How do rural journalists negotiate between the dominant metropolitan-based rules of their field and their position within communities?
Paper out w/ Tyler Nagel. For rural-specific reporting practices, a-typical business ideas, & unconventional innovations, see journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Devising DigiD: the performativity of sociotechnical imaginaries in national digital identity systems
First paper published from Maud Rebergen's PhD project on digital identification systems. With proud supervisors @riksmit.bsky.social and I.
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Just two days before her excellent PhD defense, the next paper of Kim Smeenk's PhD project on personal journalism was published.
We show how displaying (happy) emotions has become a strategy to build report with audiences and to be considered more reliable
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We introduce this theoretical framework to understand how disadvantaged citizens are compelled to continually improve their digital skills and capacities to meet the demands of the digital welfare state. We then show how low‐literate Dutch citizens experience this regime in their everyday lives.