How do we express ourselves and our gender online? And how does online culture feed back into our (gender) identities?

How much control would you like over it as a user? What would your “Perfect Feed” look like? This dossier explores how the content in our feeds is organised from a moderation perspective, as well as the workings of the (graphic) user interfaces we use to access and interact with our feeds.

Currently, billions are being invested in the development of ‘the metaverse’, but is a single unified place called ‘the metaverse’ even possible?

We always want faster internet speeds and higher resolutions. But what can a ‘lighter internet’ really look like and how can it impact the digital divide and the environment?

Fan communities are getting more and more powerful both on- and offline. How do these fans, or ‘stans’, organise online to raise money or sabotage presidential campaigns?

With most of the digital infrastructures around the world still controlled and governed by Western companies, how can we resist these extractive tendencies?

TikTok is the fastest growing social media network ever and a serious competitor of US Big Tech companies. How is TikTok re-writing the world?

Chances are that our faces are being tracked while moving through our daily lives. What does the increase in the use of facial recognition systems mean for our society?

During the pandemic the power of the internet has increased exponentially, deeply altering our ideas around working from home, cultural and social gatherings, and surveillance.