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title: "Fictional character in the social media age, war photography, and serendipitous science"
date: "2015-04-29T10:43:59+01:00"
modified: "2015-04-29T10:43:59+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2015/04/29/fictional-character-in-the-social-media-age-war-photography-and-serendipitous-science/"
post_id: 6387
categories: ["Uncategorised"]
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# Fictional character in the social media age, war photography, and serendipitous science

1. [Who is Eleni Haifa?](/articles/4864/who-is-eleni-haifa)In the cover essay from our Spring issue, Paul Mason explores how the rise of information technology is transforming the way we think about human character.
2. [Taking off the mask: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels](/articles/4866/taking-off-the-mask-elena-ferrantes-neapolitan-novels)Fatema Ahmed on the Italian writer Elena Ferrante’s compelling books, which combines the novel with feminist polemic.
3. [War photography in the age of social media](/articles/4857/war-photography-in-the-age-of-social-media)Photojournalist Paul Lowe talks to Alice Bloch about his work and images of conflict.
4. [The afterglow of creation](/articles/4849/the-afterglow-of-creation)The story of cosmic background radiation is a classic example of the chaotic way in which scientific discoveries occur, writes Marcus Chown.
5. [The Church rejected me because I’m gay](/articles/4853/the-church-rejected-me-because-im-gay)Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Ralph Jones about how personal experience has shaped his ideas about sex and Christianity.

[March’s top long-reads](/articles/4850/religion-and-violence-jimmy-mubenga-and-tv-melancholia)

[More on our Spring issue – out now](/articles/4834/the-spring-2015-new-humanist-is-out-now)