By Ramsha Khan While ideological clashes between the West and the Islamic world have occurred more frequently in recent years, rarely has a singular action created such a polarised divide between traditional culture and the freedom of expression as the one sparked by the depiction of Islam’s prophet Mohamed in Western media. The issue has …
By Andrew Kelly On April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere gathered himself and set off at mid-night riding North, as Malcolm Gladwell writes, to warn the resistance that the British were indeed coming. He was able to effectively galvanise them and had them ready and waiting. This ability to provoke such a response is what Gladwell calls, …
By Prithvi Hirani and Scott Edwards. KONY 2012 has succeeded in capturing public imagination across the globe via the medium of social media. The campaign’s 30-minute video clip is slickly produced, emotive and has received over 50 million hits since its launch on the 5th of March, provoking immediate reactionary responses in the impulsive online world of …
