Book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p.

This paper explores the relationship between Circular Economy (CE) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks—a connection that remains ambiguous in both academic literature and practical application. This lack of clarity hinders corporate accountability and progress toward sustainability …

Review of C. Rosen (2024). The Extinction of Experience. Being Human in a Disembodied World, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 272 p.

De impact van de coronaperiode blijft voelbaar, maar heeft ons ook waardevolle inzichten opgeleverd. Studenten en docenten hebben hun veerkracht moeten tonen, en op verschillende gebieden is hard gewerkt om onderwijsachterstanden in te halen die tijdens de crisis zijn ontstaan.

While there is much focus on interventions to foster ethical reflection in the design process of AI, there is less focus on fostering ethical reflection for (end)users. Yet, with the rise of genAI, AI technologies are no longer confined to expert users; non-experts are widely using these technologies. …

Book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages.

How lecturers in higher education handle, or curate, educational resources during course design, has become increasingly important with the growing amount of digitally available educational materials. Despite the recognition of curation in educational literature and the development of two conceptual …

Book review of: J. Stanley (2024). Erasing History. How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, Atria/One Signal Publishers, New York, 256 pp.

De ontwikkeling en toepassing van Kunstmatige Intelligentie (KI) heeft een aanzienlijke impact op bestaande competenties binnen vrijwel elk vakgebied, van onderzoek tot communicatie. Voor niet-ICT-opleidingen betekent dit dat het onderwijs moet worden aangepast om studenten effectief voor te bereiden …

Review of: J. Haidt (2024). The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Penguin Press, 400 pp.