Social Science Space

Do you know what makes your pans non-stick or your toothpaste and hand soap fight bacteria? According to the European […]

[We’re pleased to welcome Carolyn M. Plump who collaborated with William Van Buskirk for Clare Morgan’s What Poetry Brings to […]

Women first took part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, according to the International Olympic Committee. At the […]

Liliana Bounegru looks at how media scholars have leveraged digital data and algorithmic accountability. In times of shrinking news budgets and staff cuts journalists can turn to such readily available sources of data as a way to understand public engagement with major issues.

It’s finally spring time! According to the College Board, most high school students take the SAT for the first time […]

The Oscars have been awarded! But just how does winning an award affect the prizewinner? Not the way you would […]

[Editor’s Note: This piece was originally posted on SAGE’s blog SAGE Connection and is re-posted here with the kind permission […]

Need a good book to help you get through the post-holiday doldrums? Finn Brunton: Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet. […]

The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.

Even within its own narrow terms the Iraq war was appallingly costly. A bad decision to invade was compounded by shambolic and ineffective leadership of the warfighting itself. Why? The answer seems to lie in the ways in which contemporary large organizations behave

Virginia Crisp on filesharing – or is it piracy – or is all property theft?….and why is everyone playing table football?

The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.