The rise of playlist politics
How digital choice has deepened the crisis of democracy.
ByFind here all of the New Statesman’s comment and analysis about social media and the digital age.
How 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.
ByIts slightly melancholic hilarity is hypnotic.
By“Stan culture” has reached new heights of invasive obsession, delusion and misogyny.
ByYour weekly dose of policy thinking.
ByAs a top-flight rugby referee, the English lawyer has faced some of the worst abuse imaginable. Now he is lobbying…
ByIn the social media age, there is no room for negativity – or even insightful critique.
ByAs far-right agitators Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson return to the platform, many users are seeking a new social media…
BySix years of debate have resulted in a job half done that fully tackles neither online harm nor invasion of…
ByLawsuits filed against Meta by more than 40 US states are the first of their kind against a social media…
ByCelebrating pain does not make it go away.
ByOn social media, users have two choices: to log off and look away, or stay and witness horrors and lies…
By“Kidulting” is the desire for familiarity and nostalgia, dressed up as a social response to hardship.
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