Raian Ali, Bournemouth University; Emily Arden-Close, Bournemouth University, and John McAlaney, Bournemouth University The World Health Organisation is to include “gaming disorder”, the inability to stop gaming, into the International Classification of Diseases. By doing so, the WHO is recognising the serious and growing problem of digital addiction. The problem has also been acknowledged by Google, which recently announced that it will begin focusing on “Digital Well-being”. Although there is a growing recognition of the problem, users are still not aware of exactly how digital technology is designed to facilitate addiction. We’re part of a research team that focuses on…
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Paul Basu, SOAS, University of London It’s an extraordinary collection of portraits from Nigeria and Sierra Leone taken between 1909 and 1915, when Britain was at the height of its empire. The archive shows a vast array of faces – of women, children and men – some distant, some suspicious, some proud, some confused, some joyous. Most are photographed against a canvas backdrop, some with number boards above their heads, all of them silent. Many of our museums and archives are filled with such traces of Britain’s colonial past, and exist as troubling presences in our public institutions. Many of…
Denise Rosemary Nicholson, University of the Witwatersrand A big barrier to lifelong learning can be the cost of resources. There are worldwide initiatives to change this, though, and it’s helpful to know how to use these resources legally. One such arrangement is Creative Commons, considered to be the global standard for open licences. These were written by legal experts around the world and dedicated to the public domain. They enable teaching and learning resources to be made available in the public domain. This is usually in their digital form under an open licence and without cost other than the cost…
Brands The last three weeks have been dramatic for social media advertisers, influencers and politicians. Two of the world’s largest social media platforms fired unexpected shots against the underbelly of the social media underbelly. For Twitter, the founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey (who recently paid an eccentric visit to Nigeria) did not dignify his targets with an official statement or press release. On the night of the 30th of October, Jack dropped the bombshell via his personal Twitter handle (@jack) that the world’s largest social microblogging platform will no longer tolerate any form of political advertising. To Jack, it is…
Persistent sin. We suffer from that. The cold tears that run down every night Wondering if forgiveness will ever come. The burning of the soul for the longing Of some form of reconciliation To say that the soul is clear, if not pure. We look up, and ask for what we want. We hear nothing. Unconsciously, we continue to sin, As we think it wouldn’t matter As our cries for help were not answered. Someday, we might just sit and look around. We might look at the little things and listen. Listen to those sounds of accepting one’s…
Reading 1 Rom 8:1-11 Brothers and sisters: Now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death. For what the law, weakened by the flesh, was powerless to do, this God has done: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for the sake of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the righteous decree of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live not according to the flesh but…
Holy Humour What? Jesus said, “Who do people say that I am?” And his disciples answered and said, “Some say you are John the Baptist returned from the dead; others say Elijah, or one of the prophets. And Jesus answered and said, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Logos, existing in the Father as His rationality and then, by an act of His will, being generated, in consideration of the various functions by which God is related to his creation, but only on the fact that Scripture speaks of a Father,…
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Earlier this year, we shared how Bukola Dakolo, wife of Nigerian artist, Timi Dakolo accused Biodun Fatoyinbo, the head pastor of Coza, of rape during her teenage years. The accusation which caused a nationwide backlash against Biodun and his church. He since denied this accusation insisting on his innocence: “I have never raped before, not even as an unbeliever.” Further releasing a statement to his effect. The matter was eventually taken to court by Busola. She tendered her demands before a Federal Territory High Court in Abuja. However, the rape case against Senior pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo has been dismissed on…
Jill Newby, UNSW and Eoin McElroy, University of Leicester It’s a busy day at the office and your left eye has been twitching uncontrollably. So, out of curiosity and irritation you Google it. Various benign causes — stress, exhaustion, too much caffeine — put your mind at ease initially. But you don’t stop there. Soon, you find out eye twitches could be a symptom of something more sinister, causing you to panic. You ruin the rest of the day trawling through web pages and forums, reading frightening stories convincing you you’re seriously ill. For many of us, this cycle has…