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(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

In The Quirks of Digital Culture, David Beer provides a patchwork of quirky vignettes that together create a representative picture of the cultural environment in which we now live, showing how digital culture offers a means of access, insight and possibility while also bringing the payoff of surveillance, manipulation and a…

This review essay originally appeared on LSE Review of Books. If you would like to contribute to the series, please contact the managing editor of LSE Review of Books, Dr Rosemary Deller, at lsereviewofbooks@lse.ac.uk As the relationship between the artist and the listener is now primarily negotiated by algorithms instead of label…

The day before Justin Trudeau announced his economic rescue, Gerald Butts, the prime minister’s former principal secretary, advised his more than 74,000 Twitter followers that if they were looking for insight on the “economic fallout” from COVID-19, they should follow Jason Furman, a Harvard economist who served in Barack Obama’s…

We talk a lot about storytelling in branding. And one term that’s at the heart of this is ‘brand story’. For me, a brand story is a narrative that explains the core of a brand. Crucially, it’s much more than just a back-story; it connects the dots between the back-story,…