Spanish researchers, performing fMRI scans on readers, have found that words like perfume and coffee light up the parts of the brain we use for smell. This link between the verbal and physical sensation is no accident. These links offer a round-up of the science of writing:
Your brain on fiction - New York Times
The science of storytelling - LifeHacker
This is your brain on metaphors - New York Times
Heartwarming news on hot coffee - New York Times
Narrative and personal good - On The Human
What listening to a story does to our brains - Buffer
Speaker-listener neuro-coupling in communication -NCBI
This is your life and how you tell is - New York Times
Storytelling and the science of the mind - Project Muse
Storytelling - the key to the brain - FutureMediaChange
Linking social and physical warmth - Bargh and Shalev (PDF)
Observations on the hacking scandal
In light of the News of the World scandal, it is not press regulation that needs to change. It is a culture that exists within some news organisations discouraging journalists from behaving ethically.
Journalism is ALL about credibility
Reaction has been fierce to Independent writer Johann Hari's admission that some of his quotes came from his subjects' books rather than his interviews with them. It's a lesson. Trust is the basis for journalism. Break that contract with the reader and expect to be punished.
Interview technique and the Miliband Loop
It's hard to believe Ed Miliband's PR handlers wanted the interview to turn out like this. He was so determined to get his carefully crafted sound bite on TV that he repeated the same answer over and over, no matter what question was put to him. Fine until the uncut video goes viral. But political interviewing is a game where both sides know the rules. Similar interviews happen all the time. Mr Miliband's problem was that he played with no finesse.
Why should Andrew Marr give up his injunction?
Andrew Marr has told the Daily Mail he is embarrassed about the injunction he took out to stop the paper writing about his private life.
I did not come into journalism to go about gagging journalists, he said.
Everyone is entitled to a private life and injunctions allow invasions of privacy to be stopped before they happen. This is the argument in favour of injunctions. But there is also a strong argument against:
I did not come into journalism to go about gagging journalists, he said.
Everyone is entitled to a private life and injunctions allow invasions of privacy to be stopped before they happen. This is the argument in favour of injunctions. But there is also a strong argument against:
Photojournalists: lives on the line
Working in a war zone is dangerous, the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros remind us. Yet without their bravery, and that of others like them, important stories would never properly be told.
A round-up of tributes and analysis on Storify:
Privacy injunctions and free speech
David Cameron says that privacy law should be made by Parliament rather than judges. The PM was responding to a series of injunctions restricting what newspapers and others can publish about certain famous people's private lives.
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| Does court protection of celeb privacy go too far? |
- Fred Goodwin gets superinjunction to stop him being called a banker -- Guardian
- Premiership footballer who cheated with Imogen Thomas is told his secret is safe as court tightens injunction -- Mirror
- Married TV star wins worldwide gagging order from judge -- Telegraph
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