De Ridderlijke Duitsche Orde Balije van Utrecht is een adellijke instelling die haar oorsprong kan terugvoeren op de kruistochten. Het voortbestaan over een zo lange periode is bepaald geen vanzelfsprekendheid. Twee eeuwen geleden kwam er bijna een einde aan. Napoleon hief de orde in 1811 op en confisqueerde haar bezittingen. Ruim vier jaar later maakte koning Willem I het besluit ongedaan en gaf een groot deel van het bezit terug. In dit boek beschrijft Renger de Bruin hoe de Balije van Utre...

The University of Groningen has been an international university since its foundation in 1614. The first professors formed a rich international community, and many students came from outside the Netherlands, especially from areas now belonging to Germany. Internationalization, a popular slogan nowadays, is therefore nothing new, but its meaning has changed over time. How did the University of Groningen grow from a provincial institution established for religious reasons into a top-100 univers...

Critical, broad and extensively researched, Understanding New Media remains the essential guide to the new media world, with expanded coverage of key topics, including digital participation, extreme pornography and online radicalization and engaging case studies on topics such as selfies, trolling and gaming addiction.

A short, innovative book that uses examples and evidence from around the world to analyse the concept of fake news and outline what we know about it, before proposes what we should do about this dangerous phenomenon.

Cutting-edge student exploration of what it means to live in a digital society. Introduces key concepts and research essential for digital media, social media and media/data and society modules.

Exploring questions of both exploitation and empowerment, Understanding Social Media provides a critical conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media.

Combining social and political theory, Media Solidarities explores social change, social justice and how the media shapes our understanding of ourselves. Using relevant and rich examples, this text investigates emerging forms of media solidarities in the digital era.

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.

Drawing on case studies from the nineteenth-century humanities (with occasional forays into physics, chemistry, and medicine), Paul shows that notions of virtue and vice were an evaluative discourse used across the academi...

This book asks why humans through history have covered their genitals and worn a cache-sexe. Does the cache-sexe merely provide protection, or is it an instrument to draw attention? Can the cache-sexe be used to stimulate certain thoughts? Why does not wearing a cache-sexe provoke shame one society but not in another? Are nudity and nakedness the same?

On his quest to answer these questions, the author takes the reader on a review of the anatomy of the female and male genitals and reflects ...

Na de Eerste Wereldoorlog leek de vaste grond onder de voeten van de adel in Duitsland en Nederland weg te vallen. Rond 1900 hadden de meeste adellijke families nog tot de elite behoord. Nu was die tijd voorgoed voorbij en moesten zij op zoek naar manieren om sociaal, politiek en cultureel te overleven in een zich snel moderniserende samenleving. In Einde van de adelscultuur? wordt deze thematiek in achttien artikelen vanuit een interdisciplinair en vergelijkend perspectief benaderd. Twee vra...