Why we designed a Game to help make Blockchain more Human — What The Block is a project which aims to engage people through design to learn and discover the potential of new technologies. …

This article is a collaboration between Thomas Schrum Nicolet, a philosophy graduate student, and Cy Rus Co-founder and Content Lead at Media Sifter Forget Bitcoin. Attention is the highest valued asset in the information age, giving rise to the attention economy that underpins the digital universe. The current incentives for…

Edward S. Herman has sadly passed away. He was one of the great critical voices speaking out while the media grew steadily into the conglomerated machine it is today. It is testament to his work that his ideas transcend generations. …

Two days ago, the Telegraph in the UK published a piece entitled “Cambridge University caves to student demands to ‘decolonise’ English curriculum”. The front page of the print edition featured an image leading to the article — a large inset picture of Cambridge University Student Union women’s officer Lola Olufemi…

Welcome to The SIFT, a regular analysis of media coverage by the team at Media Sifter. Each edition provides a wide range of perspectives on a particular story, exposing bias, sub-topics and agendas… The discussion of major weather events is now regularly accompanied by the persistent subtext of global warming…

Welcome to The SIFT, a weekly analysis of media coverage by the team at Media Sifter. Each edition provides a wide range of perspectives on a particular story, exposing sub-topics, undercurrents and bias. The shootings in Las Vegas last week prompted a huge amount of analysis, competing narratives, as well…

Welcome to the first edition of The SIFT, a weekly overview of the biggest stories by the team at Media Sifter. Each edition will follow the guiding principles that our platform is built around. Since there are a multiverse of perspectives on any given topic, we advocate a form of…

So last night I ended up on a bit of an old music YouTube spree. Like most of these things it started innocuously. I was harmlessly listening to Pink Floyd’s Brain Damage and writing some HTML. …

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