The nature reserve in #Oisterwijk is feeling the impact of both #climatechange and increased outdoor recreation. This column proposes several solutions to reduce recreational pressure and, in turn, minimize environmental damage to the area. www.diggitmagazine.com/battling-bio...

Are online discussion forums spaces for democratic debate or, rather, playgrounds for anonymous expressions of #misogyny and #racism? This working paper examines responses to Sofi Oksanen's comments about the political party True Finns to answer that question. www.diggitmagazine.com/working-pape...

Are you a musician who would like to submit a unique sound for the new podcast series Living Culture, Making #Heritage (and potentially win a cash prize)? You have until October 13 to submit something. www.diggitmagazine.com/new-podcast-...

In the 15th century, Antonio Nebrija observed that "language was always the companion of empire". As language generation and major tech corporations become increasingly prominent, Britta Schneider highlights the contemporary relevance of this statement. www.diggitmagazine.com/keynote-lect... #GenAI

This article examines the populist framing and algorithmic visibility of Joost Eerdmans. Despite identifying as a populist, Eerdmans' engagement with digital platforms like X highlights limitations in adapting to the hybrid media system. www.diggitmagazine.com/eerdmans-pop...

This study examines how nostalgia about pre 1975 South #Vietnam is mobilized on #TikTok and how it contributes to affective polarization in contemporary Vietnam. www.diggitmagazine.com/formatting-n...

Since the early 1990s, fundamental changes have taken place in the ways in which notions like 'community' and '#identity' take shape. In this paper, Jan Blommaert therefore argues that there is a need to unthink and rethink some of these basic concepts. www.diggitmagazine.com/working-pape...

Who owns your digital identity after #death? In this current age, we all produce personal data, representing our digital legacy after we die. But, who decides what can be remembered, how it is remembered, and by whom? www.diggitmagazine.com/digital-afte...

What would William #Morris think if he saw his designs printed on cheap smartphone cases? In this article, @ingebeekmans.bsky.social explains how his reaction might not be as straightforward as you’d expect. www.diggitmagazine.com/william-morr... #WilliamMorris #craftivism #marxism

Modern #Chinese presents contact linguistics with some interesting problems. There are various models of loanword adoption and adaptation in contact linguistics, but none of them allow exhaustive treatment of #English words in Chinese. www.diggitmagazine.com/working-pape... #linguistics

How is the online visibility of Tucker Carlson linked to the success of Donald #Trump? This article demonstrates how Carlson's understanding of the hybrid media system helped him to produce uptake for his own message while changing the meaning of 'democracy'. www.diggitmagazine.com/power-messen...

The vice president of the world's most powerful country, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social, has stepped into the role of an activist influencer to announce a new McCarthyist era. www.diggitmagazine.com/jd-vance-sho... #freedomofspeech #charliekirk #JDVance

In this paper, Ntefne Dafni Santsak examines how AI- generated images from #ChatGPT’s DALL·E 3 (re)produce age-related discourses, highlighting the role of AI systems in knowledge and ideology production. www.diggitmagazine.com/can-ai-defin... #AI #genAI #aging #DALLE3

For linguists, all language varieties are equal in all respects, but we know that some language varieties have more prestige than others. In this working paper, @josswanenberg.bsky.social highlights the consequences of the unequal treatment of local languages. www.diggitmagazine.com/working-pape...

On the final day of his mayoralty, mayor Theo Weterings addressed the inhabitants of #Tilburg via the municipality's Instagram account, calling them to take good care of each other, while evoking emotional histories and contrasting meanings. www.diggitmagazine.com/final-goodby... #digitaldiscourse

What’s new about #digitalart? Who can make it? How do curators and conservationists keep #digitalheritage for the future? These questions and more were addressed by curator and art historian Sanneke Huisman in her keynote lecture at Tilburg University. www.diggitmagazine.com/we-cant-save...