Digital tailspin: rules for the internet after Snowden
In the ‘old game’, the analogue world of centralised knowledge institutions, knowledge was power. But now that knowledge is everywhere, the rules of the game have changed.
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Did fashion drive the industrial revolution?
Unravelling a consumption conundrum – was it changing tastes and fashion that drove increased consumption during the industrial revolution or was it falling prices?
MoreCreating an Economy for the Common Good
Universities should be places for innovation and ideas, challenging orthodoxy and asking radical questions. In this podcast we look at a new economic approach that hundreds of companies, universities, local governments and indviduals are signing up to.
MoreWomen’s Legal Landmarks
A new project is developing the discipline of women’s legal history – and its work ranges from ostrich feathers to Greenham Common
MoreField Marshall Lord Roberts VC
Born in India in 1832, and commemorated with statues in Glasgow, London and Kolkata, Lord Roberts was a veteran of Britain’s colonial wars in S Africa and Afghanistan.His is a darkness and light story of empire, fame, notoriety and charity. .
MoreInequality: What can be done?
The world faces great problems but collectively we are not at the mercy of forces outside our control, the future is very much in our hands, says Prof Tony Atkinson
MoreStammering: latest research findings
New research suggests that vibrations on the skin can help reduce stammering – but it is no miracle cure.
MoreCyber Attacks – finding out where they come from
With the increasing frequency, complexity and sophistication of cyber attacks – such as Stuxnet, the Sony Hack – how is attribution done?
MoreMarxism in the 21st Century: Culture and Cultural Studies
A sweep across Gramsci, Ruskin, Althusser, Lukács, Hoggart to explore, as Stuart Hall said, how cultural studies within a Marxist tradition enables us “to understand culture – cultural discourse – the place and relationship of the ideological.”
MoreA TripAdvisor for Fertility Clinics?
We check out Trip Advisor if we are booking a hotel, but would the same approach work for fertility clinics? Recording of an important event in London looking at how best to represent patient feedback on fertility clinics.
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