Media & Society

Maybe you have heard of extreme sports, but have you heard of any of these annual competitions? Check them out.   1. Stiletto Race Competing in heels with a minimum of ...

On the day that Andy Coulson was sentenced to 18 months for his part in the industrial-scale phone ...

Let's be clear: from Spotify to Pandora, streamed music is killing downloads, and that's bad for artists and ...

Why are we so loyal to our national and club football teams? Whatever the results, we tend to ...

It's official: more people in the US are streaming the World Cup than this year's Superbowl, so it's ...

Technology is an established part of the lives of students. But university lecturers are becoming increasingly frustrated at ...

The journey of whistleblower website WikiLeaks was traced by, among others, Professor Gerard Goggin, chair of the Department ...

Urban legends get around, but we don't really understand why. We conducted a study to explain how misinformation ...

In a move that has as many people puzzled as outraged, Facebook has published research that involved a ...

I downloaded a new keyboard onto my phone yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see it suggesting the ...

This article contains spoilers. Some reviewers have somewhat lazily compared Amma Asante's recently opened film Belle to the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave, that other film about slavery. But ...

Here are 9 celebrated figures who have been speaking out and standing up for human rights.

High-speed algorithms have so revolutionized the way stock markets function that laws regulating the markets may be quickly ...

When faced with a moral dilemma, people using a foreign language make decisions based on assessments of what’s ...

We tend to think that a group decision is more likely to be accurate when there are more ...

In an extraordinary moment at the Eichmann trial, an Auschwitz survivor who gave himself the name Ka-Tzetnick (from ...

Most of us are only too aware of the seemingly intractable problems we’re facing within healthcare, education, community ...

A new study finds that while homeownership can spark feelings of pride in people of any race, it ...

There used to be a strong conservative coalition opposed to drugs, but it's dissipated in the face of ...

For 12 years, Lily Cole’s fiery red hair and porcelain features helped land the statuesque model on the ...

Varian Fry was an American journalist and Harvard graduate who saved more than 2,000 artists and anti-Nazi activists ...

How a father's loving words can turn pop culture's sexualized feminine beauty back into something pure and from ...

Technology is under development to enable advertisers to target products not just at a broad group of people ...

This weekend, the U.S. holds its most watched and celebrated sporting event: the Super Bowl. The XLVIII (that's ...

Last week, while we were still digesting the revelation that The Independent, which had been acquired by its ...

Victims of physical and sexual violence are failed by healthcare and criminal justice workers who do not recognize ...