Navigating the Lens: The Social Media Generation's Impact on Professional Photography
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In the era where smartphones have become an extension of the hand, so has the camera of the eye; the...
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Sylvie Evans
- Mar 1
- 4 min
(Hyper)reality TV: the Future of Reality Television in the Social Media Age
‘Receipts! Proof! Timelines! Screenshots!’ Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It was the reckoning heard around the world. The recent finale...
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Gem Kirwan
- Aug 28, 2023
- 4 min
Barbie: How the patriarchy’s mascot became a feminist icon
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Barbie was never meant to be a feminist. For decades, Barbie dolls have young girls’ first encounters...
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Nelly Laycock
- Aug 28, 2023
- 4 min
Huw Edwards and the Problems of a Modern-Day Scandal
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Early July saw Huw Edwards become the latest presenter to face scrutiny over claims that he paid a...
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Niki Cleland-Hura
- Jul 14, 2023
- 4 min
Revisiting Dada’s Women
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Dada – an early 20th-century art movement often dubbed ‘anti-art’ or ‘absurdist’ – emerged as a reaction...
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Flora Leask
- Jun 27, 2023
- 4 min
'AI and Popular Culture': In Conversation with Dr Lee Barron
Image provided by Lee Barron. The Broad’s Creative Director Flora Leask chatted with Dr Lee Barron about his new non-fiction book AI and...
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Owen Thomas Webb
- May 1, 2023
- 5 min
Qigong Heavenly Kingdom – The Peculiar World of Shen Yun
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq When Shen Yun came to the Edinburgh Playhouse to perform ‘5,000 Years of Chinese Civilization Reborn’, it...
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Hermione Byron
- Nov 10, 2022
- 4 min
Turn on, tune in, log out
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Like’ it or not, social media is reshaping our brains. In more ways than one, the internet influences...
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Amelia Newton
- Mar 4, 2022
- 4 min
Is it time to cancel ‘cancel culture’?
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In 2022, the phrase ‘cancel culture’ is familiar to most who have some form of online presence through...
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Gem Kirwan
- Feb 28, 2022
- 3 min
Shimon Hayut: ‘swindler’ or celebrity?
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Cecilie Fjellhøy thought she had found the fairytale romance she’d always wanted. The man of her dreams,...
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Gem Kirwan
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Rape culture and football: the ugly truth behind the “Beautiful Game”
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It’s difficult to overstate the cultural impact of football on society: it dominates the TV guides, it...
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Pablo Lacalle Castillo
- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
Politiktok: why social media’s biggest craze has crippled political discussion.
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It has admittedly become somewhat of a cliché to point out the irony that in an unprecedented age of mass...
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