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Docentontwikkelteam Digitale Geletterdheid (2025)

Docentontwikkelteam: Literatuuronderwijs en digitale geletterdheid (schooljaar 2024-2025) Onder begeleiding van dr. Siebe Bluijs & dr. Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University) Wat kun je in je literatuurlessen doen met fenomenen als Instagrampoëzie of #booktok? Kun je leerlingen inzichten laten opdoen over literair auteurschap aan de hand van ChatGPT? Hoe kun je jeugdliteratuur inzetten om cyberpesten … Read more

Announcement conference ADDA5: Digital Infrastructures (May 2025)

ADDA5 | digital infrastructures | Mindlabs Tilburg | May 21-23, 2025   If the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tech underscores anything, it’s the imperative to analyze discourse through its material dimensions of platformed interfaces, cultures, ideologies, and – of course – algorithms. ADDA5 aims to unite scholars interested in the social production of … Read more

Telling Stories, Telling Lies: NWO Open Competition SSH XS Grant

Next academic year (2023-’24), I will be working on a research project for which I have received an open competition grant from NWO. It is titled Telling Stories, Telling Lies: The Role of Narrative Competence in the Detection and Interpretation of Online Misinformation. In this study, I map out the narrative characteristics of online misinformation and design a measuring instrument for ‘narrative competence’: knowledge of stories and the skills to analyze them. With a large-scale survey study among students, I will investigate whether narrative competence helps in detecting and interpreting online misinformation. The study will provide insight into how we can counteract misinformation through literature education. Below, you can read my full proposal.

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RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2023

This year’s RMeS Winter School (26-27 January 2023) will be organised by Tilburg University. For the latest edition of the winter school we invite researchers to explore, analyse, and (above all) celebrate the frayed edges of digital media culture – glitches, blurred boundaries, major or minor transgressions – and the creative potential of these ostensibly … Read more

OSL Ravenstein Winter School New Perspectives on the Novel: Histories, Forms, Representations

Utrecht, 18-20 January 2023 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo) Caroline Levine (Cornell University) Richard Jean So (McGill University) Although the novel has been declared dead many times (e.g. Gasset (1925), Benjamin (1930) Sukenick (1969)), we have never officially buried it. As a form of narrative prose it continues to engage writers, readers, publishers, … Read more

Inspiratiedag Digitale Literatuur

Kom ook naar de Inspiratiedag Digitale Literatuur op 13 september in de Bibliotheek LocHal! Met gedichtenmachines, VR, augmented reality, instagram novels, workshops, korte colleges, een discussie over de toekomst van digitale literatuur, en een openingslezing door mij. Hier meld je je gratis aan.

TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium: Fact & Fiction, Trust & Distrust

On June 29 and 30 the second edition of our TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium took place, organized by representatives from all departments of our School (Giovanni Cassani, Frederic Tomas, Inge van de Ven, and Sander Verhaegh). The program consisted of four keynotes and ten paper presentations, and was financed by THSD and Netherlands Institute for … Read more