Working as speech acts that delineate online communities, claims to victimhood tend to evoke contestation. Their inherent political nature spurs user engagement in the shape of clicks, shares, emojis, and so on. TikTok’s multimodality has given rise to new practices of engagement that significantly shape …

This thesis explores the improvement of communication and performance tracking within a front-end development team using Jira project management software at Creative Clicks. The reason for this exploration is the various challenges faced by the front-end team, most notably miscommunication between the …

Objectives: Aiming to reduce distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks by alerting the consciences of Internet users, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of four warning banners displayed as online ads (deterrent—control, social, informative, and reorienting) and the contents of their two linked …

The following research justification report indicates how to organically increase the number of visitors on the Slovak website at YourSurprise via the optimization of the relevance pillar of SEO – Title Tags, Meta Descriptions and Content. Five information gaps were identified as basis for the research: (1) …

To evaluate the construct validity and the inter-rater reliability of the Dutch Activity Measure for Post- Acute Care “6-clicks” Basic Mobility short form measuring the patient’s mobility in Dutch hospital care. First, the “6-clicks” was translated by using a forward-backward translation protocol. Next, …

Hoe kan de communicatieprofessional omgaan met de waardering van feiten en emoties? Volgens Yale-professor Dan Kahan zijn mensen van alle rangen en standen steeds meer geneigd hun eigen feiten te selecteren, juist nu ze zo voor het grijpen liggen. Het ordenen van feiten volstaat steeds minder om een …

Vrouwelijke twintig- en dertigers nemen een koppositie in op het gebied van onderwijsniveau en studieprestaties, toch blijkt dat slechts 36 procent van deze groep economisch zelfstandig is (CBS, 2014). Het vrouwenemancipatiebeleid van de Rijksoverheid streeft naar het verhogen van de arbeidsdeelname, …

Since the dawn of advertising in the Netherlands there have been much changes. Advertising has become an essential tool for any type of organization (Rakker, 2009). Nowadays, grasping the attention of an audience is becoming more and more difficult (Libbenga, 2013). Mark Jetten (2014) said “We barely …

Open design appears as one in a row of similar expres - sions of ‘open X’ – open access, open data, open knowl - edge, open hardware – most of which were coined in the early years of this century and modelled after ‘open source’ in software. They denote a departure from presumably ‘closed’ practices …

This dissertation was created with the goal to examine how online shopping has changed retail, specifically department stores and their business model, and to recommend a course of action and business model for entrepreneurs considering starting an (online) department store. There are several recommendations …