If the UK Labour party gets re-elected after the refusal by party leader Ed Miliband to grovel to the Murdoch press, like so many politicians before him, this may prove there need be be no influential link between the media and politics, writes Jay Baker.

We love our beautiful high-tech machines so much that we are prepared to turn a blind eye to the conditions endured by workers to assemble them, writes R. Michael Gosselin.

We may think that social media is ‘free’, but users are simply commodities whose value is determined not just by how many of us there are, but by the real price we are paying for social media: the amount of personal information we freely give out over the networks to companies' actual customers, their advertisers, writes Beth Ingalls.

The old days where friends would meet and chat aimlessly without distraction was long gone. These days, social media and what’s happening on Facebook and the like rule our world, writes Maria Schindlecker.

As European leaders increasingly question the concept of Europe without borders and follow each other in announcing the end of multiculturalism, the media response has been mostly to present migrants as destabilising Europe’s labour markets and welfare states, writes Zoltán Dujisin.

The ubiquitous commercials, print ads, and online and offline billboards that litter our symbolic landscape cater to only our basest values and our most narcissistic tendencies writes former advertising professional Tony Kelso.

Working with open-source technology firm Red Hat inspired Tim Hyer to start Rentcycle. He offers five shared principles between the two.

The ‘fake’ quote attributed to Martin Luther King that did the rounds of social media recently is a timely reminder to writers to check the validity of information before sharing it, writes Kate Geiselman.