So-called fake news and problematic information on social media assume an increasingly important roles in political debate. Focusing on the (early) run-up to and aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, this study examines the extent of the problematic information in the most engaged-with content …

Increasingly, Instagram is discussed as a site for misinformation, inau-thentic activities, and polarization, particularly in recent studies aboutelections, the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines. In this study, we havefound a different platform. By looking at the content that receives themost interactions …

Het begrip persoonsgericht werken is niet meer weg te denken uit de zorg voor mensen met dementie. Er is echter weinig bekend over hoe zorgmedewerkers in verpleeghuizen invulling geven aan persoonsgericht werken. In deze kwalitatieve studie staat de vraag centraal op welke manier zorgprofessionals en …

Feelings of disconnectedness and social isolation among older adults are increasingly recognised as important challenges of our times. Interestingly, nature interaction can stimulate social connectedness and enhance perceived social support, indicating that nature can contribute to social wellbeing. …

In dit essay onderzoeken we in hoeverre corona zorgde voor een ideologische tweedeling en werkte als contrastvloeistof die bestaande ongelijkheden zichtbaarder maakte. We nemen hierbij de coronavaccinatie als casus. We gaan in op de motieven van de ongevaccineerde minderheid: in hoeverre vormen zij een …

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 …

This chapter will focus on the deep evolutionary history of the cognitive capacities underlying linguistic iconicity. The complex capacity for linguistic iconicity has roots in a more general cross-modal ability present throughout the animal kingdom, cross-modal transfer. Cross-modal transfer is the …

In deze bijdrage staan zzp’ers die twee tot tien jaar geleden kanker kregen centraal (N = 90), bestaande uit een subgroep zzp’ers die ten tijde van de kankerdiagnose al zzp’er was (n = 47) en een subgroep die dat daarna is geworden (n = 43). Kankerbehandelingen kunnen leiden tot zogeheten late effecten, …

This special issue of Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power is an invitation to critically interrogate how our everyday technological, social, and embodied experience of organisation as a traveling concept (Bal 2002) and socio-material (Orlikowski 2007) production of reality, can generate …

Through a correspondence between two scholars, this paper explores and critiques various ways in which scholars working in ethnography and cultural analysis frame and construct their methodology and object of study. Through the close reading of theoretical accounts of methodology in ethnography and cultural …