Frank Pasquale The public sphere has endured yet another structural transformation. Megafirms like Facebook and Google have largely automated the [...]
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Social media and favelas: The build up of peripheral subjectivities
Helton Levy From all the hardship that stem from living in a Brazilian favela, a key challenge remains one of appearing [...]
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Policy Briefing: What Ever Happened to Home Ownership and Asset-based Welfare?
Richard Ronald The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section is curated by [...]
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@Grand Hotel Abyss: digital university and the future of critique
Jana Bacevic It is by now commonplace to claim that digital technologies have fundamentally transformed knowledge production. This applies not only [...]
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Why is everyone talking about algorithms?
David Beer Just before midnight on the 6th of October 2016 the pound suddenly dropped by 6% before recovering most of [...]
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This is the rhythm of our (social media) lives
Elinor Carmi What is that noise? I opened the newspaper and the headline was screaming “Saving New York from its own [...]
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Understanding Twitch Chat: New Forms of Digital Community and Play
Mark Johnson and Jamie Woodcock Twitch is an online platform that enables anyone with a mid-range computer and a reasonably fast [...]
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Digital Afterlives: Learning from Blogs of the Terminally Ill
Timothy Recuber You are going to die. It could happen soon. Suddenly. Before you’d ever even given much thought to it. [...]
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Engines of Knowledge: The Museum and the Exhibit
Hamish Robertson My focus is on what I have termed, after Ian Hacking’s idea, engines of knowledge. This notion of engines [...]
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The Call Centre and the Future of Work
Jamie Woodcock (interviewed by Mark Carrigan) How did the call centre emerge and proliferate? Would it be a mistake to see [...]
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