'Napoleon voor dummies' is een erg slecht boek. Zonder geschiedskritische houding wordt een veel te rooskleurig beeld van de megalomane dictator opgehangen.
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The essence of a democratic process is the guarantee that citizens have free and easy access to public information. How can that be made possible and how can people learn to use that information critically? In earlier papers (Boef, et.al. 2008 and 2009), we discussed the relationship between public library, press and the free access to relevant information. In this paper, we concentrate on the role of journalistic media in making public information accessible for the citizen. Our starting point is the fact that the citizen, in shaping her or his position in relation to political and other societal issues needs fewer opinions of others, but more reliable information; verified and certified by professionals. That way, the citizen will become enabled to create and to ground his or her opinion. Based on that solid foundation, opinions and comments of others can be appreciated and rated. Finally, we will discuss the ongoing process of the disappearing of independent media and the negative effect on the democratic process, and hence the need for a new generation of Internet savvy civil journalists.
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Die obsessie van werkgeversorganisatie VNO-NCW met 'export, export, export' krijgt extremistische trekjes.
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Martien Visser propageert in zijn column een herbezinning op de rol van overheidsbedrijven in de energietransitie. Niet marktfalen, maar benutting van hun competenties zou de drijfveer moeten zijn hen in te schakelen.
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In The Age of Total Images, art historian Ana Peraica focuses on the belief that the shape of the planet is two-dimensional which has been reawakened in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the ways in which these ‘flat Earth’ conspiracy theories are symptomatic of post-digital image culture. Such theories, proven to be false both in Antiquity and Modernity, but once held to be true in the Medieval Period, have influenced a return to a kind of ‘New Medievalism’.
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Fulltext via link. Cultureel antropologe Ada Ruis is vertrouwd met Syrië. Ze bezocht het land regelmatig. Hier in Nederland volgt zij het leven van Layla, die als Syrische vluchtelinge samen met man en kinderen haar weg in Nederland zoekt.
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