Looking back on convergence culture

It’s weird and slightly tiring to realise that it’s now ten years since Henry Jenkin’s book…

Waiving (hash)flags: Some thoughts on Twitter hashtag emoji

There’s a new Ghostbusters film coming out in July, which has already attracted a lot of coverage for various reasons, not least the response of male 30-somethings unable to accept the idea of four female Ghostbusters. This…

Our collective response to Bowie’s death is as real as it gets

Governing the Internet: The rule of law in decentralized regulation

How do we want our shared social…

A First Draft of the Present: Why We Must Preserve Social Media Content

History, they say, is written by the winners — but more concretely, it is written on the basis of the records that survive and are accessible to historians. For most of human history, these have recorded the…

Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber?

The recent emergence and success of political movements that appear to be immune to any factual evidence that contradicts their claims — from climate change denialists through Brexiteers to the ‘alt-right’, neo-fascist groups supporting Donald Trump — has reinvigorated…