Depop Sale: Fashion Retailers Must Move Faster on Sustainability – or They Will Be...
By Elaine L Ritch
The news that Depop – Generation Z’s favourite app for selling and buying used clothing – had been sold to Etsy for...
The Genesis Prize Foundation’s Unique Role in Global Jewish Philanthropy
The Genesis Prize Foundation remains at the forefront of efforts to nurture a proud, dynamic, thriving Jewish community worldwide.
The Genesis Prize Foundation is reshaping...
Spiritual Tourism: Tourists First, Tour Operators Second, And Destinations Third
By Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” —Saint Augustine
With a growing number...
America’s first vampire was Black and Revolutionary – it’s Time to Remember Him
By Sam George
In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published The Vampyre: A Tale by Lord Byron. Notice of its publication...
Beatrix Potter’s Famous Tales Are Rooted in Stories Told by Enslaved Africans – But...
By Emily Zobel Marshall
Peter Rabbit, the cute and wily bunny who wears a bright blue jacket, is the best-selling creation of English author Beatrix...
Ancient Amazons: Warrior Women in Myth and History
By Adrienne Mayor
In Greek myth, Amazons were fierce women of exotic lands who gloried in hunting and war. The greatest Greek heroes, Heracles and...
How AI is Hijacking Art History
By Sonja Drimmer
People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret.
Or, at the very least, media outlets have come to realize that news...
Curious Kids: Why is Our Dog So Cute?
By Deborah Wells
Why is our dog Martha so cute? – Sam, aged nine, UK
Dogs are one of the most popular pets in the world...
How to Help Artists and Cultural Industries Recover from the COVID-19 Disaster
By Louis-Etienne Dubois, David Gauntlett, and Ramona Pringle
To say that 2020 has been rough for the cultural and creative industries is an understatement. More...
The Future of Film
By Holly Willis
Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the 20th century, is in the midst of exciting transformation as the tools, practices, venues...
Whataboutism: What It is and Why It’s Such a Popular Tactic in Arguments
By Benjamin Curtis
Whataboutism is an argumentative tactic where a person or group responds to an accusation or difficult question by deflection. Instead of addressing...
NFTs Are Much Bigger Than an Art Fad – Here’s How They Could Change...
By James Bowden and Dr. Edward Thomas Jones
Sotheby’s has become the latest establishment name in art to dive into NFTs (non-fungible tokens) through its...
Tokyo 2020: Does the Paralympics Empower Disabled People?
By Christopher Brown
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics are being used as a catalyst for a new global campaign aimed at removing discrimination faced by disabled people. Entitled...
US Election 2020: How the Rival Candidates Have Used Music in Their Campaigns
By Adam Behr
A 74-year-old man dancing half-heartedly and without much rhythm to the Village People’s YMCA while a host of other people complain about...
The Seven Best Books of 2023 Reviewed by Our Experts
By Leighan M Renaud, Andrew Dix, Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, Florian Stadtler, Jane O’Connor, Madeleine S. Killacky, and Simon Potter
We have covered a lot of new...
Celebrities, Influencers, Loopholes: Online Gambling Advertising Faces an Uncertain Future in Australia
By Gianluca Di Censo and Paul Delfabbro
Sports betting is most popular among Australian young people than any other age group, and this trend has only increased...
Culture, Power and Applied Anthropology in a Corporate Setting
By Amitai Touval
Businesses rely on experts to intervene in situations in which organisational culture intersects with problems of power and control. While anthropologists are...
Understanding the Sustainable Lifestyle
By Steven Cohen
A sustainable environment and economy are possible only if they provide support to a sustainable lifestyle. This is a way of life...
On the Symphony of AI and Humans in the Work Context
By David De Cremer
“AI and human employees will form the teams of the future and will have to be led in such ways that...
Why Denmark dominates the World Happiness Report rankings year after year
By Marie Helweg-Larsen
This year’s World Happiness Report again ranks Denmark among the top three happiest of 155 countries surveyed – a distinction that the country has...
