Diggit magazine

05/12/2025

Based on a study that was carried out in and around a Chinese complementary school in the Netherlands, this paper describes an ongoing shift along with demographic, economic and political changes, and consequently argues that 'Chinese' should be understood as a polycentric language.

By Jinling Li and Kasper JuffermansIntroductionMobility has become one of the key notions in the field of sociolinguistics (Blommaert, 2010; Blommaert and Rampton, 2011; Pennycook, 2012). In an ever more globalised world, the movements and migrations of people become increasingly important to und .....

04/12/2025

Which historical contexts allowed multinational corporations to influence ? In the first episode of Theory Talks, Sarzah Yeasmin draws comparisons between the disappearance of knowledge about bengali muslin fabric, colonial educational reforms and contemporary interactions between educational technologies and common people.

Would you like to learn more about the impact of education technology in Bangladesh? You can watch Yeasmin's entire presentation via our website: https://www.diggitmagazine.com/theory-talks-data-colonialism-and-politics-ed-tech-bangladesh-sarzah-yeasmin

03/12/2025

When individuals share their views about and medicine via social media, the way they portray their personal experiences has the potential to contribute to the spread of medical misinformation. Through a critical analysis grounded in theories of representation, this article examines how this phenomenon plays out in the case study of the "temperature method" for natural conception that has gone viral on .

The Changing Dynamics in Contraceptive ChoicesIn recent years, an increasing number of people have been turning to non-hormonal contraceptive methods. The motivations behind this shift are diverse; for instance, there are growing concerns about the side effects of hormonal contraception, such as ...

01/12/2025

Recent developments have made the ideological nature of digital increasingly visible. In this video, Ico Maly discusses how certain platforms have even been designed explicitly to exert ideological influence, and change the meaning of significant societal notions, such as ' '. Through the lens of critical digital discourse analysis, it becomes possible to uncover the ideological and metapolitical dynamics embedded in the platforms' discourses and infrastructues.

All online platforms are ideological platforms. This statement might make sense to an increasing number of people today. However, until a few years ago, most online platforms aligned with dominant ideas about how society should function to such an extent that their ideological dimension often wen .....

28/11/2025

Whether taking quantitative or qualitative approaches, Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship has largely ignored – erased even – the gendered and sexualised nature of public space. This working paper argues that and sexuality should be brought onto the map of Linguistic Landscape research to a larger degree than has been done thus far, and that a particular type of approach – a q***r theoretical lens – through which to read “public texts” should be employed.

By Tommaso M. MilaniAbstractThe main argument of this article is that Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship has largely ignored – erased even – gender and sexuality, two important axes of power along which public spaces are structured, understood, negotiated and contested. In order to partly ...

26/11/2025

On the eve of her 80th birthday, children’s literature icon Longstocking was inducted in the official Swedish cultural canon, an instrument of citizenship education. How did an unruly outsider become an emblem of Swedishness? What are the implications of her receiving canonical status? This article explores how Pippi’s inclusion in the canon challenges traditional notions of what it means to be Swedish. Considering her ambiguous social position and identity, it investigates how she expands prevailing notions of Swedishness.

Pippi Longstocking: The Glue that Holds Swedish Society Together?Pippi Longstocking, children’s literature icon, turns 80 today. The first of three Pippi-books was published on 26 November 1945. It immediately catapulted Swedish author Astrid Lindgren to fame. Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on ...

25/11/2025

How are systems changing what we believe to be true, and how might this transformation affect what counts as evidence, risk, or eligibility in public life? In this talk about algorithmic epistemicide, Marco Germanò explains how AI technologies displace or overwrite situated knowledges through probabilistic logics that claim objectivity while eluding avenues for contestation.

In this presentation, Marco Germanò discusses a study that examines how AI systems are reshaping the production of truth in contemporary societies through predictive and classificatory outputs that increasingly serve as epistemic anchors in public decision-making. While often framed as neutral t .....

24/11/2025

According to Payal Arora, academia and industry are way to focused on the Global North, while thinking way to superficially about internet users in the . In this keynote lecture, she explains why we should realise that 90 percent of the world's youth live outside 'the West', and that these young people are not very different from their western peers. They too are focused on leisure and their , providing us with several reasons to be more optimistic than we are.

What actions and innovations are needed to create an inclusive internet? What kinds of principles should we live by if we want a regenerative, redistributive, and resilient tech enabled society? In the last decade, cheap mobile phones and data plans have brought the next billion users online – ...

21/11/2025

Situated in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, the Amager project studies language use, linguistic resources and language norms in the everyday life of contemporary children and adolescents under the current superdiverse social conditions. The aim of this working paper is to present an overview of the main results from the Amager project, including a discussion of language ideology.

By Lian Malai Madsen, Martha Sif Karrebæk and Janus Spindler MøllerThis paper builds on work carried out by a large research team which, in addition to the three authors of the working paper, includes Jens Normann Jørgensen, Astrid Ag, Andreas Stæhr, Signe Wedel Schøning, Liva Hyttel-Sørens .....

19/11/2025

More and more people are opposing fast fashion by choosing the slower process of or crocheting their own clothing. However, with a popular material being acrylic yarn, is it really a alternative? In this column, Rhys de Volder explains that, even though making your own clothing is more ethical than leaving it to underpaid and mistreated workers in sweatshops, there are also some negative consequences of knitting and crocheting that need to be explored.

One fateful morning in 2019, I asked my mum to teach me how to crochet. Ever since then, it has been a passion that has followed me from the cinema to the (digital) classroom, and I’m not alone in this. During the COVID-19 pandemic, doing fibre crafts became a popular hobby. In 2020, the yarn c .....

18/11/2025

For our Dutch-reading audience: Is het zo onschuldig als het lijkt? Het gefictionaliseerde nieuwsprogramma anno 2025 leest tot dusver vooral als een pleidooi voor militarisering en een spoedcursus burgerschap.

Altijd wat aan de hand in SinterklaaslandPakjesavond staat voor de deur en dat zal heel Nederland geweten hebben. De intocht van de Sint op 15 november en het dagelijkse Sinterklaasjournaal (online en op NTR) bereiden jong en oud voor op het jaarlijkse kinderfeest. Het populaire televisieprogramm .....

17/11/2025

What happens when drag meets ? In this article, Yun Chao Zhang analyzes the digital activism of Pattie Gonia, a q***r environmentalist performer. Through performance and play, Pattie redefines activism on and TikTok, blending climate advocacy with LGBTQ+ visibility.

Who Is Pattie Gonia?You could describe her as a drag artist, a climate activist, or a content creator. But why not all three? Pattie Gonia, the online persona of Wyn Wiley (he/they), is an eco-conscious, hike-loving drag queen whose videos have reached millions of people around the world, redefin .....