The Writing Cure
...I had assumed myself to represent. One online women’s magazine (which I now write for) described as “disgusting” what they saw as my desperate plea for attention. Sex workers contacted...
Speaking to No One
...is a way of listening (and “doing no more than listening”) to oneself. So the relevant opposition is not online/offline but communication/broadcasting. You can communicate online or offline, preserving the...
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
Light a Fire Under the DNC
...spent $1 million ensuring online critics, including those within the Democratic Party, were met with a centrist backlash online. But while the DNC was convincing the media it had a...
Beauty Blogosphere 2.17.12
...browser: Baby boomers buy more cosmetics online than other age groups, which makes total sense to me. I wouldn't buy makeup online unless I knew it was exactly what I...
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...online, among others. She's associate editor of the forthcoming book Women in Clothes . You can follow her on Tumblr and Twitter. ______________________________ "Perfume seemed part and...
Whips With Friends
...pull-down menu of exact events, occurrences, and accessories may be exactly how people accustomed to online shopping at three in the morning from the comfort of their living room naturally...
The Paper Chase
...teacher. (Professor Randall Wray, for instance, told me that he includes a Buckaroo requirement for every economics class he teaches, with the exception of fully online courses.) The Cincinnati Time...
Sunday Reading
...to a woman than pretend she exists" Snapchats From My Mom; No Results; UpGoer Your Ph.D. ReclaimUC: Yudof is stepping down! Addressing the austerity lock-in at public universities UC online,...
Sunday Reading
...City Council meeting A plan for a safer Oakland: Critical Resistance Depression and Money, Some Real Talk 16-year-old Temitayo Fagbenle reports on sexual bullying online (audio) Facial weaponization: Fag Face...
Hangar to Grave
...occasion was one not only for seeing how a plane is actually constructed, then, but as well for redoubling and disseminating such a view-being-taken. Of course everything migrates online these...
Contained selves
...online, and though its ramifications and consequences cannot be fully quarantined there, they can be preserved, and thereby be made seemingly worthwhile, productive. I have been thinking about this while...
There Will Be a Memoir: Chinua Achebe and Biafra
...have so far surfaced seem to “encourage ethnocentricity,” and have “furthered ethnic cyber-war on social media and online pages of national newspapers.” People are particularly up in arms because of...
Reimagining Networks
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
The Accidental Audience
...and walled gardens present in social networks, several recent art projects have exceeded the bounds of their original context, gaining a large non-art-related audience en route to online virality. These...
No Purchase Necessary
...online purchasing habits and then ex post facto generates fake clicks on ads that could have but in fact didn’t lead the consumer to their point of conversion. Experts estimate...