About this publication: In their new work research collective Ippolita provides a critical investigation of the inner workings of Facebook as a model for all commercial social networks. Facebook is an extraordinary platform that can generate large profit from the daily activities of its users. Facebook …

What will a shopping street look like in 2025, when online shopping continues to show double-digit growth? And what will 3D printing do to factories and logistic companies, when we can ‘print’ more and more products at home or around the corner? The digital economy is one of the most pervasive game changers …

In media audience research we tend to assume that media are engaged with when they are used, however ‘light’ such engagement might be. Once ‘passive media use’ was banned as a reference to media use, being a media audience member became synonymous with being a meaning producer. In audience research however …

High-tech horticulture production methods (such as vertical farming, hydroponics and other related technology possibilities), combined with evolving market side possibilities (consumer’s willingness to pay for variety, food safety and security), are opening new ways to create and deliver value. In this …

Entrepreneurial Journalism is gaining in interest, first in the United States, but now also increasingly in Europe and in the Netherlands. This can be explained by a combination of factors. Firstly, reorganisations and substantial lay-offs in recent years at news publishers, especially of regional newspapers, …

This research paper explores the role of women talk (schmoozing) and the gender gap in urban sociology. In the discussions concerning the changing face of the Dutch inner cities, there is an increasing tendency for attention to be paid to ethnicity, without a concomitant analysis of the impact of gender …

In the current postmodern society we live in (a society where social ties are formed around market mediated offerings), brands play very powerful and influential roles over consumers. Since people are likely to use a brand they like as a status symbol or value system to determine and show their self-worth …

This study is intended to offer an insight into the difficulties experienced by the nation-state in its policy response to asylum and to determine whether there is a post-national solution. Processes of globalization accompanied by war and conflicts, increased migration flows of refugees, and a growing …

This thesis is about the creation of a process manual for building a lower limb prosthesis socket. The target group is children between the age of 8-14 in developing countries. It is designed with local materials and tools so it can be used in rural areas without proper access to Prosthetic and Orthotic …

Het aantonen of corrosie gedetecteerd kan worden in de omtrek richting van pijpleidingen. Er wordt gebruik gemaakt van zeer dispersieve akoestische plaatgolven genaamd Lamb waves. Als transducers worden er Elektro-Magnetische Akoestische Transducers gebruikt. Corrosion inside pipelines caused by salt …