In welke werelden bewegen jongeren zich? Waar hechten zij waarde aan? Wat betekenen sociale media voor hen en hoe maken zij er gebruik van? Leefwerelden van jongeren gaat over het dagelijkse leven van jongeren: thuis, op school, met hun vrienden en als grootgebruikers van media en digitale cultuur. …

Skyler White is a protagonist in the top-ranking television series Breaking Bad. She is also one of the most hated characters on television. This paper focuses on how the character of Skyler and Anna Gunn – the actor that plays her – are turned into a ‘composite celebrity’ in audience discussions. This …

The wide use of social media has facilitated new social practices that influence place meaning. This paper uses a double case study of two neighborhood blogs in gentrifying communities, to explore the role of social media in sharing place associations and community formation. Drawing on Collins’ theory …

Deze rapportage bevat een analyse van het maatschappelijk debat over de terreinen onderwijs, cultuur, wetenschap en media. De analyses zijn in de periode 2010-2015 gemaakt. De analyses van het maatschappelijk debat zijn bedoeld om het beleid beter te doen aansluiten bij de maatschappelijke vraag. De …

A welcome policy can be embedded in a municipal authority organisation in a number of different ways. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. To be effective, the local policy makers must be clear on how they hope to make use of the welcome policy and how this will benefit or suffer from different …

This paper discusses a recent (and ongoing) Dutch television series called Penoza (Kro, 2010-). It portrays the Dutch criminal milieu from the perspective of the daughter of an Amsterdam mobster who shortly into the first season will be the widow of another criminal. Against her wishes she is drawn into …

Lecture on reading images (using semitiocs and discourse theory) and the theorization of 'affect' (what is it that images 'do' to us).

Onderzoek in opdracht projectgroep Leef en Leer! (bestaand uit ObA, gemeente Amsterdam, E-TV en AT5) om onderzoek te doen naar de kwaliteit van netwerkvorming en netwerkintelligentie en de manier waarop die netwerkvorming ondersteund kan worden met een goed hanteerbare communicatiestructuur. Leef en …

This paper will query whether a dedicated news platform can attune to young people’s civic needs? That is to ask: can this be a space that follows a social media logic of conversation and ‘give and take’ – with producers and consumers changing roles or even losing the distinction? How could and would …

In media audience research we tend to assume that media are engaged with when they are used, however ‘light’ such engagement might be. Once ‘passive media use’ was banned as a reference to media use, being a media audience member became synonymous with being a meaning producer. In audience research however …