The art of the political fancam
Why do teenage girls make videos of middle-aged MPs?
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The world’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok
Jack Edwards shapes the online world’s reading habits from BookTok. But can he handle his success?
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Is Keir Starmer simply too uncharismatic for TikTok?
The Prime Minister has joined Substack and Tiktok. So far, it’s not going well
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Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it‘s still shaping policy
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Did you hear there’s a Rapture tonight?
TikTok Christians believe they might be about to ascend to heaven
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Labubu and the infantilisation of the West
Why are Brits now unable to sleep without fluffy toys?
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The revolution will be TikTokked
Yvette Cooper is wise to aim her media strategy at the dominant modes of our day.
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MasterChef’s kitchen nightmares
Your weekly dose of news and gossip from journalism, broadcasting and beyond.
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The coddling of the Gen Z mind
Internet slang has infantilised an entire generation, and undermined the gravity of the moment.
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Instagram’s small-c conservative aesthetic
The “old-money” influencers sell users a fantastical vision of their future.
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Trump doesn’t need TikTok to win with Gen Z
Even before the election, the young US cohort was already shifting right.
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Trump’s mission to save TikTok
Neither security concerns nor the law matter to the new president. Do they matter to us?
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My addiction to vertical video
It started with TikTok. So I deleted TikTok. But then I found myself on YouTube Shorts – then Instagram Reels…
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Jay Slater and our true-crime-poisoned culture
The cruel online response to the 19-year-old’s disappearance shows how real people’s lives have become fodder for content.
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TikTok will destroy our sense of political history
The app flattens all sense of perspective on the past.
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On social media, books are trendy. Is reading?
On TikTok and Instagram, influencers turn to books not as great literature, but as set dressing.
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The lessons of Osama bin Laden’s viral “Letter to America”
TikTok and other social media platforms allow distorted narratives to proliferate.
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Don’t let TikTok tell you how to dress
Influencers are charging hundreds of dollars for consultations to tell you how to dress for your “seasonal colours” or “Kibbe…
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A TikTok publishing house is bad news for books
Do we really want our literary landscape to be overrun with romance novels, trashy thrillers and scientifically dubious self-help?
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The Shein influencer trip shouldn’t have shocked us
Influencers have always been brand megaphones and PR tools.
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