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23 Aug 2021 6 minute read

What can the digital age offer political life?

Indra Adnan argues that ‘cosmolocalism’ could be the key to a stronger, more hopeful democracy.

9 May 2021 6 minute read

Dreams of magic bullets

Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.

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12 Apr 2021 6 minute read

The space invaders

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks about our need for privacy in a digital age.

Conspiracy theorist graffiti alleging terrorism behind the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of 2013, pictured in Montreal. Credit: Cold, Indrid/Flickr

11 Apr 2021 2 minute read

How to talk with conspiracy theorists

Vanessa Baird offers some nifty tips in tackling a growing problem.

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5 Apr 2021 6 minute read

How we are gulled

Propaganda and media expert Peter Pomerantsev on tackling disinformation and the power of the digital...

7 Oct 2019 3 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

Should I delete my Facebook account?

Agony Uncle weighs in on whether to finally do away with social media.

6 May 2019 3 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

What if...we regulated digital technology for the public good?

Jacob Ohrvik-Stott from Doteveryone on how to get the job done.

28 Feb 2019 5 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Networked but commodified: digital labour in the remote gig economy

Research by Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham and others shows how gig economy platforms commodify...

Exploitation by tech firms and social media firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.

24 Dec 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

What if social media firms paid us?

Exploitation by tech firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.

9 Aug 2018 4 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

What should Twitter censor?

Forget shadow banning, we need to talk about holding private censors accountable, argues Jillian York.

7 Aug 2018 5 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Challenging exploitation in the gig economy

Global South workers in the digital platform-enabled gig economy are beginning to organize. Alex J. Wood...

18 Jun 2018 6 minute read

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The selfish giants

Laura Basu on how media ownership is getting more concentrated – and what to do about it.

16 Apr 2018 5 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

Facebook: the new censor’s office

Social media is usurping the role of the state argues Jillian York.

Blueprint for a better media

31 May 2018 3 minute read

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Blueprint for a better media

11 strategies for a better media. Vanessa Baird writes.

18 May 2018 5 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Will new laws tame the tech giants?

Are these new privacy laws the best solution? Mike Morel investigates.

humanitarian drones

31 Mar 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

Humanitarian drones and other anachronisms

Aid-by-drone, what’s not to like? New tech in the sector brings many problems, Nick Dowson explains.

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