Category Socio-cultural change
Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 2
Immaginare il mondo dopo il coronavirus
Imagining the world after coronavirus
Mass panic unlikely during pandemics
Torino, how are you?
Torino, come stai?
The first of a thousand nights – ToNite project opening event
La prima di mille notti. Evento di inaugurazione progetto ToNite
A new psych paper on why being extremely online makes you cynical
Amy Orben: To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope
Three narratives that stymie social change and what we can do about it
Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing
[Book] All the Ghosts in the Machine
NYTimes Magazine special issue on the future of the internet
Old, online, and fed on lies: How an aging population will reshape the internet
Although many older Americans have, like the rest of us, embraced the tools and playthings of the technology industry, a growing body of research shows they have disproportionately fallen prey to the dangers of internet misinformation and risk being further…
Papers on behaviour, design and the circular economy
Consumer insights into the circular economy Report of stakeholder meeting, 25 October 2018, 14 pages The “Stakeholder Meeting: Consumer Insights into the Circular Economy” in Brussels on 25 October 2018, was co-organised by the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption (CSCP)…
[Book] The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff Profile Books, 31 January 2019 704 pages The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the…
The tyranny of story
In this BBC Radio 4 series, British journalist John Harris examines the potency of narrative, both in the stories that define us as individuals and in those that shape our understanding of the public domain. Story is ubiquitous – and…
[Book] Who can you trust?
Who can you trust? How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart by Rachel Botsman Public Affairs November 2017, 336 pages If you can’t trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business,…