On Friday 15 May 2020, Marc Tuters, Sal Hagen, Stijn Peeters, Emillie de Keulenaar, and Daniël de Zeeuw of OILab took part in a virtual conference conference hosted by King’s College London’s Centre for Digital Culture. Titled “Memes: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”, the conference features the following OILab talks: 10:47 – Introduction by […]

Marc Tuters published a blog post on The Conversation touching on the spread of online conspiracies, algorithms, and fringe subcultures. The text provides an overview of current literature as well as a range of his and OILab’s work. Read the article here.

Marc Tuters published a text on Europe Now outlining activity on the “bottom of the Web” and providing an overview of OILab’s ongoing work

New article in New Media & Society on political memes, Mouffe’s framework of antagonism, and the triple parentheses meme.

Earlier in 2019, Marc Tuters gave a lecture at the conference “A Century of Radical Right Extremism: New Approaches”, hosted by the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right in partnership with Richmond, the American University in London. The talk touches on the concept of the Deep Vernacular Web and dynamics of subcultural antagonistic expressions […]

Sal Hagen of OILab appeared in the Dutch national news on 5 August 2019 to briefly touch on the horrific shootings in the United States, in specific to discuss the imageboard 8chan. Listen to the NPO Radio 1 fragment here (click “18:00 – 18:30” and go to 9:28). Watch the NOS Journaal clip here from […]