The Digital World Through the Eyes of Kids
How Do Kids in Different Cultures Think of the Digital World?
Abstract
Digital-native kids navigate the digital realm like digital superheroes, leaving policymakers in pixelated dust. The world needs digital inclusion, and this study's on the frontlines, exploring how these kids conceptualise the digital world.
Our unconventional approach blends art and science, uncovering the relationship of kids with their digital world through affordances. This research sheds light on the power of kids in the virtual realm.
It's time to prioritize their digital freedom and safety – it's their digital playground, after all.
AI-Generated Art
This research project aims to analyse the current online discourse around AI-Generated images, covering both posts promoting this technology and posts critiquing it.
The methodology is based on analysing Tweets posted in a period of 20 days around the subject, and an image-based analysis of the posted AI-generated images in order to find the current usage purposes of this technology.
The European Podcast Market: A Case Study of Germany
In 2005 the word “podcast” was elected as word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. This White Paper analyses the current state and the future potential of the podcast industry in Europe using the US and German markets as a focal point for understanding this growing sector of the media landscape.
McPolitics in Lebanon
Inspired by Weber’s rationalisation of society, Ritzer recognized a pattern in consumerist societies, where several social phenomena were starting to resemble fast-food chains through four main dimensions. Applying the Mcdonaldisation theory to political action is not a common practice, but the complexity of the Lebanese political sphere gives room to various interpretations, where the unique relationship between the Lebanese people and the people in power is similar to an exchange of services. Like the talk-show example mentioned above, Lebanese politics can be viewed as a form of entertainment or a product that the public consumes, rather than being an active part of it. Therefore, using the 2022 elections as the façade of this political sphere serves as a concrete example of how the Lebanese political sphere, let’s call it McPolitics, works.
Making Sense of Neoliberalism in a Digital Age
This paper aims to conceptualize the vague notion of neoliberalism in the digital context by examining the literature on digital communication through the lens of the neoliberalism critiques, mainly Larner’s and Phelan’s, focusing on the areas of digital corporation dominance, digital activism, and big data algorithms. The paper also examines the limitations of these analyses by presenting different perspectives on the socio-political aspect of digital communication.