Moving away from the strong body of critique of pervasive ‘bad data’ practices by both governments and private actors in the globalized digital economy, this book aims to paint an alternative, more optimistic but still pragmatic picture of the datafied future. The authors examine and propose ‘good data’ …

Are migrant entrepreneurs innovative with their business ideas and practices? The introduction of novel business ideas would provide migrant entrepreneurs with a cutting edge advantage against competitors, but the research about this topic is thin on the ground. I propose that the opportunity of migrant …

Het beleidsideaal van hybridisering in het sociaal domein staat voor een situatie waarin professionals en informele partijen steeds meer onderling verweven raken in hun ondersteuning van kwetsbare huishoudens. Informele en formele partijen zouden in dat ideaal steeds nauwer met elkaar optrekken en taken …

In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi …

Deze scriptie richt zich op het maken van een pilot en een format voor het spel Vertellis. Vertellis BV zocht een programma idee dat paste bij hun bedrijf. Zij hebben als missie om binnen een jaar één miljoen mensen geïnspireerd te hebben. Dit doen zij door veel sociale media te gebruiken. Zij proberen …

In 2017, Denmark sent the first digital ambassador, Casper Klynge, to Silicon Valley. The aim of this move of ‘techplomacy’ was, as Klynge explained, not simply to distribute greetings notes by the Danish queen. Rather, the intention was to ‘update diplomacy’ based on the recognition that a few tech …

The wide use of social media has facilitated new social practices that influence place meaning. This paper uses a double case study of two neighborhood blogs in gentrifying communities, to explore the role of social media in sharing place associations and community formation. Drawing on Collins’ theory …

This paper investigates the relationship between self-build housing and the wider planning and housing regime. Although there is growing policy and academic attention to self-build housing, there is a lack of understanding of the institutional and regulatory conditions shaping the prospects of such housing …