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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

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

Trust in the Information Age (new Honors Program Tilburg University)

As of the academic year 2023-’24, TiU will start with its new Honors Program, which I will be coordinating. Are you an ambitious student at TiU, ready to take on an extra challenge? Do you wish to broaden your acquaintance with other scientific disciplines? Sign up for the Honors Program Trust in the Information Age. … 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