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The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Mov...

Critical theorists like Theodor Adorno may have overreached in claiming that all mass culture is mediocre, mechanized propaganda made to justify the status quo. But that doesn’t me...

Digital media threatening book culture, says Marulasiddappa at literary event

Digital Entertainment and a More Sustainable, Balanced Lifestyle

Digital entertainment is part of everyday life, from streaming films and listening to music to reading e-books and playing games. These activities can reduce the nee… The post Digi...

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Culture and the Moment

By Sage Crump. Sage Crump introduces a new essay series from the Culture Justice Initiative (CJI).

Do Egyptians Still Share the Same Cultural Moments?

There was a time when it was correct to assume that Egyptians had watched the same shows and movies the night before. A popular Ramadan series aired on television, and by the next...

Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s cultureWhether it was Thatcherism, populism or the story of the Sony Walkman,...

Discover the Lost Horror Series Deemed Too Shocking for BBC Television (1967)

High culture and new technology have never been a natural pairing. As our digital era has often underscored, media innovations tend to be adopted earliest to deliver the most pueri...

When radio finds a new digital voice: Bringing Romani language and culture online in Kosovo

Digital transformation does not always require expensive infrastructure or complex solutions. For community media, it can begin by taking valuable content that already exists and g...

Design Actively Shapes Culture

How visual and digital design becomes part of what people recognize as normal.

Is American Culture Simply Bad Now?

The world order is changing. So is the United States’ place in it.

Culture

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The hidden culture of AI

AI isn’t culturally neutral. Whose culture are you designing for?Continue reading on UX Collective »

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport confirms ministerial briefs

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has officially confirmed the briefs for its ministers following the changes announced by new prime minister Andy Burnh...

Digital hopes, real power: From connection to collective action

If the Arab Spring was defined by optimism about what the internet could do, the years since have been marked by a more sober understanding of what it takes to defend it

Nature and Culture: art and the creative artificiality of Second Life

Currently open at IMAGOLand & Galleries is an interesting exhibition by the gallery’s owner, Mareea Farrasco. Entitled Nature and Culture, it sits as an examination of the inte...

“Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck” – playwright James Graham | Radical Thinking – podcast

Are we doomscrolling our way into a democratic crisis? That’s what the playwright James Graham fears may be happening, as he suggests that our algorithms have led us into ‘a massiv...

How to Navigate Modern Digital Spaces Without Losing Your Local Connection

You probably know more about a city you’ve never visited than about the block you live on. That’s not a personal failing, it’s how the feed is built. Algorithms optimise… The post...

The Enshittocene Strikes Back: Centaurs, Reverse Centaurs, and the Battle for Worker Agency

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Tak...

Digital Worlds and the Limits of Frictionless Space: Rethinking Scale and Materiality

Historically, the way we design has been closely linked to the way we build. Architecture moved through physical testing, trial and error, projection drawings, mock-ups, and physic...

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As people spend significantly more time chatting through online messengers and refusing to go socialize, two cultural activities become increasingly popular: 1)... The post Human f...

What is mainstream culture now? YouTube tries to answer that question.

A new YouTube trends survey looks at the state of monoculture in 2026.

From Spice Girls to Father Ted: In the 90s, culture was in your face — not on your phone

A new exhibition at Tate Britain captures the energy of the 90s. Suzanne Harrington looks back at a decade of creativity, hedonism and analogue anonymity

CW@60: The moment technology became personal

The excitement of being in Silicon Valley as technology changed the world showed Claire Reid why managing people through change is the key to digital success