Based on 13 interviews with Eritrean status holders and professionals in Amsterdam this article explores how paying attention to media skills and media literacies may help gain a better understanding of what matters in exchanges between professionals and legal refugees in the mandatory Dutch integration …

Purpose Social media have become a key part of placemaking. Placemaking revolves around collaboration between multiple stakeholders, which requires ongoing two-way communication between local government and citizens. Although social media offer promising tools for local governments and public professionals …

This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study …

Fear needs dealing with. Fear demands to be abated, countered or turned into something else, contributing and curtailing how we ‘do’ being human beings. This special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies addresses fear within media and popular culture, adopting a cultural studies approach …

Dat er op de stagemarkt sprake is van kansenongelijkheid, wordt door alle studenten waarmee er in dit onderzoek naar stagediscriminatie is gesproken onderschreven. Studenten geven aan dat veel stagebedrijven nog altijd vasthouden aan een bepaald normbeeld. Dit is een ideaalbeeld waar een stagiair …

Omdat haat en racisme op social media nauwelijks bestraft worden, wil een meerderheid van de Tweede Kamer de pakkans verhogen. Naar aanleiding van dit bericht was er in diverse media-aandacht voor #datmeenjeniet, een project van Movisie, Diversity Media en Hogeschool Inholland. Daarbij worden jongeren …

Dat er op de stagemarkt sprake is van kansenongelijkheid, wordt door de ruim 50 studenten waarmee er in dit onderzoek naar stagediscriminatie is gesproken onderschreven. Studenten geven aan dat veel stagebedrijven nog altijd vasthouden aan een bepaald normbeeld. Het hebben van een ander uiterlijk, een …

The moment of casting is a crucial one in any media production. Casting the ‘right’ person shapes the narrative as much as the way in which the final product might be received by critics and audiences. For this article, casting—as the moment in which gender is hypervisible in its complex intersectional …

This is the introduction to a special issue on media and transgression, one of early cultural studies’ key terms. It inquires into the uses of transgression as a critical concept to query contemporary media culture which is discussed in six case studies: on political satire, Mukbang, cult drama, the …

Social media have become important platforms for residents to engage with their neighborhood. This paper investigates two Facebook communities that focus in distinctly different ways on Amsterdam-Noord, a gentrifying neighborhood in Amsterdam. Dialogue on both Facebook communities is found to be thoroughly …