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Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?

...Publications Act 1959. This act is well-recognised as out-of-date and difficult to interpret. Prosecutions under the act have demonstrated that the public conception of what amounts to obscene behaviour is notoriously difficult to pin down. When the Crown Prosecution Service confidently prosecuted Michael Peacock in 2012 for producing DVDs featuring urination, fisting and...
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Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result
Society, Politics & Law

Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result

...public spending. But when the Greeks appealed for help in December 2014, Europe said “no”. That is what ultimately opened the path for Alexis Tsipras. And the situation continued. Between January and July 2015, Europe refused to reopen talks. Now it’s September and the new support package that was discussed this summer has led to the further postponement of debt...
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Why has Theresa May called for a snap election?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Theresa May called for a snap election?

...public will warm to Jeremy and his policies once they see more of him: Not. Going. To. Happen. If the Labour leader and his team think they’ve had a raw deal from the media – and from the Tories – since he took over, they ain’t seen nothing yet. Even on a level playing field (and it won’t be one) they’d still stand no chance: they’re miles behind on the...
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Why the Duke of Edinburgh's retirement was a masterclass in media management
History & The Arts

Why the Duke of Edinburgh's retirement was a masterclass in media management

...public engagements showed that Buckingham Palace has learned how to play the media at its own game...[Prince Philip opens Mid Kent College, 1955] Philip opens a college in Kent in 1955 Buckingham Palace’s announcement that Prince Philip is retiring in the autumn is a masterclass in triggering media spectacle. Media industries around the world instantly went into...
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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...public and private loyalties. Above all, this is reflected through the question of espionage when the activities of one prompt considerations within the group on the meaning of loyalty. In his novel Williams gets to the heart of human vulnerabilities at moments of competing loyalties. The CCIG-funded 'Loyalties' seminar at Kellogg College, Oxford, set out to investigate...
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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...public as well as for civil society organisations to legitimately make claims.Societies across the globe have been facing increasing inequalities for many years, as growth has tended to polarise the gaps between rich and poor. At the same time, many countries’ leaders have become more authoritarian which closes down space for the public as well as for civil society...
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Citizen science and the data avalanche
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and the data avalanche

...public genuine and valuable participation in scientific discovery, and it turns out that there is a huge public appetite for taking part. You may be surprised to find out that humans are still often much better than AI at classification tasks.At the Open University, we have played and are playing leading roles in many large international research teams, and many of these...
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?

...public mourning – the spontaneous and large-scale outpouring of grief that follows a national or international tragedy, and the way this can often seem to be as much about an individual’s self-promotion as it is about sincere emotion. That was in the infancy of the internet, and well before the invention of modern social media. In the last few years it’s become a...
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