nowadays, however, the media play a big role in contributing to and promoting those theories.
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Freedom, Authenticity, and TravelingTravelers these days are not that free and authentic as they were years ago. Travelers get influenced and followed provided by technological opportunities what results in a market mechanism of fake authenticity.
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The evolution of YouTube starsThe content on YouTube has changed tremendously over the past few years. This article looks at the changes in content by some of the biggest YouTube creators and discusses potential reasons for these changes.
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How EU families in Britain are coping with Brexit uncertaintyBrexit is usually thought of in terms of the nation and the EU. Less attention is spent on the impact of the Brexit negotations on mixed families and the uncertainty it creates.
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The truth behind Anonymous for the VoicelessAnonymous for the Voiceless seems to know how to rapidly spread their message around the world, and get many people to listen to their activism. But how do they do that?
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How AOC turned C-SPAN into a media hitAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez congressional hearing interventions have turned C-SPAN's traditionally unspectacular broadcasts into a highly successful hybrid media format.
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#YoVotoMM: Mauricio Macri, bots and dirty campaigning in ArgentinaA series of bizarre tweets ruined a Twitterstorm in favor of the president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri. Either a bot campaign which went wrong, or a 2.0 dirty campaign strategy?
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How to really talk to your conservative brother-in-LawLiberals in the US should not be confused with the Left. In fact, they often argue within frames derived from neoliberalism.
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Tumblr's ban of pornographic contentWhy does Tumblr have a new policy to ban all adult content? The general response of users is not positive, and this article will explore the reasons behind the decision, as well as the issue of content moderation that many platforms are facing
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Dr. Linnet Taylor on data justiceWould you like to live in a world with perfect discrimination? Probably not. That's why thinking and talking about data justice is important. Dr. Linnet Taylor from Tilburg University explains.
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Babylon is Burning: Jan Blommaert on globalism, globalization and cultural marxismTrump, Bolsonaro and others reject "globalism". Along with "cultural marxism", this term has become widespread in meme wars too. But what does it mean?
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The age of surveillance capitalismThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff deserves a productive public and academic debate. It should not only be read and discussed by a broad audience. Scholars across disciplines must engage with it. 
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Our data: public by default, private through effort?Review of Facebook's privacy settings: What is their idea of the level of publicity and privacy? How do they encourage users to be either public or private by presenting certain defaults?
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Red Dead Redemption 2: What’s your favorite game worth to you?Just two weeks before the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, we might consider whether it is worth the human costs of its developers.
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The debate around ShelterThis paper explores how the term anime is culturally defined and if there is a difference in how people who are part of the Western anime fandom classify anime as opposed to people who aren’t.
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