Virtual communities are online spaces with potential of integration of (member-generated) content and conversations [7,8]. In our research project we are interested in the adoption and building of virtual communities in organized sports, that is to say in the voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) in the Netherlands. …

This project sought to identify the most visible Twitter users before and after one of the most critical events in recent climate politics: President Trump declaring his intent on 01/06/17 to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The lead-up to, and aftermath of, the much-anticipated announcement brought …

In this project, we investigated how the visual vernacular of climate change, defined as the platform-specific content and style of images used to articulate climate change, changed on Twitter between 2016-19. Due to the high number of tweets in the dataset, we focused on smaller time-specific samples …

Deze scriptie onderzoekt een oplossing voor de lage, online betrokkenheid op Instagram en Facebook van Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht. De aanleiding is dat de organisatie weinig likes en reacties krijgt op haar berichten: 39 vind-ik-leuks en 18 reacties op Instagram en 15 vind-ik-leuks en 4 reacties op …

Studying images in social media poses specific methodological challenges, which in turn have directed scholarly attention towards the computational interpretation of visual data. When analyzing large numbers of images, both traditional content analysis as well as cultural analytics have proven valuable. …

Climate change is one of the key societal challenges of our times, and its debate takes place across scientific disciplines and into the public realm, traversing platforms, sources, and fields of study. The analysis of such mediated debates has a strong tradition, which started in communication science …

This report contains: Implementation of social media in business strategies in the retail sector in The Netherlands. The central question is: In what ways has the implementation in 2016 of a new communication strategy with a focus on social media influenced the market share of supermarket PLUS? This …

Social media is a transformative digital technology, collapsing the “six degrees of separation” which have previously characterized many social networks, and breaking down many of the barriers to individuals communicating with each other. Some commentators suggest that this is having profound effects …

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van BUREAU X. Dit is een stichting die De Stad promoot om meer bezoekers te trekken. Hiervoor maakt het bureau onder andere gebruik van Facebook, Instagram en Twitter. BUREAU X zet Facebook het meest in als extern communicatiekanaal, maar ziet graag meer online …

Somewhere on Twitter there are two automated accounts that I created a few months ago. Their names are SorryBot and PhilosophyBot and one day they’ll become the leading activists in a fully automated social media project called #turingforthemasses. Their interaction will be automatic, without any human …