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Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...students to become critically-engaged citizens. Many such skills are learnt within degree programmes as ‘study skills’ – to sift, evaluate, and authenticate information; to shape communication to a particular audience. But they can also be applied to broader contexts, and used to raise awareness of how the flow of information in society as a whole is managed – and...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...become the best-selling literary genre in Britain (The Guardian, 2020). In 2021, two novels from Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series occupied first and fourth place in the UK’s best-seller list (Good e-Reader, 2022). In France in 2018, almost one in five of all books sold was in the crime fiction category (BePolar, 2019). For a literary form to achieve this...
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Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University
History & The Arts

Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University

...student union. We met at the Maison Française d’Oxford to discuss “art, science and diplomacy for a plural world on a challenged planet”. Like most of the audience, the panellists were most eager to hear what the shaman, Indigenous diplomat and scholar, Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, had to say. Davi Kopenawa is a co-author (with Bruce Albert) of The Falling Sky (2013)...
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Rastafari in Israel
History & The Arts

Rastafari in Israel

...student in Religious Studies at The Open University, explains her research on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari in this article...My doctoral research focuses on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari. I am interested in de-essentialising Rastafari, and over the next year or so I will be conducting fieldwork in Rome and London with different...
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En rumbo: intermediate Spanish
Languages

En rumbo: intermediate Spanish

...student. He talks about what he likes to do. Making suggestions and plans and responding to them We’re going to listen to two conversations where two women are making plans. What will they do? When? Who are they going with? The future We’re going to listen to Paloma, a woman from Spain, talking about her holiday plans. She is planning to go on two breaks. Where is she...
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Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...OU's Dr Dave Middleton asks if there's a balance between respectfully giving, and giving respect...[Homeless person on the city street] There are many complex reasons why people go to food banks This was the British Prime Minister, Theresa May’s response to TV journalist Andrew Marr when asked whether it was right that nurses should have to use food banks. Whatever the...
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...OU's Social Sciences qualifications. [ Three African American women in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, ca. 192] Three African American women in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, ca. 1925 This New York City neighbourhood - part of Manhattan borough - has long been home for its large proportion of African-American residents and businesses. After being associated...
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Do Something Great
Nature & Environment

Do Something Great

...OU's Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership. Live near the coast? Get involved with cleaning up coastal environments - discover more with our free content. Use your digital knowledge to help someone less web-savvy get online with our learning resources. Take small steps to do your bit for the environment and find out more about environmental issues. Find out more about a...
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