Attention is a commodity for all providers of service. Where restaurants rely on customers buying their food, and where musicians rely on listeners buying albums, tickets to gigs, and subscriptions to music streaming sites, social media providers rely on consumers giving their attention to their platforms to generate custom. Unlike other services, immediate attention is…
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Oldham Council leader Arooj Shah targeted in firebomb attack
The car of Arooj Shah, North of England’s first female Muslim council leader, was set ablaze by a firebomb on July 13 at 1:30am. While she was unharmed by the explosion, the ferocity of the bomb was enough to damage a neighbouring property. Elected only recently in May, Arooj Shah has since spoken about abuse…
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Italy beats England in the Euros 2021 finals
Italy wins the UEFA European Championship 2021 after triumphing 3:2 over England after penalties. The game, played at Wembley on 11 June in the pouring rain, saw Luke Shaw sending the score to 1:0 in England’s favour at the two minute mark. At 35 minutes, a shot by Federico Chiesa missed the goal by inches…
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Teaching to be in person for next academic year for LDC students
An email from David Nowell-Smith, the LDC Teaching Director, has announced plans for all teaching to be in person for the 2021/2022 academic year for LDC students here at UEA. After praising LDC students for their “resilience” during a year of entirely online teaching, and noting the “incredibly difficult circumstances”, Nowell-Smith emphasized: “all teaching will…
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Spain’s Covid-19 rate jumps to highest in mainland Europe
Spain’s rate of Covid-19 infections has become the highest in mainland Europe. This is due to a dramatic increase in the Delta variant among under-30s, who are largely unvaccinated. Infections are up to 20 times as frequent among 12–29-year-olds as those over 70, who are most likely to be hospitalized after being infected. The Spanish…
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Judge denies Britney Spears’ request to remove father from conservatorship
Britney Spears’ request to have her father removed from the conservatorship that manages her finances and affairs has been denied by California judge Brenda Penny. The singer’s lawyer, Samuel Ingham, asked a court in Los Angeles to oust Jamie Spears from his position managing the multimillion dollar estate. When calling for Jamie Spears to be…
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators speak in UEA Square
Hundreds of UEA students and staff protested in support for Palestinians against Israel at the Square on the 25th May at 5pm. Organized by the UEA Arab Society and UEA Palestinian Solidarity Society, speakers shared stories through a microphone in between shouts calling to free Palestine to an audience sat on the steps of the…
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UEA Live with Ali Smith and Sarah Wood: “When is a space not your space, even when it is your space?”
Here’s a joke from the 1970s: “What do you do when you see a space man?” “I don’t know, what do you do when you see a space man?” “Park in it, man” In collaboration with the East Anglian Film Archive, filmmaker Sarah Wood and writer Ali Smith presented their exclusive short film ‘The New…
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Readers are the writers of their reading experience
I once read a domestic boiler user manual and resonated with the feeling of bursting under pressure. Reading about cooling pipes sent chills flooding through my veins. External steam rising from an internal stream. This theoretical boiler was more real to me than many characters I have read since. Readers generally try to relate to…
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