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We’ve come a long way in a year. The twelve month debate on whether anonymity online is helping or hindering democratic life has shifted, from calls for an outright ban on online anonymity as the best means to tackle online...
What role do we want technology to play in our lives? In popular debate, this question divides into two polar extremes: those who see us living better, healthier, technology assisted lives, and those who fear a Black Mirror-style digital dystopia....
Election Day in the US saw a predictable surge in false, misleading or harmful narratives emerging, from robocalls telling voters to stay home, to YouTube livestreams of fake election results, to online amplification of hate and unrest. To their credit,...
As part of our Renew Normal project, Demos is conducting a series of engagement exercises via Polis, an online deliberative tool, to look at how the public view different issues in light of Covid-19. As this is an open-access survey,...
“It’s a very strange state of affairs online…” – Participant in our men’s focus group What happens over the next few months will likely shape the Internet for years to come: the election in the US, where battles over misinformation...
George Floyd’s death at the hand of the Minneapolis police has sparked large protests around the world, targeting police brutality and systemic racism. The instant and global organisation of large-scale protests often relies on social media. But with lockdown measures...
The Government has set up a free online learning platform for furloughed workers to learn new skills. But unless it is redesigned and targeted to the needs of people who are actually on furlough, it will have limited impact while...
In 1994, just 3 years after the World Wide Web was first made available to the public, Rael A Fenchurch took a glimpse into the different world that was emerging on the ‘Global Information Superhighway’ – aka the internet. Recognising that...
From electronic voting to reform of select committees, modernising the functions of Parliament have long been called for by many. Yet when Parliamentary recess comes to an end next week, MPs will be going virtual for the first time. We...
