Trial by TikTok: Expertise, Evidence, and Narrative Trust in the Lively–Baldoni Case

Together with Gina Leyva, Research MA student and student assistant at Tilburg University, I have been working on Trial by TikTok, a project examining how lawyers and non-lawyers claim authority when interpreting the Blake Lively–Justin Baldoni legal dispute on TikTok. We are particularly interested in how legal expertise, documentary evidence, narrative interpretation, and judgments of … Read more

New Network: Postdigital Narratives

Research on postdigital media is rapidly expanding across disciplines, yet current efforts remain scattered across institutions, methodological traditions, and geographical contexts. Early theorizations of the postdigital, including Cramer’s account of post-digital aesthetics (2014) and Jordan’s understanding of the postdigital as a creative modality marked by entanglement of digital and non-digital domains (2020), already articulated how … Read more

Student assistant vacancy (MA): Narrative Trust on Trial

We are looking for an MA-level student assistant (0.1 FTE) for the interdisciplinary project Narrative Trust on Trial: Gendered Credibility and Civic Resilience in the Digital Public Sphere, funded by TSHD seed money. The position runs from February 1 to December 1, 2026. Below you will find a description of the project and the tasks … Read more

Congres De Nieuwe Lezer in het Digitale Tijdperk

Op 10 December vindt het wetenschappelijk congres De Nieuwe Lezer in het Digitale Tijdperk van Stichting Lezen plaats. Online natuurlijk. Hoe ziet lezen eruit in het tijdperk van digitale media? Aan mij de eer een keynote te mogen geven over het lezen van literaire teksten in een aandachtseconomie. Hieronder mijn abstract. Technologische ontwikkelingen in ons … Read more