Causing a stink: reflections on my viral PhD
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Not all academics want their work to reach a public audience, but I do.
ByOnline, intimacy is imagined and mystery non-existent. It’s time to lose our smartphones and find ourselves again.
ByFor centuries, the news industry has been shaped by wealthy, powerful men. Have they also helped to destroy it?
ByRegulators are beginning to pursue well-known figures who may be pushing financial services and products illegally online.
ByThe Serial creator on ten years of the podcast that changed the medium forever.
ByWe know that being online can make us feel worse about ourselves – but we also do so to inflate…
ByIt used to be people would respect your personal space – now, it’s all a bit sinister.
ByFrom Countdown to unlikely revolutionary – the broadcaster and social media star is a political conundrum.
ByThe under-regulated platform lacks transparency. The Southport riots remind us why this matters.
ByWe are prisoners of a global online panopticon that knows more about us than we do.
ByThe former chief Crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal reveals how technology has both hurt and helped the state.
ByHow digital choice has deepened the crisis of democracy.
ByFrom family vlogging to kids TV, former child performers are speaking out about toxic workplaces, exploitation and abuse.
ByThe CEO of the Good Things Foundation on social broadband tariffs, tackling e-waste and improving people’s online literacy.
ByJonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight back.
ByRachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, told MPs that most headteachers already restrict the use of devices.
ByBig Tech must share user data so we can truly understand the risks of phone use for young people.
ByThe children’s rights campaigner on online safety, how the world of work has changed for women, and the courage of…
ByThe first woman on Facebook’s board – and the co-author of Lean In – on Hamas’s 7 October attack and…
ByNot all criticism of female-led trends is misogynistic.
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