Culture
The Social Network Without Society
AI influencers expose what happens when the social web can manufacture the people, authenticity and engagement it was built to monetise.
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Culture
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Culture
Clip Farming the Real World
From Streamer University to IShowSpeed, a confused millennial tries to understand what happens when clip farming escapes the stream and starts reorganising the real world.
Culture
The Narrative Factory
Platforms as narrative factories — how advertising stacks, attention economics, and AI-generated content plug into the way human consciousness already works.
Sport
Go for the Culture
Spectators vs contributors at live events — from Klopp's Anfield challenge to grime nights in the early 2010s.
Culture
Critical Thinking and The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan, scientific scepticism, and why critical thinking is a lifelong skill — especially in the age of deepfakes and misinformation.
Sport
Skateboarding and Personal Growth
Perseverance, self-motivation, and Tony Hawk at 51 — what skateboarding taught me about personal growth.
Music
Cultural Change in Music Consumption
Artist revenue, platform economics, and broken incentives — why technology alone won't fix the music industry without cultural change.
Music
Avicii: The Dark Side of Hard Work
The cost of glorifying unsustainable work, prompted by Avicii's passing and the culture of 'hard work' we may need to change.
Culture
BRB
How technology changed the language of communication — from 'be right back' on MSN to always-on smartphones.
Culture
Field Recording of 'The Last Summer'
Field recordings of the threshold between student life and working life — a sound project capturing one last long summer.
Music
Universal Music Group: Changing the Past to Sell You the Future
Universal Music Group embedding ads in existing music videos — the first advertising critique, and a prediction about VR advertising.