Resisting The Chilling Effect
...their exchange a calculated and Machiavellian act. The online forum is thus overwhelmed by the monetization of information. The lure of instant publication and the dizzying proliferation of gossip gone...
Massively Open Online Police State
...kind of war without end world destabilization that today's patriotic consumers demand. We have to do better. Massive online surveillance is not new. As techno-utopian Evgeny Morozov has demonstrated, governments...
The IRL Fetish
...collectively mourning the loss of that which is proliferating? In great part, the reason is that we have been taught to mistakenly view online as meaning not offline. The notion...
The Fog of More
...the display of lots of information online has itself come to symbolize transparent, healthy democracy. But when a state disgorges useless and disorganized information, it swamps our capacity to make...
Digital Dark Spaces
...instance, however, I think analyzing hook-ups and cruising online through the prism of physical space, particularly cruising space, is instructive. or their constant intersections, the practice of cruising shouldn’t be...
The Trouble with Digital Conservatism
...life as carried out online begins to more closely resemble our experience of the contemporary public sphere, itself entirely colonized by commercial messages and decodable contiguites of brands. On Facebook,...
Athletic Aesthetics
...Parker Ito, America Online Made Me Hardcore, 2013 A new species of hyperproductive artist flooding the Internet with content invites audiences to complete their work by loving their...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Graphic Interface
...a speedy person in general, so I can keep up online. Sometimes, if you throw an altered state onto your creative process, you see something from a new angle. But...
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...ignoring each other as they engage with their iPhones; the compulsive sharers on social networks who leave no private experience unmediated and recapitulated online; our own restless oscillation between email...
Virulence in the Virtual
...groundbreaking article in the Village Voice, entitled, “A Rape in Cyberspace.” The first extensively printed account of virtual rape, Dibbell’s article describes the attempts of LambdaMOO, a text-based online community,...
Narrative of Fragments
...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...
Eminent Domain
...act solely as photo-shoot studios, and their audiences are entirely online. Parallelograms, Gallerie 5, and Domain Gallery are a few of the many artist-run online galleries showing web-based works that...
The History of Dialogue: Naked Online
...nudity on the internet and online pornography? Helena: The ubiquity of one necessitates a more precise definition of the other. An image of a naked body is no longer necessarily...
Why These Tweets Are Called My Back
...first things said to me about my abuser when I faced some of my online abuse in the form of misgendering was, “But she does good work.” Every discussion of...
Coming of Age in Modern Dystopia
...social life unfolding online. Relationships change and feelings for others are molded by what is seen on social media feeds. One misinterpreted Instagram pic or tweet can end a relationship....