Topic · 11 briefs
Media and platforms
How attention is produced, packaged and sold. Briefs on journalism, publishing, podcasts and the distribution systems that decide what gets read.
Infrastructure rescue and private leverage
Cloudflare’s proposed intervention in web publishing starts with its position between content and those accessing it.
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Building is not the same as proving
SpudCell can divide, according to Professor Dave Explains’ episode description, but the programme still asks whether the synthetic cell is alive.
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Who controls the cultural frame
TIME’s location report introduces Alec Guinness as “black of face” and wearing a floral-print dress, then gives him the line “Excuse my skirt.” In this supplied fragment, racial i…
Convenience sets the starting point
Chosic promises a playlist built from a song the listener likes, delivered in seconds.
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Who can contest the record
South Africa’s apartheid state charged Nelson Mandela with offences including treason, incitement and sabotage, placing political resistance inside proceedings controlled by the s…
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