This chapter examines the use of deterrence by President Putin of the Russian Federation against potential democratic revolts. It combines insights from the literatures on democratic revolutions and social movements on the one hand and deterrence and coercion on the other. This exploratory research sketches …

The purpose of this literature study is to obtain information about educational approaches to teaching 11 to 12 years old children focusing on how to distinguish between real news and fake news. With this purpose we studied 16 academic papers about learning activities to make primary school children …

Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories. Disinformation, or the willful introduction of false information for the purposes of causing harm, recalls infamous foreign interference operations in national media systems. Outcries over fake news, or dubious stories …

De coronacrisis heeft de zwakke plekken in onze informatievoorziening pijnlijk blootgelegd: tijdens de crisis nam de verspreiding van nepnieuws enorm toe, en complottheorieën beleven hoogtij dagen. Hoe zorgen we als samenleving voor goed geïnformeerde burgers en hoe kunnen informatieprofessionals daarin …

A Boolean function can only have either of two values (on, or off, 1, or 0). However, most things that are of value to us humans cannot be captured in the Boolean functions. With a simplification of our complex reality to True and False, we will inevitably destroy our understanding of the world in the …

Social media users can be forgiven for feeling dissatisfied. ‘Old media’ news, based on the perpetual celebrity comeback, has hit a conceptual impasse with new cancel culture. Geert Lovink calls for the renewal of social networking tools giving users a constructive voice.

At this critical moment in time, April 2020, when we are living with the cataclysmic event of Covid-19, television – a medium declared almost dead at the beginning of this millennium – has become a vital resource for solace, daydreaming, social ritual, knowledge and storytelling. In conditions of lockdown, …

City authorities want to know how to match the charging infrastructures for electric vehicles with the demand. Using camera recognition algorithms from artificial intelligence we investigated the behavior of taxis at a charging stations and a taxi stand.

Price transparency is an essential precondition to realize careless cross-border charging in Europe. Unfortunately, in many countries price transparency in EV charging is problematic. A lack of transparency can lead to unnecessary high costs of charging for EV drivers and makes it difficult to compare …

Major news outlets increasingly use immersive techniques in their journalistic productions. The idea is that, through the application of immersive technologies, the news consumer can engage with and be part of the story. However, we do not know, to what extent this promise is actually fulfilled in productions …