Coronavirus culture: the questions social scientists are asking about our new day-to-day life
By Alan Bradshaw
Scientific analysis of COVID-19 is dominated by medical and pharmaceutical questions of vaccines and risk minimisation. But meanwhile, social scientists must track the emerging social...
The Rationality of Risk, Part 3: Rollercoasters, Burning Ships and the Hero’s Journey
By Christopher Surdak
In part three of the series on The Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak gives some guidance on making friends with risk. Loss,...
Sound as Popular Culture
By Jens Gerrit Papenburg and Holger Schulze
Sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analysed in an innovative way. From the roar...
Lockdown, quarantine and self-isolation: how different COVID restrictions affect our mental health
By Dr Tom Heffernan
In the year since the city of Wuhan, China, went into the world’s first coronavirus lockdown, we have all had to...
The Side Effects of Culture Change: How to Anticipate and Manage Them
When a company transitions to a new culture, everyone, from those who are leading the change to those who are experiencing it, can have...
Tourism and the Modern World
By Eric G. E. Zuelow
Tourism is among the largest industries in the world and many people assume that humans engaged in leisure travel from...
Tattoos Have a Long History Going Back to the Ancient World – and also...
By Allison Hawn
While most of us would likely care to forget the pandemic as soon as is possible, a few have opted for a...
Amapiano Awards: South Africa’s Dance Music Scene Spreads its Joy Across the World
By Sanya Osha
In 2019 amapiano began to dominate South Africa’s dance floors to such an extent that, by 2021, the first South African Amapiano Awards were held to mark...
Can You Truly Own Anything in the Metaverse? A Law Professor Explains How Blockchains...
By João Marinotti
In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this...
Confucian Culture and the International Trend of Legalising Same-Sex Marriage
By Karen Lee
Steeped in centuries-old Confucian family order, China appears to be an unlikely place for same-sex marriage. A growing sense of activism, however,...
What Are We Doing Today to Prevent Our Company’s Next Ethical Disaster?
By David De Cremer
Imagine that you are walking past a restaurant where you clearly see that the condition of the electric wiring in the...
From Taylor Swift to BTS: Grammys 2021 Was a Much-needed Spectacle of Artistic Glory
The 2021 Grammy Awards held last March 14 was, by all means, unconventionally spectacular on all accounts. From showcasing household names like Taylor Swift...
What psychology can tell us about why some people don’t wear masks – and...
By Helen Wall, Alex Balani and Derek Larkin
While the world is eagerly waiting for COVID-19 vaccines to bring an end to the pandemic, wearing...
Surprising ways that games challenge how people think about themselves and the world
By Matthew Whitby
The Beginner’s Guide is a narrative video game with no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person...
Chinese Philosophy Excluded from American Research Universities
By Brian Bruya
Is Chinese philosophy being ignored by American universities, and if so why? Brian Bruya, Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University, discusses...
Sinead O’Connor Was Once Seen as a Sacrilegious Rebel, but Her Music and Life...
By Brenna Moore
When news broke July 26, 2023, that the gifted Irish singer Sinead O’Connor had died, stories of her most famous performance circulated amid...
Design, When Everybody Designs
Social innovation and design for a new economy
By Ezio Manzini
In a fast and profoundly changing world everybody designs. The result of this diffuse designing...
How Frozen Became the Catalyst for Disney’s Shift from Male-centric Tales
By Dr. Stephen Langston
The landscape of animated musical films has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. Male storylines, once the hallmark of the...
Decrypting The Aspiring Indian Low-Income Consumer
By Glyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson and Ambi Parameswaran
In this article, Glyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson and Ambi Parameswaran highlight the common misconceptions held by companies...
The Culture Map – Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done...
By Erin Meyer
Cultural differences lead to confusion, misunderstanding and needless conflict in the business world. In this article, Erin Meyer discusses the Culture Map,...
