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While some creators proudly embrace the label of sex worker, many others reject it outright.
To the designer Susan Kare, designing icons was about solving ‘the little puzzle of making an image fit a metaphor’. Forty years later, that challenge remains.
Taking regular breaks from technology seems like a good idea. A digital wellbeing expert explains if that’s backed by science.
Chemistry is often presented as one of the most advanced sciences, yet its day-to-day practice remains surprisingly manual.
Social Stress Indicator is invaluable for digital governance, crisis response, mental health monitoring, and platform design to track and respond to social stress.
Local conflict and development needs drive the demand for digital authoritarianism technologies.
AI policy development is not a neutral or technical process but a political one.
Ghana and Nigeria are hosts of training schools for online scams.
When asked, students say that touch is important in developing reading and writing skills. Research backs them up.
New research reveals the digital divide that was exposed by the COVID pandemic.
Educators need to carefully consider ChatGPT and issues of academic integrity to move toward an assessment system that leverages AI tools.
The huge gathering of policymakers focused on culture’s crucial role in sustainable development.
Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
We’re seeing a new wave of politicians embracing social media – and often this means a departure from a serious demeanour to one that’s more wilfully strange, awkward and dramatic.
Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
Stanford researcher Lucy Bernholz is re-imagining what philanthropy looks like and is trying to understand how average people create, fund and distribute shared social goods in the digital age.
Parents who spy on their children’s online activity run the risk of doing more harm than good, an expert says.
A video of Ahmaud Arbery was widely seen and shared by the citizens who could be called on to judge the accused killers. The issue was recently argued before the Supreme Court.
Media houses with digital and traditional newsrooms need to create collaborative environments to address the tensions that often emerge between the old and the new.



















