This study investigates the degree to which children anthropomorphize a robot tutor and whether this anthropomorphism relates to their vocabulary learning in a second-language (L2) tutoring intervention. With this aim, an anthropomorphism questionnaire was administered to 5-year-old children (N = 104) …

This chapter investigates the deeply mediatized experience of place and space within the lived practice of events by studying two annual Dutch cultural events as cases: Oerol Festival (2017) and 3FM Serious Request (2017). Drawing on substantial datasets containing online and offline participant observations, …

While literature and practice acknowledge the potential of service innovation as well as digitally enabled innovation processes, the diverse innovation process literature lacks a process model which combines these two aspects. This systematic literature review aims at filling this gap by analysing innovation …

Scenario voor 2030 In 2030 voorzien we een samenleving waarin digitale netwerken en -platforms ten dienste staan van de communicatie tussen mensen en niet of veel minder van de maximalisatie van de beurswaarde van Big Tech-bedrijven. Hun dominantie is gebroken door een combinatie van druk van gebruikers …

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have …

Due to the increase in scale due to (digital) technology, we are increasingly losing sight of our "common grounds". Our behaviour becomes bizarre, almost psychotic, but decimated by social media. In these Big Tech 'village squares ', we are both consumers and producers, like the sheep of yesteryear, …

Organisations of land managers in landscape management face the challenge of combining the need to foster bonding social capital within their member groups with the need to develop bridging social capital with other stakeholders and linking social capital with public authorities. This paper compares …

Background: For a stress-management app to be persuasive and impactful, designers and developers should obtain a clear perspective of the value proposition according to key stakeholders before development. However, this is often not the case. In order to increase the chance of creating an impact by means …

This paper addresses the design dilemmas that arise when distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are to be applied in the governance of artificial material commons. DLTs, such as blockchain, are often presented as enabling technologies for self-governing communities, provided by their consensus mechanisms, …

Vorgetragen bei der Eröffnung der Digikonferenz der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung im Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main, 5. März 2020.