Dating Games
...areas is “personal relationships,” I’m designing a vaguely rummy-like card game about online dating. (The conference encourages experimental formats.) My game is called “OkMatch!” which not only puns two popular...
The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...it’s interesting to note that Inside Higher Education’s new booklet of essays, “The MOOC moment,” introduces its subject by writing that: “The acronym MOOC (for massive open online course) first...
From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
Don't Be a Stranger
...(not his real name). I was taking some time off from college in Portland, Oregon and had become an active member of a Portland-based online DIY community called Urban Honking....
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part 1)
A timeline of covid normalization in the US in 2022
Palestine is Free (If You Want It)
The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.
Who Can You Trust?
...Online, the Named garment is your friend. The fact that she didn’t know it made Minnie even more of a knockout. In one strut she was timeless; In...
Cookie Cutters
...NEC SX-3, 1984 Online advertising is a self-regulated industry, which means you tangle with it entirely on its terms The signature, once the widely accepted seal of approval,...
Hi Haters!
...argue that "microfame" is a structure of feeling for coping with mandatory requirements to construct identity online. THE “BALD BRITNEY” CONUNDRUM On February 16, 2007, having just left a rehab...
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Single Servings
...Time of Algorithms invites us to daydream about escaping the prisonhouse of the couple form and the disorienting yet irresistible sexual abundance that online dating has supposedly wrought. To enable...
Flatland
...of art, usually installed within a gallery—are posted to the Internet and then dispersed and multiplied via likes and shares, online viewers become the overwhelming majority of an exhibition’s audience....
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
...both on and offline. But recent findings regarding the widespread misogyny entrenched in these systems leaves one asking: how can we understand instances of online abuse and update Haraway’s cyborgian...
Tree Sitting
...way of thinking about and describing how education can occur online in the most optimistic terms. It’s a way of taking a thing as non-specific and formless as “disruption” and...
On Privatization and Brutalizing Campuses
...the force meted out on student bodies on campus and long-developed plans to chart new directions for the university -- in China and as an online university -- are not...
Alienated Nerds
NFTs as gentrified fandom and the destruction of cultural autonomy in the digital age