Mark Boukes

Journalism & Media • Associate Professor of Communication Science @UvA_ASCoR • @NWO_SSH Veni, Vidi & XS • Advice council @omroepNTR

[Mark Boukes @MarkBoukes]

Last week, @NWONieuws announced that I'm among the lucky awardees of the #Vidi grant for my project "Safeguarding Journalism’s Future in the Digital Age" that I can work on for a period of 5 years! So, happy! /1

[Fore4 @fore4_js]

Imagine you bought a TV that was marketed as a streaming TV, ie Netflix only for said TV maker to disable the function to do so a few years later. That’s what @bose did with their #soundtouch #neverbuybose #fail

[Mark Boukes @MarkBoukes]

@leica1990 How did you fix it?

[Mark Boukes @MarkBoukes]

@RhwDenessen @BerniePutters @Bose Is er een manier om het nog aan de praat te krijgen?

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Pieter Omtzigt @PieterOmtzigt]

Opinie: Hou DigiD uit Amerikaanse handen nu het nog kan

Betoog ik samen met @PasschierReijer , Jesse Six Dijkstra, Marleen Stikker, Ferd Grapperhaus, Brenno de Winter, en José van Dijck

(Geef de Amerikanen geen mogelijkheid om hele NL samenleving lam te leggen)

https://t.co/q9vCZI5Cp3

[International Communication Association @icahdq]

Interested in starting an ICA Chapter in your country? ICA members can now propose new Regional Chapters by 1 April 2026. Join our informational webinar on 19 March 2026 (07:00–08:00 Washington, D.C. time) to learn more. 🔗 https://t.co/vAMBPfq7ER

[Manya Koetse @manyapan]

The anti-American AI video "The Bloody Arsenal" was posted by China Daily earlier this week. Glad they included the "this is AI-generated" disclaimer😅

Text: "On February 28, the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran. Behind these large-scale attacks, the coins of the 'arsenal of freedom' are clinking as profits soar. If this is what is called “peace,” then peace lies hidden in the ruins of brutal war, written into blood-stained arms orders."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BARTIROMO: Patriotism is spreading to on air broadcasts. Mr Chairman, you announced your Pledge America Campaign, encouraging broadcasters to air more pro-America content, such as starting each day with the Star Spangled Banner or Pledge of Allegiance. Tell us more

FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: We're in the midst of a great revival. President Trump is truly the political colossus of our time

[Mark Boukes @MarkBoukes]

Does “mass communication” still exist — and if so, what should it mean today?

In this Forum for @jmcquarterly, we reflect on that question: "The Necessary Evolution of Mass Communication Research in a Fragmenting Media Landscape."

Open-access: https://t.co/iyUfgUm5eE

[Michel Abbink @sportzeloot]

Meeste gouden medailles Zomerspelen 2024 + Winterspelen 2026:

VS: 51
China: 44
Nederland: 25
Japan: 25
Frankrijk: 24
Noorwegen: 22
Italië: 22
Australië: 21
Duitsland: 19
Groot-Brittannië: 17

[Michael de Adder @deAdder]

Democracy dies in darkness

[Yongliang Liu @YongliangLiuLeo]

Our new article is now published in Comm Research, with @MarkBoukes @Hameleers_M , Hanqin Li, Huitao Li, @qinganzhou.

We reviewed 70 years of research on news media trust, examining how trust has been conceptualized and measured over time.

Read more 👇
🔗https://t.co/mlsrURPb7P

[krista @kristabellerina]

Some of you never had to pay 10 cents to send a text message and it shows.

[Ewoud Kieft @EwoudKieft]

Als je expres het voorpagina-artikel over Iran afdekt ben je wel kwaadaardige nep-ophef aan het zaaien hoor. @umarebru

[Tom-Jan Meeus @tomjanmeeus]

Oud-Fox News anchor: Fox News’ uitzendingen over Trumps operatie in Venezuela leek wel Russische propaganda

[Mihai Simion @faustocoppi60]

This is in my opinion, the cycling photo of the year, taken by Alen Milavec at the finish of Strade Bianche.👑📷 The Cannibal Tadej entering victorious in of the most beautiful arenas in the world, Siena's Piazza del Campo. A masterpiece.
What's yours?

#FotoCiclistaDelAño

[Sven Butter @svenbutter]

En altijd als ik een schreeuwer zie
met een alternatief voor de democratie

denk ik: jouw paradijs, hoeveel ruimte is daar voor Ben Ali Libi, de goochelaar.

Voor Ben Ali Libi, die kleine schlemiel,
hij rust in vrede, God hebbe zijn ziel.

[Marijn Schrijver @schrijver]

Ik vind dit soort filmpjes zo'n onderschatting van onze jongeren

[International Communication Association @icahdq]

📢 Call for Applications: Editor(s) for the Journal of Communication (JOC) 📢
DEADLINE: 31 January 2026
Full details about the journal and application process can be found here 🔗 https://t.co/G0wN24az7u

[Maarten Keulemans @mkeulemans]

Doodeng.

Multimiljardair Musk wil Wikipedia "zuiveren" en gaat dus maar een eigen versie van de werkelijkheid oprichten, met polarisatie-aanjaag-ai Grok.

Heel 1984, om met @Verkoulen te spreken.