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  • A pencil drawing of a man addressing a crowd from a car rooftop next to a photograph of protestors on their knees surrounded by teargas

    Kenya’s youth-led revolution

    Rasna Warah reports on how young people in and beyond Kenya are using social media to challenge corrupt, old-school politicians

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    Behind the ‘Great Firewall of China’

    Jiannan Shi reports on China’s internet censorship – and the creative ways people are finding to sidestep it

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    Breaking up with my X

    Tom Whyman traces a personal journey with Elon Musk’s social media platform: from a coming-of-age love story to Twittering off

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    Twitch and the online left

    Political livestreaming shows news consumption has become a form of community participation in which political ideology is reinforced, argues Samuel Rafanell-Williams

  • Key words: Innovation

    ‘Innovation’ is often invoked as a byword for progress within capitalism, but as Joe Mayall explains, such progress does not serve everyone equally

  • An illustration of a hand writing out binary code on a paper with a pen, with a robotic hand controlling the pen from above

    Machine unlearning: AI, neoliberalism and universities in crisis

    Could Artificial Intelligence render the university obsolete? Katy Hayward explores what is lost when human thought is made subordinate to the machine

  • On a black baground the ilustrated outline of a tank in pink. Figures are climbing on it with flowers, CND symbols and a flag of Palestine. The text reads: Games Transformed 2024: No war but class war

    Games Transformed: play, jams and gamers against militarism

    Games are not neutral, says Sara Khan. Its time for gamers to raise the alarm – and creatively resist the military-entertainment complex

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