Halfway through the UN 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (2015–2030), the achievement of most of the proposed targets have been lagging behind, as has been confirmed in recent UN and UNESCO reports. While these reports mostly provide external features which cause the delay, this paper analyses …

In this paper I measure first year student Facebook usage as part of a broader PhD study into the influence of social media usage on the success of students in higher education. A total of 906 students were asked to complete 3 surveys on Facebook usage with their peers, for two consecutive years (2011-2012 …

Het klassieke modesysteem – dat zo sterk verankerd is in de westerse verlichting, in industrialisatie, kapitalisme en modernisme – is niet langer houdbaar en moet opnieuw gedefinieerd worden. Hier wordt ingegaan op het proces van verandering, de nieuwe vragen en mogelijke, meer inclusieve, oplossingen …

We present our ongoing work on upgrading the Amsterdam Public Library's book database search capabilities. So far, users have had to input the exact book title and/or author name without any typos or misspellings in order to retrieve any results. This is in sharp contrast with the manner in which users …

Docenten moeten stoppen met het gebruik van antiplagiaatsoftware om het werk van studenten te controleren. Vooral studenten die de taal minder goed beheersen zijn daar de dupe van.

The study evaluated two speech recognition systems, Wav2vec2 and Whisper, for potential biases for Dutch speakers.Results obtained by evaluating on the JASMIN corpus revealed biases against non-native speakers, children, and the elderly,with (slightly) better performance for women. The study emphasizes …

Fashion design has rapidly become a digital process where textiles are simulated as soft, conformable materials on a digital body. The embodied experience and physical interaction with the textile have been replaced by screen-based media, resulting in a gap in understanding between physical and digital …

Zwaar illegaal vuurwerk veroorzaakte bij de afgelopen jaarwisseling meer letsel dan andere soorten vuurwerk. Dat blijkt uit een donutdiagram van Kenniscentrum Letselschade. Helaas vertekent het 3D-effect de data. De cijfers werden ook door de NOS gebruikt in een andere donutgrafiek. In beide grafieken …

This article offers an overview of 94 scientific studies (published between 2006 and 2022) to examine how young people (ages 10–36) define, consume, and evaluate news. Research on news and youth has exploded over the past decades, but what can we conclude from it, and how should journalism scholars move …

The number of people that intentionally avoid the news is growing. This could have several personal and societal implications. Previous research exposed various motives to avoid news, which lead to different manifestations of news avoidance, and consequently different implications. However, so far less …