{"title": "How social media changed politics globally", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/media/social-media"], "description": "A public lecture held in person and online, exploring how social media has reshaped politics around the world. It is hosted by the Department of Management, with speaker Professor Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and chair Professor Sarah Ashwin. Drawing on over a decade of research, the talk examines how mobile broadband, algorithmic feeds and social media have contributed to declining trust in political elites, the erosion of incumbent parties, the growth of anti-establishment movements on the extreme right, and new forms of protest. 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It is presented by Novara Media, with Ash Sarkar sitting down with Owen Jones to discuss his new book, The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It. Jones argues that the West's decline is the work of a power-hungry ruling class rather than migrants, Muslims or a 'woke mob', tracing a path from Afghanistan and Iraq through the 2008 crash to Gaza today. The evening will also touch on whether Burnham's Labour marks a real break from Starmerism, and all funds support Novara Media's journalism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/novara-medias-downstream-irl-the-fall-of-the-west-35779/", "official_url": "https://earthackney.co.uk/events/novara-medias-downstream-irl-the-fall-of-the-west-16th-nov-earth-london-tickets-g5v25a/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bbeca806b1895ece3f79cc3d098e0c8cbada08d7e70777a903bf9ce37883178-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Conspiracy Without Theory? Exploring the Past and Present of Conspiratorial Thinking", "start": "2026-11-19T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T15:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/conspiracy-theories"], "description": "A seminar examining conspiratorial thinking, drawing on three far-reaching conspiracy theories that emerged across the twentieth century and exploring how they morph and adapt over time. It contrasts these with newer, shallow claims spread on social media, often branded 'conspiracism' or 'conspiracy without the theory'. The speakers are Gill Bennett, former FCO official historian and author of The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies; Izabella Tabarovsky, fellow at the Wilson Center and historian of Soviet propaganda; and Phil Tinline, journalist and author of Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax That Duped America and Its Sinister Legacy. Michael Weatherburn of Imperial College chairs the session.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/conspiracy-without-theory-exploring-the-past-and-present-of-74090/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/213077/conspiracy-without-theory-exploring-the-past-and-present-of-conspiratorial-thinking/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee4385aee2cd3de65010068fc426edd6b963dfcbc3d6c136b69b4d893c31c445-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The challenges to peace and democracy in the Middle East", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-east", "society/politics"], "description": "A public panel discussion, in person on campus and streamed online, on the growing challenges to peace and democracy across the Middle East. 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