15 April 2024 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
This master class explores the conceptual and methodological challenges associated with recent scholarly efforts to understand the complex relationships between global streaming platforms and national media industries. Through industrial practices like commissioning content or forming partnerships with local television providers and broadcasters, platforms like Netflix provide opportunities to interrogate issues of culture and power that have long been central to the field of Media Studies. At the same time, the global distribution of national content indicates the emergence of changing industrial practices that necessitates rethinking the consequences associated with transnational video flows.

20 February 2024 | Utrecht University
In this full-day workshop, we will use a critical making approach to develop alternative imaginaries for the smart scanning car. Many municipalities deploy sensor-equipped cars that scan license plates to check whether cars have paid for their parking. In addition, cities are working on other possible usage scenarios of these cars, from apparently benign spotting of litter and broken infrastructures to more sinister plans for crowd surveillance during Corona times (fortunately never realized).