Esports: How the Struggling Hospitality Industry could Capitalise on this Massive Business
By Jamie Thompson and Babak Taheri
During the pandemic, the sporting world ground to a halt. Global events such as the Olympics, Formula 1 racing,...
Four-day week: How Workplaces can Successfully Establish It
By Rita Fontinha and James Walker
Many workplaces have been experimenting with different types of flexible working arrangements for years now, but the pandemic has...
How Coronavirus Might Have Changed TV Viewing Habits for Good – New Research
By Catherine Johnson and Lauren Dempsey
As new social restrictions are imposed to combat the spread of COVID-19, it will be no surprise if people...
Selling Illusory Joy: Emotions, Big Data and the Coming Retail Renaissance
By Christopher Surdak and Ed King
Today the world is awash in massive amounts of context-rich data. Whether it’s GPS position information, social media posts,...
Keeping Resilience in VUCA era: The Organization Should Learn from the Water’s Wisdom
By Weixu Ding and Jianhua Mao
The COVID-19 outbreak started at the end of 2019 that has hurt the world's economy, cultural exchanges, people's healthy...
Spirituality and Business: From a profit maximizing model to a social economic DNA
By Sharda Nandram
Due to globalization several parts of the world are influencing each other, thus leading to the incorporation of Eastern and Western thoughts...
Forget Work-Life Balance – It’s All About Integration in the Age of COVID-19
By Dr. Melissa Wheeler and Dr. Asanka Gunasekara
It wasn’t the usual end to our staff meeting.
This time, the head of our university department wrapped...
The Rise Of The Imagination Economy
By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes and Suning An
The physical constraints of distance and geography shape how we live, work, produce and consume. But advances...
How to cook Christmas dinner in the most environmentally friendly way possible
By Dr Ximena Schmidt, Dr Christian Reynolds and Sarah Bridle
By now, most of us are aware that much of the food we eat, in...
Long Decisions Exploring New Ways to Decide What to Do
By Michael Mainelli and Robert Ghanea-Hercock
Today, with a smart phone, any individual on the planet has access to the power of most recorded knowledge....
Why Guanxi Matters in Business Relationships with China
By Bang Nguyen and David De Cremer
Business relationships between China and Europe have existed for quite some time and with the a renewed focus...
Neither Wanting Nor Seeking Truth
By Bruce Fein
The media brims with false, misleading or distorted news. But it is not primarily their fault. Their largely segmented audiences covet...
What Assets Must Go Through Probate in Sonoma County?
Many folks would claim that navigating the complexities of estate planning and probate can be a huge hassle, especially in specific locales such as...
Is a Languages Strategy Essential for Britain’s Economy to Prosper Post Brexit?
By Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Britain hopes to draw on the trade relationships of the former Commonwealth to grow its economy post Brexit. Could this place too...
Internationalising Media Studies
By Daya Thussu
For hundreds of years the West has dominated the world of Media Studies, but Daya Thussu is about to prove to us...
What is a No Deposit Casino Bonus and where to find it in 2021
A no deposit bonus is exactly how it sounds, it’s a bonus you can claim without having to make a deposit. To put it...
How Organisational Culture Affects Business Performance in Nigeria
By Anthony Abiodun Eniola, PhD
The small and medium scale enterprise (SME) sector plays a critical economic role in both developed and developing countries. It...
Food and Fuel Excess: The Dark Side of America’s Exceptionalism
By Robert Paarlberg
By a wide margin, the United States leads the rich countries of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) both in...
The Future of Flight in a Net-Zero-Carbon World: 9 Scenarios, Lots of Sustainable Biofuel
By Candelaria Bergero and Steve Davis
Several major airlines have pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury to fight climate change. It’s an ambitious goal that will require...
