The pseudo-Darwinist conspiracy
Why do we still believe that competition is the only way forward?
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Should we ban twitter or praise it?
Thomas Neumark argues the focus should be on understanding the power social networks themselves.
RSA Animate – The Internet in Society: Empowering and Censoring Citizen?
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted from a talk given in 2009, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran’s ‘twitter revolution’ fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet.
WikiLeaks and the media
The internet is a facilitator of anarchy and rebellion and must be preserved as such, argues Nick Brace FRSA.
FIFA’s Own Goal
FRSA David Goldblatt argues that England’s world cup bid humiliation should spur the football community, public and press to push for greater scrutiny and radical reform of FIFA.
Is retail therapy a narrative for our times?
Juliana Farha FRSA examines how the language of marketing consumer goods increasingly suggests a higher moral or cultural purpose
Positivity gets a bad press
In this unforgiving climate, we are hooked on the energising urgency of bad news. It’s time to start enjoying life, says Laurence Shorter
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