TOD #62 Transfeminist Digital Care: A Holistic Approach for Tackling Online Gendered Violence

By Anielek Niemyjski, August 12, 2026

Transfeminist Digital Care: A Holistic Approach for Tackling Online Gendered Violence by Giulia Campaioli Technology-facilitated gender-based violence increasingly targets women and genderand sexually nonconforming people, collapsing the boundaries between online and offline abuse. Transfeminist Digital Care traces this continuum across Brazil, Spain, and Italy, examining how online misogyny is embedded in broader systems of patriarchal [...]

The Many Faces of Data Access: Legal and Policy Implications for Research

By Klaudia Orczykowska, April 13, 2026

Theory on Demand #61 The Many Faces of Data Access: Legal and Policy Implications for Research Edited by Jef Ausloos & Siddharth Peter de Souza This volume provides an interdisciplinary critique of regulation and, in the process, opens the ‘black box’ of technology companies to researchers. The anthology brings together scholars from across [...]

Imaginaries of Immutable Truth: The Cultural Politics of Blockchain

By Ruben Stoffelen, March 16, 2026

Theory on Demand #60 Imaginaries of Immutable Truth: The Cultural Politics of Blockchain Inte Gloerich Blockchain has often been presented as a solution to a crisis of truth. Promising immutability, objectivity, and trust without human judgment, it is framed as a technology capable of stabilising reality itself in an age of widespread uncertainty. [...]

Paritance: A Philosophical Investigation Behind Cognition and Simulation

By Klaudia Orczykowska, November 12, 2025

Theory on Demand #59 Paritance: A Philosophical Investigation Behind Cognition and Simulation By Henry Warwick This work advances the idea of Paritance—the acceptance of parity—as a fundamental operation of human cognition and culture. Warwick argues that the capacity to recognize a copy, model, or simulation as ontologically sufficient to its referent underlies cultural [...]

Out now: TOD #29: Good Data

By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 23, 2019

INC is happy to announce the publication of Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann. You can download and read the book here: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/. Thursday January 25th at 17:00 the book will be launched @ Spui25, see you there!

Two new publications: Online Courtship and In the Facebook Aquarium. Get your copy now!

By Miriam Rasch, July 10, 2015

Two new editions in our Theory on Demand-series are available now! Theory on Demand #15 was published a couple of weeks ago on the eve of the Facebook Farewell Party: Ippolita’s In the Facebook Aquarium. Theory on Demand #16 is our very first publication about a subject that affects the lives of millions around the [...]

Out now: Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media by Marianne van den Boomen

By Miriam Rasch, February 17, 2014

Read online, download the PDF or order a print copy at Lulu! Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media by Marianne van den Boomen is a material-semiotic inquiry into the constitutive role of metaphors in our daily encounters with computers and networks. While interface concepts such as desktop and windows are easily recognized [...]

Navigating Theory on Demand

By Miriam Rasch, April 8, 2016

Navigating Theory on Demand is a new way of reading, interacting and working with an e-publication. In collaboration with the PublishingLab a new reading platform has been developed for the Theory on Demand series to make the publications easily readable and browsable online. That means that INC publications will evolve once more: next to PDF, [...]