In the first episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, a new podcast marking 250 years since the author’s birth, we speak to Austen experts about her relationship with gossip.
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Listen to Andrew Dodd on The Conversation Weekly podcast on the long, transactional relationship between Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch.
Workers talking about the boss can be dismissed as gossip. But managers talking about staff are just doing their job. Welcome to the gossip paradox.
A new study explains why gossip is in the ear of the beholder – the perceived motivations of the gossiper make all the difference.
The new TV series, Feud: Capote vs the Swans tells the story behind Answered Prayers, the never-finished gossip novel that made its author a social pariah. But what was in the book – and was it any good?
Our study found that parasocial relationships can turn sour, with love and adoration replaced by feelings of hostility and even hatred.
Like the rest of Australia, we have been following the world cup with growing emotional intensity. From the group chat to TikTok, the online alt-commentary on the game has been a joy.
The explosive viral spread of the grainy but dramatic footage shows the limits of mainstream media ethics.
Gossip has a long history in forming social bonds, and can be an important part of the workplace.
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Research Fellow in Management, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Marketing, Cardiff University
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Associate researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, The University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Reader in Psychology, University of Westminster
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Professor of Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University
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Reader in Romanticisms, Edge Hill University
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Reader in Marketing, Cardiff University