Society, Media and Culture

Insights from research on animality illuminate the relationship between literature and ecology.

With our data in the hands of web giants, can regulators stand up for civil liberties?

Big data: omnipresent but mostly invisible. How can politics catch up with Silicon Valley and get a grip on our information?

A round-up of the fake news debate across European countries.

Voters in the Visegrad countries rely on increasingly blurred lines between truth and falsehoods while making their choice at polling stations.

Fake news is thriving in the new media environment, presenting a threat to our democratic societies which we underestimate at our peril.

Various Dutch cities have started basic income experiments. But restrictions from central government are making some veer from the founding principle. How will it play out?

Ton Lemaire pleads for a new universal morality, which he calls humanimalism.

From centres of economic activity to amusement parks for tourists, what is happening to our cities and what space is left for their citizens?

Few cities have succeeded in recreating the success of Bilbao’s Guggenheim museum. What was its secret & what can this tell us about urban dynamics?