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Diggit Magazine is a community-driven academic news, information and reflection platform connected to Tilburg University's Online Culture and Culture Studies programs.

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#Loom is a practice for cultural transformation that taps into place-based interactions and multispecies engagements to imagine a better world. This article describes some interdisciplinary approaches for encountering the Rhine River environment.

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Loom’s Rhine River Rehearsal at Tilburg University
Rehearsing the RhineWhat relationships connect human societies and the waters that sustain them? How do river systems divide or unite human and more-than-human communities across fluid environments? H...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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How might Het #Sinterklaasjournaal influence children's perception of politics? This article deconstructs the TV show's multiple layers to demonstrate how the show functions both as an innocent story for children and as a political parody for adults.

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The Multiple Layers of "Het Sinterklaasjournaal" and its Political Influence on Children
An iconic element of Dutch culture is the national tradition Sinterklaas. This children’s festivity celebrates the (fictional) arrival of Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) and his helpers - called ‘Pieten’...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Zohran Kwame #Mamdani has brilliantly won the New York mayoral elections. What can democrats learn from his victory and campaign? In this column, @icomaly.bsky.social discusses three elements that offer lessons for any political force—especially for the Left.

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Zohran Mamdani’s lessons for a democratic future
Many elements have been — and can be — cited to explain this surprising victory: from the weakness of his opponents to his smile, charisma, political program or the inequality and authoritarianism cha...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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This working paper explores some of the practices and mechanisms behind the multiple constructions of #place and its meanings, focusing specifically on the diverse ways in which #signage is read and incorporated into personal narratives of place.

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TPCS 50: Semiotic landscapes and mobile narrations of place: Performing the local
By Christopher Stroud and Dmitri JegelsAbstractIn this paper, we explore some of the practices and mechanisms behind the multiple constructions of place and its meanings, focusing specifically on the ...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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What is the difference between digital #vigilantism and online #abuse? In this lecture, Qian Huang discusses the meanings of various related online practices while elaborating on the connection between different cases and patriotism in #China.

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Keynote Lecture: 'Cancel culture, Online Shaming and Digital Vigilantism: Participatory Surveillance in China' by Qian Huang
Online visibility has been increasingly weaponized to cause individuals' 'social death' — that is, unrepairable damage to one's reputation within a community/society — when a perceived transgression o...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The UK has Peter Pan. Sweden has Pippi. The Netherlands has Nijntje. And now Denmark has... an illustrated bus? In this article, Mathilde Hartvig Munk examines the rise of Danish children's author Jakob Martin Strid and explains key mechanisms of canonisation.

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Is a giant picture book about a bus the new Harry Potter... in Denmark?
What does the famous British boy with a lightning bolt on his forehead have in common with a ginormous, illustrated book about a fantastic bus? Not much, you might think. But in Denmark, the children'...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The anniversary season of the Dutch television show Wie is de mol? takes place in #Portugal. Will the season inspire you to travel there? In this paper, Lobke Grootjans examines how the "Mol-effect" influences travel decisions.

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The “Mol-effect”: how one TV show determines your holiday
“Where do you want to go on holiday?” Odds are, you most likely have an answer ready if I were to ask you that question. Your answer might come from previous holidays, wanting to return to relive good...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This paper explores the semiotic production and articulation of authenticity in the context of #China and its deepening globalization processes by drawing on ethnographic observations of Enshi in Hubei Province, a remote ethnic minority area.

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TPCS 49: Inauthentic authenticity: Semiotic design for globalization in the margins of China
By Xuan WangPoint of departureIn an insightful ethnographic study of the francophone areas in Canada, Monica Heller (2003) observes that, as a result of the emerging heritage tourism, the previously s...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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This research aims to explore the discussions sparked on #TikTok by the non-Black community's appropriation of cornrows. This study will examine the historical and cultural context of #cornrows and their online appropriation.

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It's just hair: The commodification of cornrows by the non-black community on TikTok
Is it just hair? Through the rise of digital platforms, hairstyles created by the Black community, such as cornrows, have become a trend among diverse groups of teens and young adults, both online and...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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How do #AI platforms shape learning in #Bangladesh? In this talk, Sarzah Yeasmin critically examines the promise that these platforms will democratise learning, and will consequently lead to more justice.

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Theory Talks: Data Colonialism and the Politics of Ed-Tech in Bangladesh by Sarzah Yeasmin
Across the Global South, education is increasingly mediated by algorithmic systems and education technology platforms that promise to “democratize access” while simultaneously embedding new forms of s...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Metapolitical platforms are shifting the whole digital ecology toward a normalization of far-right discourse. @icomaly.bsky.social's latest article explains how and why such shifts in digital ecology occur on metapolitical platforms.

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Moderation, metapolitical platforms and the battle over the means of signification
Moderation and the means of significationMainstream digital media platforms were pivotal in the rise of alt-right, identitarian movements and the Trump movement (Maly, 2018, 2024) in the early 2010s. ...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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This paper tackles the traditional split between #sociolinguistics and second language #research with a fine-grained but integrated account of linguistic form, language #ideology and situated practice.

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TPCS 48: Drilling down to the grain in superdiversity
By Ben RamptonAbstractThis paper tackles the traditional split between sociolinguistics and second language research with a fine-grained but integrated account of linguistic form, language ideology an...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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In this response, Jaideep Singh Lalli highlights Sagnik Dutta’s In the Shadow of Minority Rights' most significant contributions and offers two questions that might inspire future research.

