When local media shuts down, communities rely more on "national" media - which polarises their political identities
Graphic realism: Jason Hickel shows that, when you measure global wealth gaps, how you visualise really matters
Why must it "bleed" to "lead" the news? Our amygdala, and our memory for trauma, may explain. And show us how to route around it.
Can we transform the world by 2031? A new BBC Ideas video shows how we've made major shifts before
Welcome to Emerge - a non-profit media platform that is "sowing the seeds of a new civilisation".
"We've got twelve years to act": David Wallace-Wells on the single sentence that could save the planet
The Commons Platform wants to build an alternative media infrastructure - but starting from values first
New documentary "2040" uses digital special effects to show a better, more climate-balanced world
Alternative Editorial: The Age of Soft Power
A/UK EDITORIAL, A BETTER MEDIA, BEHAVIOUR, BREXIT, COMMUNITY, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICEpat kanesoft power, media, social media, self development, Citizens Action Networks
Some beautiful animations on utopia, algorithms and who you really are, from RSAShorts
How to be a Network Entrepreneur: be ready to lose control, open up to discomfort, relate to those different from you
How to reclaim your mental sovereignty from the incessant demands of your smartphone (and get back to long-term thinking)
Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a ground-breaking book - calling for the Net to return to the people
Alternative Editorial: What's Love Got To Do With It?
A/UK speaking on Utopia Dispatch - a podcast to reimagine the future and reshape the world
Alternative Editorial: Don't Look For Hope, Look For Action
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Drummer Queens, voice boxes for the mute, 21stC unions, AI that customises drugs for you: TED's 20 New Fellows
“A system that privileges rationality over emotion is a system that protects the status quo”. How stories can help break through
Immersive theatre can put you at the heart of a revolution. But does it make you revolutionary?
Here's Participedia. That's right: an encyclopedia of participatory and deliberative practice