Has AI Really Killed the Author?
Roland Barthes did not wait for artificial intelligence (AI). More than fifty years before the emergence of ChatGPT, the French…
Tom van Laer
Professor of persuasive language and storytelling, SKEMA Business School
Want to Know if People Are Angry? Don’t (Just) Look at Social Media
Social media does not have a monopoly on public anger. According to a study by Tom van Laer, Professor of…
Chuck Norris Didn’t Become Famous. Fame Became Chuck Norris
The “Chuck Norris Facts” – those absurds jokes about the actor that have circulated online for nearly tenty years –…
Does Success Determine the Value of a Cultural Work?
One of the recurring obsessions of European conservative parties is the criticism of public subsidies for the cultural sector. Why,…