How do emotions help construct our cultural identity in music festivals? 2022 was a record year for music festivals in Spain, hitting historic highs just two years after the entire country was locked down due to the pandemic. Spain boasts close to a thousand music festivals and a live music industry that earned 459 million euros in ticket revenue alone in 2022. This is almost 200% more than the previous year, according to figures from the Anuario de la Música en Vivo 2023 (2023 Live Music Yearbook) produced by the country's Music Promoters' Association.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-....emotions-cultural-id

Study shows female gamers only label half of sexual harassment incidents they experience as such A new study from the Kinsey Institute reveals that only 50.5% of women who were targets of sexual harassment during online gaming identified qualifying incidents as such. This figure dropped further to only 42.2% for women who witnessed sexual harassment of other women while gaming.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-....female-gamers-sexual

How reports of community firearm violence are framed on local television news in Philadelphia Two new studies published in Preventive Medicine Reports and BMC Public Health led by corresponding author Jessica H. Beard, MD, MPH, FACS, of Temple University, more closely examine how reports of community firearm violence are framed on local television news in Philadelphia and the downstream effects of that coverage on the general public's perception of the issue.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-....community-firearm-vi

Study exposes alarming risks to Scotland's food delivery couriers A new study highlighting the risks encountered by food delivery couriers reveals a majority feel 'unsafe' when at work with every woman surveyed having experienced sexual harassment or abuse.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-....exposes-alarming-sco

'Doing your own research' can make fake news seem believable While it's healthy to question what we see and hear in the media, those quick internet searches to fact-check news stories can unexpectedly backfire and lead people to believe false stories, according to the director of the University of Oregon's undergraduate journalism program.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-....fake-news-believable