(Crossposted from the Polity blog.)
Filter bubbles and echo chambers have become very widely accepted concepts — so much so that even Barack Obama referenced the filter bubble idea in is farewell speech as…
It’s dead: the U.S. Library of Congress has officially pulled the plug on its project to create a full, complete archive of all of Twitter — past, present, and future. The Library will now only archive…
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…
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…
Thursday, last week, I attended a ‘career speed dating’ event at our local high school St John’s. The event was part of a two-day careers program for year ten students.
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…
Tim Highfield, Queensland University of Technology
Staffers for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton recently asked for an unflattering photo of him at a…
