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Australians don’t need an economist to tell them they’re hurting at the petrol pump. They feel it every time they pull into a service station, every time they rethink a planned holiday, or every time they’ve had to squeeze another…
Online comments can shape how social media content about politics is perceived, even when people’s opinions are hard to change, a new study shows. The new research suggests that while attitudes may be stable, the way people interpret political messages…
Excavation of a council house at the major Lowland Maya center of Ucanal, Guatemala, reveals how the public gained some influence over Maya politics more than 1,000 years ago. These colonnaded, open halls were likely council houses, where political leaders…
Musicians around the world agree on one thing: streaming platforms are essential for their careers. Most also agree on another: they don’t pay enough. A new report from the Oxford Internet Institute and the University of Groningen captures this contradiction…
Earlier this year, I published a paper on the ethics of researching military populations. The core argument was straightforward: the standard rules researchers follow to protect participants—for example, informed consent and voluntary participation—don’t work the same in an institution built…
A study of nearly 200,000 Amazon reviews shows that the usefulness of online product reviews depends not only on what is said, but on how the information is structured. The researchers, from the Universities of Cambridge and Queensland, studied Amazon…
By analyzing DNA of ancient skeletons at a Neolithic burial site near Paris, an international team of researchers has uncovered evidence of a dramatic population replacement 5,000 years ago. The findings indicate that the population collapse known as the “Neolithic…
You have probably never heard the term “crimefluencer.” These are members of decentralized online crime networks who take crime content and amplify it to build notoriety and status in their online communities.
When people interact in person, subtle signals like facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice play a crucial role in communicating intent and meaning, whereas written communications lack these nonverbal cues and can lead to misinterpretation or assumptions. The…