Cannabis: the problem with defining products around THC content
By Jessica Steinberg
Cannabis policy is undergoing a global revolution. Around the world, laws are changing. In the US, there are now 15 states in which cannabis...
How Live Dealer Games Are Changing the Online Casino Experience
The online casino world is constantly evolving and one of the biggest game changers in recent years has been the rise of live dealer...
James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Europe – and Inspired Scores of Copycat European...
By Rui Lopes
Last year’s James Bond blockbuster, No Time to Die, is permeated by a sense of closure. For one thing, the ironically titled...
How British Imperial History Shaped Charles Iii’s Coronation Ceremony
By Sean Lang
The coronation ceremony Charles III is about to go through reflects how monarchy has developed since Saxon times, but it still carries...
Slow Fashion: An Alternative Concept to Common Production and Consumption Practices in Fashion
By Leah Marie Gonse and Michael Palocz-Andresen
The fashion industry operates on a mostly unsustainable business model that focuses mainly on growth of sales and...
How to Heal the Open Wounds of Electoral Anxiety and Loss – Advice from...
By Tereza Capelos
Settling the winner of the US election isn’t simple. As the ballots are counted in the battleground states, many people may be in distress,...
Channel 4’s Shocking Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat Owes Much to Swift and...
By Susan Fritzmaurice
There wasn’t much advertising ahead of the release of Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat, which was touted as a documentary about the...
Five Innovations that Could Shape the Future of Rail Travel
By Saikat Dutta
What will the future of public transport look like? The major projects being planned today, such as the UK’s HS2 high-speed rail...
The Metaverse Isn’t Here Yet, But it Already Has a Long History
By Professor Tom Boellstorff
Nattie’s metaverse romance began with anonymous texting. At first “C” would admit only to living in a nearby town. Nattie eventually...
How Centuries of Self-Isolation Turned Japan into One of the Most Sustainable Societies on...
By Dr. Hiroko Oe
At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers feared that Christianity – which had recently been introduced to the southern parts...
Global business travel will not be killed off by coronavirus – new research
By Kieran Michael Conroy, Anthony McDonnell, and Stefan Jooss
Global business travel has largely ground to a halt during the pandemic. Experts have been raising the alarm...
How International Trade can Unlock the Potential of the Cultural Economy in Developing Countries
By Jen Snowball
There is growing interest in the creative economy in emerging markets in terms of its impact on employment and economic growth, as...
Frozen’s 10th Anniversary: How the Musical Reignited Our Love for Sing-Along Cinema
By Malcolm Cook
Ten years ago a musical phenomenon hit our screens, one which captured the hearts of a large and diverse audience and whose...
TableTop and Covid19 – It’s No Longer An Easy Game!
By Uwe Eickert and Boris Liedtke
The raging pandemic has swiftly shaken up many business models around the globe thereby creating a number of instant winners such as...
Are Ghosts Real? A Social Psychologist Examines the Evidence
By Barry Markovsky
Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts – a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died.
In a 2021 poll of...
The Importance of Art in the Time of Coronavirus
By Louis Netter
People are dying, critical resources are stretched, the very essence of our freedom is shrinking – and yet we are moved inward,...
The Cultural Sector Needs Support in Order to Benefit from a Digital Remake
By Ricard Gil
The COVID-19 crisis has dealt a massive blow to the cultural and creative sectors in Canada and around the world. The impact was broad and...
Munich – The Edge of War: Women in Historical Films are Too Often Unrealistic
By Julie Gottlieb
In September 1938, Britain, Germany, Italy and France met in Munich as a new European war loomed. Hitler was demanding to annex...
The Six Most Overrated Factors In Getting Rich
By Dr. Rainer Zitelmann
Oprah Winfrey came from a simple background, inherited nothing, didn’t study at an elite university, and probably only bought stocks long...
Oscars: More International Films are Nominated Than Ever – Here’s Why
By Georgia Thomas Parr
The Academy Awards have not fared well in recent years. The Oscars’ dwindling reputation has been noted by many in light...
