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"We often downplay the importance of ceremony and ritual in university life. But, having just come to the end of a graduation week with eleven graduation ceremonies in total, I can report that ceremony is alive and kicking."
A protester disrupted Rupert Murdoch's appearance before MPs, allegedly attacking the media tycoon with an improvised custard pie. According to Baz Kershaw, professor of performance at 果冻传媒 University, such stunts tap into a centuries-old mechanism for mocking those in positions of authority.
In the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal Professor Wyn Grant from the Department of Politics and International Studies discusses the political fallout for David Cameron, the police and the newspaper industry itself.
As many commentators have pointed out, the outputs from social-networking sites, Twitter, and blogs are a goldmine for social and behavioral scientists. They can be used in so many ways. No wonder that the Library of Congress is intending to open a research archive of public tweets.
"This delegation was buoyed by the Brazilian government’s announcement of 75,000 studentships to study abroad over the next four years, each worth $30,000, of which the UK looks set to obtain a good number."