While the US is reeling from rampant fake online news, political movements in Europe are using the internet as a powerful democratic symbol to win elections. Will cyber-optimism or pessimism win?
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E-book sales are falling, even though many said they would “kill” print books. Computers and television were also supposed to spell the book’s demise. At one point, people even feared the phonograph.
How Hitler’s Germany, fascist Italy and other authoritarian states tried to win friends and influence people.
Le développement de la préférence manuelle et celui du langage sont étroitement liés.
New research has questioned the nature of humans’ impressive capacity to imitate.
No warp drives or worm holes required.
Politicians hate secrecy when in opposition but grow to love it when in power.
Kitchen Cabinet’s staging of “casual” food preparation with the nation’s most powerful people reproduces a culture of white Australian entitlement to master and consume any and every cultural product.
With three in four American voters using a smartphone, mobile devices are revolutionizing how political news is consumed – and reported.
Le procès de l’ex-dictateur tchadien Hissène Habré, qui s’est ouvert à Dakar début septembre, n’aurait pas eu lieu sans la mobilisation exceptionnelle d’associations locales et étrangères.
Eating less sugar isn’t enough to stop glucose-hungry cancer cells but new research points the way to how we might starve them to death.
Social media like Twitter could help improve politics by providing ‘government in public’.
French and African presidents have, in the past, entertained close relationships outside official channels. These often included illegitimate exchanges. But there are signs that this is changing.
Global cities must guarantee women safe access to public space. But in cities like New Delhi, this access is conditional and bound by moral discourse.
The commitment of African countries and the African Union in bringing the trial of former Chadian strongman Hissène Habré to fruition is unprecedented.
Spain’s fascist past has complicated the state’s relationship with anti-vaccination groups, now a rare disease has appeared again after 28 years.
Psychology can’t be used to diagnose and treat unemployment.
More women and a great ethnic mix but parliament still doesn’t fully reflect the British public.
The Tories have had the Human Rights Act in their sights for some time – but now they’ve got a chance to do take it out, they could end up living a nightmare.
The two epochal fights that will define Cameron’s second term are coming into view – and he’s starting to feel the pinch of a tiny majority.
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Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London
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Senior Practitioner Fellow in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Political Economy, Birkbeck, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Reader in Gender, Health and International Development, Birkbeck, University of London
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PhD researcher, Birkbeck, University of London
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Reader In Modern History, Department Of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Management, Birkbeck, University of London
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Emeritus Professor, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in International Business, Birkbeck, University of London
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Lecturer in Contemporary History, Birkbeck, University of London
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Lambert Lecturer in Environment (Applied Herpetology), Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
