After Christchurch: how do we curtail the spread of video from atrocities?
The Christchurch attack was a terrorist event for the social media age. We need to address this situation on multiple levels to minimise the harm done.
The Economist on the economics of cartooning
The Economist have been posting some older, evergreen (or “stock” content, for regular readers…) on Medium. The piece on cartooning
ISIS: waging war on social media
Inside the Islamic State propaganda machine: Senior media operatives are treated as “emirs” of equal rank to their military counterparts.
The Charlie Hebdo Backlash
A swath of prominent American literary figures are worried by the support for Charlie Hebdo after the shootings earlier this
Charlie Hebdo, the French tradition of satire, and cherry-picking cartoons
There’s been a growing consensus online that Charlie Hebdo is a “racist” magazine. In fact, I’ve ended up