The world is not small—in fact, through the lens of culture, it is vast. Peeps Magazine puts culture and context before events, bringing investigative stories from corners around the world, offering readers engaging analysis and authoritative insight into contemporary human affairs.

Issue 01—The Modern Protagonist— The impact of digital technology on shaping the modern world is undeniable. Our access to increasingly affordable ways of plugging in and reaching out are inducing powerful changes to the world we live in. The cotton gin, the printing press and the automobile have all produced global cultural shifts in their time, but we’ve never witnessed change brought with the speed and breadth as with the use of digital.

Peeps Issue 1 takes on the question of what these cultural changes look like and who is most affected by them. Anthropologist Victor Barac delves into Belgrade's hiphop culture to uncover links between accessible technology and the growth of an art form. Graham Candy brings us the diaosi, China’s “loser” generation: youth for whom the Chinese dream is out of reach and who find consolation in online gaming communities. Teresa Bean looks beneath the veneer of the recent transformation of Medellin, Colombia, once known as the most violent city in the world, recently awarded the title most innovative city by the Urban Land Institute.

Our business and design stories include a piece by Gavin Johnston which reveals findings from a pharmaceutical research project focused on identifying a dangerous anomaly in patient treatment for young men with haemophilia; and Sam Ladner, Senior User Experience Researcher at Microsoft, speaks to Peeps about the experience of working as a sociologist in business. Other stories in Issue 1 take us to India, Iceland, Papua New Guinea, Cuba and more.

Peeps is a thought-provoking and beautiful magazine that deserves a permanent place on your bookshelf.

144 pages, full color, printed on Rolland premium recycled paper.