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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Nigeria’s Twitter ban could backfire, hurting the economy and democracy
By Jeff Conroy-Krutz
Nigeria’s decision to suspend Twitter indefinitely could backfire for the government and cost the country economically in terms of new investments into...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Disinformation Is Rampant on Social Media – A Social Psychologist Explains the Tactics Used...
By H. Colleen Sinclair
Information warfare abounds, and everyone online has been drafted whether they know it or not.
Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish...
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...
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...
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...
Love Island: the Psychological Challenges Contestants – and Viewers – Could Face After the...
By Rachel Molitor
The finale of ITV’s Love Island was watched by millions of fans, many commenting live on social media as Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How China used the media to spread its COVID narrative — and win friends...
By Julia Bergin
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed prime real estate in the centre of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade:...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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?...
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...
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...
Mukbang, #Eatwithme and Eating Disorders on TIKTOK: Why Online Food Consumption Videos Could Fuel...
By Sijun Shen and Vivienne Lewis
You might have come across #EatWithMe videos on TikTok, which typically feature young women eating food while encouraging viewers...
