Journalism as digital labor
Tiziana Terranova talks about interesting subjects in the Free Labor of which two concepts had an interesting relation with the work in...
Gaming: about freemium and fandom
As Nick Yee states in the Proteus Paradox online games and virtual worlds do change us, but not at all. That double-sided vision is...
Hackers against terrorism
In the weeks after the terrorist attacks in my home country Belgium, the hacker community Anonymous declared war by hacking to Daesh, or...
Social Media Etiquette
When Melissa Gregg talks about belonging on Facebook, it is logical that she also mentions attempts to set appropriate etiquette for a...
Fanfiction as both David and Goliath
A newsarticle in the Guardian states "those pushing for 'solutions' to piracy risk eroding the net's integrity and freedom from...
Social media life: not always what it seems to be...
New media does seem to cause new cultural anxieties, as Baym says in her Personal connections in the Digital Age (2015). My first...
Trolls in Fanfiction
Whitney Phillips gave a clear expression of who, why and how trolls are prevalent. Paraphrasing her work this practice can be defined...
Fanfiction as a Participatory Culture
"Unleash your imagination" This motto says it all; fanfiction is a writing genre that takes plot elements or characters from existing...
