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Let’s think about bread: the internet moves from community forum to shopping mall

10 December 2017 / 305

Dennis Broe compares the current attempts to overrule the principle of net neutrality with 18C French economists’ rejection of bread price controls. The U.S. regulatory body the... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

TV, internet and other media

Lenin didn’t have Facebook and never watched the telly

10 July 2017 / 282

Peter Frost discusses the uses and abuses of social media, and how its innately social character makes it a useful communications platform for socialists. Lenin died in... Continue reading

Peter Frost

TV, internet and other media

How the media shapes our cultural ideals of body shape

16 May 2017 / 561

Melissa Oldham charts how media representation of ideal body shapes, driven by the need to maximise profits, leads to negative body images in women and men. Feminine... Continue reading

Melissa Oldham

TV, internet and other media

The BBC: national treasure or tool of propaganda?

30 November 2015 / 396

Chris Jury explains why we should defend the BBC against the free-marketeers. The period of public consultation on the BBC Charter renewal has already been undermined by the... Continue reading