How can the popular television series Adolescence help academics to think in novel ways about the uses and meanings of emojis? In this reflective piece, Agnese Sampietro explains why it is important to understand that emojis like 🫘 and 💊 have vastly different meanings for different communities.
Communicational exchanges that do not necessarily intend to inform or exchange any meaningful information might not appear important, but for many...
This column critiques the contemporary narratives of space colonisation promoted by billionaire entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. While often framed as visionary responses to ecological problems, these imaginaries are deeply rooted in existing political, ecological, and economic...
According to Qudsiya Contractor, Sagnik Dutta’s book ‘In the Shadow of minority rights’ is an interesting and timely intervention into debates surrounding minority rights, gender and the post-colonial Indian state that have animated the Muslim question in the context of the rise of Hindu nationalism...
Sagnik Dutta’s new book In the Shadow of Minority Rights: Decolonising Gender, Liberalism and the Politics of Difference boldly engages with the tough...
What happens when art meets environmental justice? Explore this question through a cultural studies analysis of Irish artist's Michele Horrigan's ongoing arts-based research project Stigma Damages . In collaboration with the artist, Tilburg University hosted an exhibition of Stigma Damages in the...
The Turing test was designed to determine whether a machine had reached human-like intelligence. If a human could converse — 'chat' — with a machine...
Communicational exchanges that do not necessarily intend to inform or exchange any meaningful information might not appear important, but for many individuals and communities, they are crucial. In an impoverished community like that of the Wesbank in South Africa, ‘phatic communication’ and...
Any intent to connect debates about Dutch migration and integration policies to abhorring events like the Balkan massacres or those of the Holocaust...
