"Modern media and technology constantly remind us to preserve our memory and protect our history. However, memory is ...

A lot of us love to scroll on social media so most will be familiar with term "brain rot" - but for parents, the word isn't in their vocabulary which is clear to see with a hilarious new TikTok trend.

I teach a course on the relationship between social media and society at Durham College. As part of their assessments, I ask ...

Okay, if you have a teenager in your life, it’s a safe bet you have been challenged to define – or say – “brain rot words”. Some of them quite funny… like this one – But, Gen Z isn’t the first to have ...

Jessica Roy’s article titled "If You Know What 'Brain Rot' Means, You Might Already Have It", published in in The New York Times, highlights the issue. Frankly, I feel partly afflicted ...

The term “brain rot” dates back to Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden,but in the digital age, it has become Oxford University Press’ 2024 Word of the Year. With people averaging nearly seven hours ...

Harmless fun, right? But hours pass, and you’re left wondering: is my brain still in gear? Enter “brain rot,” Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year, perfectly capturing the creeping fear that our digital ...

Pope Francis made the remark at the Jubilee of the World of Communications in Rome, an event which attracted around 9,000 journalists and writers from 138 countries, both in person and online.

Slowly, although not imperceptibly, short-form internet content has become not only the norm, but in many ways a dominant method of how people consume anything from memes to news and even music.

In 2024, “brain rot” wasn’t just a TikTok buzzword—it was officially crowned the word of the year. And honestly, could anything have summed up our collective mental state better? From doomscrolling ...

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Officials in South Africa, the world’s biggest exporter of citrus after Spain, discovered bud rot in commercial papaya orchards in two provinces and warned farmers to exercise caution when ...