FUNK !T | Mindful Media & Communication

Two stories this week that look completely unrelated. A presidential phone call to a football governing body. A celebrity wedding at Madison Square Garden with zero authorised photos. Both ended the same way: the people...

The World Cup is back. 48 teams, three host countries, billions of eyeballs, and — somehow — Saudi Aramco as an official sponsor. Sure. This week we go good, bad, and ugly on the 2026 FIFA World Cup through a media and...

<p>I'm back from Berlin. Three days at re:publica — Europe's biggest digital culture conference — and I have thoughts.</p><p>The good news: the room was packed. People sat on the floor and stood in the doorway to hear a...

<p>This past week three things happened. The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened globally to $234M — a film about an industry that sacrifices craft for speed, made by sacrificing craft for speed. The first half and second half...

<p>We're heading into the final weeks of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - CBS' number one show for nine straight seasons. The official reason: "purely a financial decision." Two weeks earlier, Colbert had criticised...

<p>Justin Bieber’s 2026 Coachella headline set wasn't just a concert; it was a real-time renegotiation of the performer-audience contract.</p><p>This week on FUNK !T, we analyze the most polarizing performance of the...

<p>In this episode of the FUNK !T podcast, we are tackling the profound shift in political communication defining 2026.</p><p>Forget traditional propaganda designed to change your mind. Today’s governments, domestic...

<p>The US military released footage of the Iran strikes this week. It was edited. It had music. It cut like an action trailer. 40 million impressions in 24 hours — before most people thought to ask what they were...

<p>You cannot build a 19th-century border wall around a 21st-century cloud.</p><p>Body:This week, the German government (CDU) pushed a motion to strictly ban social media for youth under 14, requiring digital ID...

<p>Recording from the streets of Bangkok, Sascha Funk analyzes the city not as a tourist destination, but as a living motherboard. Using the framework of "Splintering Urbanism" and Marc Augé’s concept of the...

<p>Prediction markets like Polymarket have turned the news cycle into a casino. But this isn't just about gambling; it's about the Gamification of Reality. We have moved from being "Citizens" (who try to influence...

<p>In the final week of Milano Cortina, we are witnessing the collision of "Sport" and "Surveillance Capitalism." When a curling match is decided by a capacitive touch sensor rather than a human eye, we have entered...

<p>Every February, the world pretends it’s watching sports.</p><p><br></p><p>But what we’re really watching is spectacle.</p><p><br></p><p>From Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, to the Winter Olympics’ performance...

<p>This weekend, the U.S. Department of Justice released millions of pages of Epstein-related documents under a legal transparency mandate.<br>No leak. No whistleblower. No cinematic reveal.</p><p>And yet, the story...

<p>Every January, global power gathers in a Swiss village to talk about fixing the world. Panels, speeches, statements. And yet, the crises remain. In this episode of FUNK !T, we break down what the World Economic Forum...