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Book Dialogue | Jaideep Singh Lalli reflects on Sagnik Dutta's 'In the Shadow of Minority Rights'
Sagnik Dutta’s In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism and the Politics of Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2025) is a remarkable and timely book. It is rare to encoun...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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'Literally Me' meme characters such as Patrick #Bateman are increasingly popular on social media. This paper explores their surge of online fame, its linked male community and the #parasocial relationship users form while idolizing fictional characters.

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From "Literally Me" to Structural Critique: The Parasocial Allure of Patrick Bateman
Scene 1: Pilot“From the beginnings of consciousness, humans have used stories as a way to communicate deep truths, messages or ideas” (Kotze, 2021) and ever since cinematography's invention over 130 y...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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The nature reserve in #Oisterwijk is feeling the impact of both #climatechange and increased outdoor recreation. This column proposes several solutions to reduce recreational pressure and, in turn, minimize environmental damage to the area.

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Battling Biodiversity Loss in Oisterwijk’s Idyllic Nature Reserve
Even the most beautiful towns of the country cannot escape the effects of climate change. Oisterwijk—my personal hometown, located just East of Tilburg, ended up in the top five of the most beautiful ...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Are online discussion forums spaces for democratic debate or, rather, playgrounds for anonymous expressions of #misogyny and #racism? This working paper examines responses to Sofi Oksanen's comments about the political party True Finns to answer that question.

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TPCS 46: “Listen girl. Hitler is dead.” – Reception of a female public intellectual on Finnish online discussion forums
By Sanna LehtonenAbstractThis paper addresses a literary author’s societal role as a public intellectual and examines the reception of literary authors as social action realised in online discussion f...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Are you a musician who would like to submit a unique sound for the new podcast series Living Culture, Making #Heritage (and potentially win a cash prize)? You have until October 13 to submit something.

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New Podcast Seeks a Unique Sound: Living Culture, Making Heritage
What does heritage sound like?We are looking for an original piece of music for our new podcast (deadline October 13, 2025). Are you a musician who would like to submit a unique sound for us to consid...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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In the 15th century, Antonio Nebrija observed that "language was always the companion of empire". As language generation and major tech corporations become increasingly prominent, Britta Schneider highlights the contemporary relevance of this statement.

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Keynote Lecture: 'Large Language Models as Assemblages of Digital Empire' by Britta Schneider
In 1492, the Castilian grammarian Antonio Nebrija observed that "la lengua fue siempre compañera del imperio".¹ Discourses on language are indeed central to discourses of power and our concepts of lan...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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This article examines the populist framing and algorithmic visibility of Joost Eerdmans. Despite identifying as a populist, Eerdmans' engagement with digital platforms like X highlights limitations in adapting to the hybrid media system.

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Eerdmans’ populist framing and his attempt to create algorithmic visibility
Joost Eerdmans, leader and co-founder of the Dutch right-wing JA21 party, began his political career with the Pim Fortuyn List, identifying himself as a true Fortuynist (Douwes & Eerdmans, 2021). Fort...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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This study examines how nostalgia about pre 1975 South #Vietnam is mobilized on #TikTok and how it contributes to affective polarization in contemporary Vietnam.

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Formatting nostalgia: A small stories approach to the mobilization of nostalgia about pre-1975 South Vietnam on TikTok
Fifty years have passed since North Vietnam tanks crashed through the gates of Saigon’s presidential palace, marking the end of the prolonged Vietnam War. The iconic images that followed - helicopters...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Since the early 1990s, fundamental changes have taken place in the ways in which notions like 'community' and '#identity' take shape. In this paper, Jan Blommaert therefore argues that there is a need to unthink and rethink some of these basic concepts.

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TPCS 45: Citizenship, language and superdiversity: towards complexity
By Jan BlommaertThe issueThere is a dramatic need to unthink and rethink some of the most basic concepts in social science – notions such as community, identity, and indeed citizenship. The reason for...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Who owns your digital identity after #death? In this current age, we all produce personal data, representing our digital legacy after we die. But, who decides what can be remembered, how it is remembered, and by whom?

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The Digital Afterlife: Ethical implications of memorial accounts on socio-technological platforms
Facebook memorial accounts The current post-digital society is not imagiable without the use of socio-technological platforms. Facebook, with approximately 2.9 billion monthly active users (Wong, 2023...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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What would William #Morris think if he saw his designs printed on cheap smartphone cases? In this article, @ingebeekmans.bsky.social explains how his reaction might not be as straightforward as you’d expect.

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William Morris Meets Alibaba: Mass Manufacturing, Marxism and the (Lost) Beauty of Nature
Today, for most people, the name William Morris is probably synonymous with colourful wallpaper prints, filled with birds, plants, and other references to nature. But Morris was much more than that. I...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Modern #Chinese presents contact linguistics with some interesting problems. There are various models of loanword adoption and adaptation in contact linguistics, but none of them allow exhaustive treatment of #English words in Chinese.

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TPCS 44: Transliteration or Loan Translation: Constraints on English loanwords’ integration into Mandarin Chinese
By Anna Tian and Ad BackusAbstractLexical borrowing deserves serious professional attention because borrowed words can constitute a major part of the lexicon in a language. Chinese loanwords of Englis...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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How is the online visibility of Tucker Carlson linked to the success of Donald #Trump? This article demonstrates how Carlson's understanding of the hybrid media system helped him to produce uptake for his own message while changing the meaning of 'democracy'.

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The Power of a Messenger: Tucker Carlson’s Role in Shaping Trump’s Populist Appeal at the Republican National Convention 2024
Tucker Carlson is one of the most influential figures in promoting right-wing ideology in the United States, with 4 million followers on Instagram. In the lead-up to the 2024 election, Carlson became ...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM