Working as speech acts that delineate online communities, claims to victimhood tend to evoke contestation. Their inherent political nature spurs user engagement in the shape of clicks, shares, emojis, and so on. TikTok’s multimodality has given rise to new practices of engagement that significantly shape …

Touristification of consumption spaces describes a process in which retail and hospitality businesses adapt to the tourist demand, eroding place attachment among local residents. While this is an important cause of resistance to tourism, little is known about the mechanisms that drive or mediate this …

Poster. We studied Karen meme as a crowdsourced phenomenon, presenting a missed-behaved consumer, involved in multiple sociopolitical concerns over time. Through these memes, the crowd expresses different emotions, visual expressions, and use intertextual references for presenting Karen and the episode …

Moral food lab: Transforming the food system with crowd-sourced ethics

Presentation at the SMiLES consortium meeting about the current status of the project

Afstudeerportfolio waarin wordt onderzocht hoe de online profilering van studenten van de master Classical Music van het Prins Claus Conservatorium verbeterd kan worden om conversie (het aantal potentiële werkgevers dat contact zoekt) te verhogen. Het project werd geïnitieerd met als doel het creëren …

The surge of smart city technology, thinking, publications and consultancy offerings is significant. This implies there is something seriously developing. But to what extent is this a new development? In this paper the case will be made that urban design has always had to include new technologies and …

Companies use crowdsourcing to solve specific problems or to search for innovation. By using open innovation platforms, where community members propose ideas, companies can better serve customer needs. So far, it remains unclear which factors influence idea implementation in crowd sourcing context. With …

Over Trump en 'alternatieve feiten'.

We finished USE2015 with a closing session inspired on the example of the successful closing session of USE2013 in Nelson, New Zealand. The session hosted a few different parts – you can, for instance, read about the PhD award the first newsletter we published after USE2015. Main element was that the …