Podcast Out
A sense of ennui and overdetermination binds the audience of NPR podcasts together in a bloc of obnoxious explainerism.
Community Slander
Anonymity online may engender individual harassment, but voting and ranking in apps allows groups to harass groups
Naming Nameless
Gabriella Coleman’s history of the Anonymous collective is as much about her complicity in the group’s attention-seeking tactics as it is about the group itself.
Vapor Eyes
E-cigarettes are social consumption, not private vice. They keep us addicted not so much to nicotine as to each other
Very Serious Populists
The point of voting systems is not to highlight the best content but to build and maintain a hegemonic discourse