...currency. I’m not enough of a curmudgeon to suggest that online communication is inherently without value, or that our online interactions aren’t authentic, “real” expressions of human bonding. I think...
...wealthy clients’ behest. These firms offer services that are not so different from those advertised by bot formers selling SoundCloud plays and Instagram followers via online marketplaces like Fiverr. A...
...prove that I am "better" than those social pleasures of validation that are now so readily sought for online. I want records so I can try to remind myself that...
...Google Making Us Stupid?,” have found that we do not truly engage in online content, preferring to “power browse.” We scan the headlines for information or search for items of...
...large volume of support she received online and the activity of researchers earnestly devoted to this technology. While this tension between knowing and exceeding our physical limitations is perennial, it...
...the poems not attributed to individual poets? When the project went online for public view (as opposed to being created and shared on listserves) the general consensus was that the...
...freely as detached signifieds. It permits us to let an accumulative, shopping mentality govern everything we do online. This was already implicit in the principle of bookmarking; you claim pages...
...way to cement the bond between reader and news brand, but are ipso facto democratizing. The online expression of voice, political participation, and democracy are smoothly, unproblematically equated. In an...
...of Oxfordshire, UK, a commissioning couple featured in the Daily Mail in 2012. To couples like these, surrogates are presented as transnational reproductive-service workers, their job description posted online and...
...you know for sure whether you have anxiety after probing the possibility online? Pharmaceutical companies certainly hope to persuade you. Self-diagnosis on sites like WebMD can drive drug-company profits, and...
...plastic, and why. As the price of plastic creeps up, we can start bringing alternative materials online. A good example is switching disposable cutlery to bioderived, compostable plastics — there's...
...changed his mind, one imagines, but because he’d simply become exhausted by Internet trolls and declared a truce. Gamers are a force to be reckoned with online, uniting with absurd...
...that we do not truly engage in online content, preferring to “power browse.” We scan the headlines for information or search for items of temporary entertainment value. Our minds are...
...readers like me who follow online first, is its proximity and, as you write early on, its polyphony. For example, I've connected to scenes in Robert Bresson movies I'm actually...