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Smaller live music venues are facing serious challenges to keep their doors open since the pandemic and the cost of living crisis. So is it time for proper financial intervention?
State surveillance of citizens is growing all over the world, but it is a fact of daily life in China. People are developing mental tactics to distance themselves from it.
Whether LGBTQIA+, or sceptical of romantic love as the best foundation for their family, many are looking to the Internet to find co-parenting partners with whom to raise a child.
WeWork’s bankruptcy casts doubt on hype that the boundaries between physical space and computer technology are dissolving.
Rural women in Nigeria circumvent patriarchy to make decisions on their healthcare.
Far from a touchy-feely community, research shows online platforms such as Airbnb tend to strengthen users’ narcissism and class biases.
Conspiracy theories may be baseless, but they can have a range of harmful real-world consequences, including spreading lies, undermining trust in media and government and inciting violence.
Twitter has been officially rebranded to X, in a process many would deem chaotic. But we can still try to make sense of it.
Many older people tend to trim their social circles and focus their social efforts on family and close friends. New research on our close primate relatives may help explain why.
Lateral reading, self-nudging and a persistent refusal to feed the trolls are some of the ways one can better manage information.
Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
A new experimental task reveals distinct styles of engagement on social networking sites associated with different perceptions of social connectedness.
While other social media giants are floundering, this one is doing rather well.
The energy consumption of Internet use has multiplied by a thousand-fold in 20 years. So how can we better visualise our energy ‘spending’ and reduce carbon emissions?
Research on Hurricane Harvey found that flood insurance and strong social networks were key factors in determining how quickly people recovered, regardless of socioeconomic status.
The Chinese-owned app TikTok continues its growth as one of the most popular social media networks. After pandemic health measures were lifted, other social media networks saw a decline in use.
A study of more than 20 million LinkedIn users shows acquaintances you have about 10 friends in common with are the most likely to help you get a new job.
Scuttlebutt is an entirely decentralised social network – and it shows we can learn to make the internet better.
To think about new ways of transmitting science and to really innovate how we teach, the first step is creating an appropriate dialogue format. From there, everything becomes possible.
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Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director, Security and Resilience Program, Northeastern University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professeur en marketing, EM Lyon Business School
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Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Experimental Psycology, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Digital Sociologist, Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po
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Associate Professor, UCT School of Economics; South African Reserve Bank Research Chair in Financial Stability Studies, University of Cape Town
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Research Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California
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Professor, UCL
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Research Associate, Durham University
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RFIEA Fellows 2017-2018, IEA Paris, Researcher in Literary theory, University of Verona
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Researcher, University of Sydney
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Former postdoctoral researcher on machine learning applied to chemical engineering and currently science communicator for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), University of Tokyo
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Professor Digital Culture, Business and Computing at Durham University Business School and Advanced Research Computing (ARC), Durham University, Durham University
