User:Megan Hoogenboom/overidentification

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Over-identification

When I heard about over-identification I immediately thought about politics. Politicians often are over-identified, in two ways: They are public persons, so they have to have a clear identity, and their work is also over-identified by themselves and by the public. Politicians lead a country (in a centralized democratic society), like the Netherlands.
I will follow 3 different politicians: Geert Wilders, Ronald Plasterk and Agnes Kant.(Ronald Plasterk is the minister of education, culture and science and Geert Wilders and Agnes Kant are in the opposition. That will not be a problem for my coding)
I'll keep track on how many times they are in the news (a certain paper, the 8 o'clock news, nos politics).
In the NRC Next of this week, there were 5 articles where one of the politicians were mentioned in, so not there party only there name. None of the articles involved Plasterk, one of them involved Kant and 3 of them Wilders. Does this give a clear view on who is more important or who is more popular than the other. No, I don't think so. It is a typical score though. I did expect more articles involving all of them. I made a few visuals for this weeks score.



I am fascinated by imaginary/concept/utopia/dystopia city's, like Joep van Lieshout's slavecity. And than especially the dystopia's, sf-city's and urban decay. These dystopia's are not only mapped there are ones that have complete governments, stories, concepts.

  • Map: Gotham city
  • Movie: Equilibrium (this movie is about a city/country that is forced to be an utopia, but it is so strict in it's (weird) rules, that you can also call it a dystopia.
  • Movie: Metropolis by Fritz lang, 1927. This can still look like a dystopia, even though it was made in 1927.