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Nabil Bakkali, a thirty-year-old member of the Dutch-Moroccan mafia, was smoking hookah and playing pachisi with friends in a lounge in Utrecht in 2017, when a phone call interrupted their game.  It was an associate of Ridouan Taghi, the alleged leader of a brutal cocaine empire and Bakkali’s boss. According to Bakkali’s account, Taghi had […]

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This article examines politicized humour in totalitarian regimes by conducting an analysis of the radio programme ‘Zondagmiddagcabaret van Paulus de Ruiter’ (‘S...

This study uses a CADS (Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies) approach to identify a series of axes around which degrees of persuasion can be mapped in debates abo...

What's fake, what's real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine. BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring speaks to people caught up in the battle for the truth.

By applying membership categorization analysis (MCA) to fictional discourse, this study investigates how various production techniques and actors’ wor…

From street thug to spy – what the Russian president did before he came to power.

Try and imagine a world without numbers. Telling people how many siblings you have, counting your wages or organising to meet a friend at a certain time would all be much more difficult. If you’re reading this on a digital screen, even these words are produced through a series of zero and one symbols. We take them so much for granted yet some cultures don’t count and some languages don’t have the words or symbols for numbers. This programme looks at when and why humans first started start to co…

Reviving the somewhat forgotten notion of ‘secondary orality’, this paper conceptualizes online conspiracism as a creative, if monstrous, response to the attent...

The Financial Times is making key Ukraine coverage free to read to keep everyone informed as events unfold

This paper examines the intersection of group-based expressions including digital moral outrage, collective guilt, and collective action on Twitter, following t...

De afgelopen weken trokken ze volop de aandacht: juice-channels. Onthullingen over grensoverschrijdend gedrag bij The Voice, video's van mishandeling door Lil kleine: ze werden naar buiten gebracht via deze kanalen. En ook bij breaking news komen de juice-channels steeds vaker in actie, zoals eerder deze week bij de gijzeling in de Apple Store aan het Leidseplein in Amsterdam. Chef media Karel Smouter analyseert deze nieuwkomers in het medialandschap. Wat betekenen deze kanalen voor de journali…

The Devils, The Possessed, or Demons, as it’s also known in translation, is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s most political novel but it’s also his bleakest and funniest. It’s a hundred and fifty years since its publication and two hundred years since its author’s birth. The novel tells the story of a group of young revolutionaries who run riot in a small provincial town in Russia, all under the indulgent eye of their elders, the liberal and progressively minded elite. It is a grim prophecy of totalitarian …

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Listen to How They Made Us Doubt Everything on Spotify. How some of the world's most powerful interests made us doubt the connection between smoking and cancer, and then how the same tactics were used to make us doubt climate change.

(2021). Determinants of Journalists’ Autonomy and Safety: Evidence from the Worlds of Journalism Study. Journalism Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). “All by Myself?” Journalists’ Routines and Decision-making in Gathering and Publishing Death-related Visuals. Journalism Practice. Ahead of Print.

Protest survey is a standard tool for scholars to understand protests. However, although protest survey methods are well established, the occurrence of spontane...

A Country Comparative Analysis of International Print Media’s Framing of the COVID-19 Pandemic

(2022). Mapping the connections of health professionals to COVID-19 myths and facts in the Australian Twittersphere. Information, Communication & Society. Ahead of Print.

(2022). Tech companies and the public interest: the role of the state in governing social media platforms. Information, Communication & Society. Ahead of Print.

(2022). Bad Impressions: How Journalists as “Storytellers” Diminish Public Confidence in Media. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Ahead of Print.

Research on conspiracy theories in digital media has grown considerably in recent years. As a result, the field of research has become more multidisciplinary an...

Ethics and Information Technology - Different people have different perceptions about artificial intelligence (AI). It is extremely important to bring together all the alternative frames of...

(2022). Intentions to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19: The Role of Prosociality and Conspiracy Beliefs across 20 Countries. Health Communication. Ahead of Print.

(2022). Unlocking Conspiracy Belief Systems: How Fact-Checking Label on Twitter Counters Conspiratorial MMR Vaccine Misinformation. Health Communication. Ahead of Print.