Diggit Magazine

The Department of Culture Studies condemns the raid upon the Educational Bookstore in #Jerusalem and arrest of Mahmoud Muna and Ahmed Muna, and urges that the literature confiscated by police is returned to its rightful place on the bookshelf.

What happens when professional translators are replaced by #artificialintelligence? In this article, Patrycja Bieńko investigates how the Polish publishing house #Znak used AI to translate the novel “Whale” by Cheon Myeong-Kwan.

Streaming platforms have seriously altered working conditions in the cultural industry. In this article, Iva Konstantinova analyzes key issues in the #SAG-AFTRA and #WGA strikes through the lens of platformization. Thereafter, this article demonstrates how streaming services have asserted technological, political, and economic power to affect payments, contract lengths, and work security for many.

After more than one hundred years of Chinese #migration to the Netherlands, it seems appropriate to ask how demographic changes in the constitution of the Chinese diaspora and linguistic changes affect people’s language and identity repertoires. #China #chineselanguage

Who is Eva Vlaardingerbroek, the Dutch political commentator with over 1 million followers on X? In this article, Yuliya Hlushko explains how she has conquered social media.

Fear of Missing Out, or #FoMO, has become a defining driver of modern consumer behavior, fueled by rapidly cycling trends on social media. In this article, Eftychia Alexiou examines the Stanley Cup craze on #TikTok, revealing FoMO's ability to turn consumption into a cultural phenomenon.

Why would a company rig a full-blown #marketing campaign, just to draw attention to the fact that it is introducing a slightly modified bottle that contains the exact same drink? This working paper discusses '#culture-as-accent' as a notion that highlights the idea that many aspects of cultural life have become uniform, and that people therefore focus on minor — and seemingly insignificant — details.

What are the boundaries between a helpful AI assistant and an emotional confidant? In this essay, Kris Hendrikx argues for more awareness and caution when developing future AI systems. #artificialintelligence #chatgpt

Elon #Musk's roman #salute dominated the news. Even though he claims it was meant to show that 'his heart' goes out to the audience, it is not the first time that he is flirting with the far-right. In this column, Tarik Fraihi takes a hard look at the facts.

We are living in an online-offline-nexus where digital and non-digital worlds collide and in turn control our social lives. But do #videogames help us gain skills to socialize in the offline world or do the make us anti-social instead?