Bullying, Power and Control: Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories and How to Respond
By Daniel Jolley and Anthony Lantian
From vaccine uptake to violent extremism, conspiracy beliefs are linked to distrust in major institutions or powerful figures.
Research developed...
How the World Press Freedom Index Was Politicized – Long Before the New Cold...
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
For years, the press freedom index by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been widely quoted, even though its methodology is...
Dangerous Attractions and Revolutionary Sympathies: 5 Jane Austen Facts Revealed by Music
By Gillian Dooley
1. Jane Austen played and sang
Jane Austen played the piano from the age of about ten. Her family inherited some of her books...
Social media ‘likes’ change the way we feel about our memories – new research
By David Beer and Benjamin Jacobsen
Memories are often considered very personal and private. Yet, in the past few years, people have got used to...
Flawed human information processing, magic pipers and our conscience
By Bernard Yeung
Fierce competition between dominant countries leads to accusatory narratives, creating intense but dysfunctional crowd emotions. Flawed human behaviour allows a big gap...
COVID-19: We Must Use Behavioral Science to Communicate Better during the Delicate Reopening Period
By Carlos Scartascini, Déborah Martínez, and Ana María Rojas
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus has surpassed 5 million worldwide. However,...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
TikTok’s Secret Algorithm Is Its Greatest Strength – And Could Also Be Its Undoing
By Shweta Singh
I have a ten-year-old niece named Divya (not her real name) in rural northern India. Two years ago, I visited and she...
Championing Free Speech in the Social Media Capital of the World
By Michael Henry Yusingco
Social media-savvy Filipinos will be a huge factor in the 2022 elections. Despite the threat of online disinformation, political activism in social...
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...
Four Tips for Learning Language Through Film and TV
By Neophytos Mitsigkas
Films and TV shows can be great tools to help you become a more competent speaker of another language. By captivating your...
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...
Buzzfeed News: Sad Demise of a Clever, Innovative Site that Led the Way in...
By Sean Dodson
Buzzfeed News, once a shining star of digital journalism, has announced it will shut its award-winning news division for good, laying off about 60...
Journalists Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic Relied on Research That Had Yet to Be...
By Alice Fleerackers and Lauren A Maggio
A story on gender inequity in scientific research industries. A deep dive into the daily rhythms of the immune system....
What we can learn about risk from the COVID experience
By Geoff Mulgan
Life is risky and tends to end in death, which makes it easy to become paranoid – about the food you eat,...
Found in Translation: Multilingual conferences don’t need to face barriers to communication
If you’ve ever been in the audience for a conference or symposium, it’s likely you introduced yourself to fellow attendees at a break in...
Afrofuturism and its Possibility of Elsewhere: The Power of Political Imagination
By Lina Nasr El Hag Ali
Pay attention to the visions for the future put forward in today’s world by politicians, intellectuals and scientists:
The development...
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 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...
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...
NFT: Beyond the Hype, There is the Future
By Terence Tse, Andrea Maria Cosentino and Mark Esposito
Non-fungible tokens – much has been said and written about them, but what is the truth?...
Regulating Content Won’t Make the Internet Safer – We Have to Change the Business...
By Julia Hörnle
An upheaval of the law governing what can be published online is taking place in the shape of the online safety bill. The bill,...
Why every celebrity is suddenly obsessed with bitcoin
From A-list celebrities to social media personalities, the highly engaging nature of the bitcoin community is ever growing.
It wasn’t until recent years that the...
Myanmar: memes and mantras of a new generation of democracy protesters
By Richard Dolan
What do the internet memes Doge and Cheems, the Hollywood film franchise The Hunger Games, and a sachet of instant tea have in common? They...
Social Media: Teenage Girls with Perfectionist Tendencies Need to Take Extra Care – Here’s...
By Marianne Etherson and Thomas Curran
We all do it. Robot-like, we endlessly scroll through social media feeds. To an extent, we even go...
2021: a Grim Year for Journalists and Free Speech in an Increasingly Turbulent and...
By Dina Matar
Hundreds of journalists killed or arrested, rising numbers of female media workers targeted, floods of misinformation and hate speech and ineffectual or...
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...
Online Safety: What Young People Really Think About Social Media, Big Tech Regulation and...
By Emily Setty
Don’t say ‘just don’t go online’ because adults wouldn’t do that if something happened in the real world. If you got followed...
Beginners Guide to Pinterest Marketing
By Shristi Patni
The social landscape has shifted and so have the social media algorithms. Pinterest is the most effective marketing tool.
People here are more...
3 Reasons for Information Exhaustion – and What to Do About It
By Mark Satta
An endless flow of information is coming at us constantly: It might be an article a friend shared on Facebook with a...
Nobel for Obfuscation
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
Last weekend, Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler, got a Nobel Peace prize for her “courageous fight for freedom of expression.” In...
Gender washing: seven kinds of marketing hypocrisy about empowering women
By Rosie Walters
At a time of so much focus on how women are held back and treated unfairly, corporations spend multiple millions telling us...
Beyond The Story: BTS Biography is a Humanising, Literary Portrayal of K-pop’s World-leading Stars
By Jenessa Williams
In a climate of ever-increasing competition, it’s a real feat when any band makes it to their tenth anniversary bigger than ever....
What You Need to Know About Tim Cook and Facebook
"If a business is built on misleading users on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve...
Tina Turner: An Immense Talent with a Voice and Back Catalogue That Unites Disparate...
By Freya Jarman
On a few rare occasions (often at the end of a night), I’ve confided to my friends that Tina Turner was one...
Local Journalism: Why a Tiny News Operation Could Inspire a Different Approach and Is...
By Kate Heathman
It started as a one-person operation, funded by personal savings and based in a bedroom, with a mission to provide a new...
Is There a Way to Pay Content Creators Whose Work Is Used to Train...
By Brendan Paul Murphy
Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery, or theft? Perhaps it comes down to the imitator.
Text-to-image artificial intelligence systems such as...
Thinking of Breaking up with Twitter? Here’s the Right Way to do it
By Daniel Angus and Timothy Graham
After a few chaotic weeks it’s clear Elon Musk is intent on taking Twitter in a direction that’s at odds with...