The rise of personal tech and a growing focus on the self may be diminishing our ability to empathise. But storytelling can bypass this self-absorption by putting the audience in other people’s shoes. The Tribeca Film Festival has launched the ‘See Yourself in Others’ campaign to highlight this.

Studies show that our ability to empathise has greatly diminished over the last 30 years. It’s due in part to the uptake of smartphones and social media – we’re all too busy thinking about ourselves. But while it might be part of the problem, could technology also be used to make us more empathetic?

Averaging 2.2 million listeners per episode, NPR’sSerialpodcast is not just a cultural phenomenon, but a game-changer for a formally underappreciated medium. But why has the story of a 1999 murder in Baltimore struck such a chord? And what is it about the lure of audio that’s driving a talk radio revival?

The period immediately after the 2016 presidential election has seen a flurry of reports and think pieces analysing what exactly led to Donald Trump’s triumph. At the heart of these discussions is the ‘alt-right’, but who are the people behind this group? What do they believe and why do they believe it?