New Media researchers of the Digital Methods Initiative design methods and tools for repurposing online devices and platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Google) for research into social and political issues. Such work practice is integrated in the annual Winter and Summer schools, as well as the academic teaching of ‘digital methods’ within the New Media and Digital Culture Programme. DMI researchers, analysts, programmers and designers work on topics such as visual methodologies, app studies, the deep vernacular web, deplatforming, engines of order, web remembering and forgetting, programmed methods, and more.
4chan: from anarchic internet forum to breeding ground for the far right?
The internet forum 4chan is known for being one of the main purveyors of internet memes, but it also has a dubious reputation due to the large amount of offensive content that is posted there. In recent years, the ...