Filming Genocide
By William Guynn
Film, with its tangible relationship to the world it “captures”, can offer us, in flashes of insight, an immediate and unexpected access...
Emoji: New Language or Trend?
By Marcel Danesi
As societies change and grow, language too, evolves. In this article, the author analyses the rise of the emoji as a means...
Sitting All Day is Terrible for Your Health – Now, a New Study Finds...
By Keith Diaz
The big idea
To reduce the harmful health effects of sitting, take a five-minute light walk every half-hour. That’s the key finding of a...
How 9/11 Changed Cinema
By Dr. Maria Flood and Michael C. Frank
One of the most common responses to the events of September 11 2001, both among witnesses on...
What Americans Can Learn from Other Cultures About the Language of Gratitude
By Jeremy David Engels and Elaine Hsieh
Families and friends traditionally gather to express gratitude during this time of year. Many also participate in acts...
Why it Makes Good Business Sense for Your Employer to Look After your Mental...
By Claire de Oliveira
In any given year, about one in five people will experience a mental health problem or illness. Fortunately, many employers have gradually come...
How The Philosophy Behind The Japanese Art Form Of Kintsugi Can Help Us Navigate...
By Ella Tennant
In our 20s and 30s, there can be immense pressure to measure up to the expectations of society, our families, our friends...
Winning the Talent War in Emerging Markets: Women are the Answer
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid
As global companies try to harness the growth and possibilities of emerging markets, the extraordinary energy, ambition and...
Duped, Guilty Pleasure, Irony, and Camp: Consuming Fake News
By Roscoe Scarborough
Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with self-proclaimed “bad TV” watchers about their media consumption, this research examines how people consume fake news....
Naturally Selected? Clues about Leadership from the Animal World
By Mark van Vugt
When thinking of a “successful executive”, we often use the description of an “alpha”, most of the time a male one,...
What Is the ‘Nine-Dash Line’ and What Does It Have to Do With the...
By Donald Rothwell
The new Barbie film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is set for imminent release. But according to Vietnam’s state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper the...
How to Enjoy a Digital Detox Over Christmas
By Brad McKenna and Wenjie Cai
It is not surprising that many of us have been suffering from digital overload during the pandemic, and taking care of...
Popular Culture and Social Justice: Desegregating Popular Culture for Equal Representation
By Yuya Kiuchi
Popular culture reflects who we are. Today, so-called “mainstream” popular culture excludes the minority population and their voices. In order to truly...
Why Do We Work So Hard?
By Hugh Cunningham
Despite mid-twentieth-century forecasts of ever-increasing leisure time, we have instead seen the growth of a long hours culture. Below, Hugh Cunningham explores...
Popular Music as an Avenue for Coping and Mental Health Awareness
Popular music is a collective term for music that has a huge appeal to a large-scale audience from around the world. It has a...
We Will Not Stop Talking about Racism
By Lawrence Ware and Rebecca Martinez
Many white people want to stop talking about racism. Consciousness implies action, and that kind of talking about race,...
Our Digital Culture Threatened by Loss
By Oliver Grau
Media art is the art form that uses the technologies that fundamentally change our societies, and plays an important role in the...
A Gen Z Visionary: How Art and Advocacy are Redefining the Future of Community?
What happens when an artist sees policy as an art of empathy, and the stage as a platform for raising voice? For Sue Zhao,...
Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
By Barry M. Katz
Barry Katz’s book Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design sets out to answer the question of how “design”...
The X Factor: how the star-making formula show lost its shine
By Mike Jones
The UK channel ITV has announced that it has no plans to continue The X Factor. In its 17 years on the air, the...
Oscars 2024: How a Dress Goes From Haute Couture Design to Red Carpet
By Luana Carcano
Designing an outfit for a celebrity to wear at the Oscars is often seen as a dream opportunity for fashion designers.
Yet, embarking on this journey...