...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...
...online spaces, show up to and engage in person with a movement that has ignored all our best efforts at talking back to it. We are called upon to physically...
...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....
...online presence. It can make us seem vaguely suspicious, as though we have something to hide. Thus the vaunted network effects that the Web harnesses begin to come at the...
...the music being discussed had arrived in the public consciousness in the usual way, via record labels. Eventually, though, participants in online music culture started making our own things. Our...
...anthropologist Cédric Parizot, looks critically at an online platform of 20,633 volunteers across the globe surveilling the US-Mexico border Crowdsourcing surveillance Since 2010 I have been researching forms of virtual...
...worth the effort. Love may be the last sanctuary for the idea that struggle can be rewarding. If it vanishes, and love goes entirely the way of online dating, toward...
...emerges, and conflicts between various parties online have IRL consequences. This is the exact opposite of an anonymizing effect. The Internet is as much a source of community and a...
...undermines the effectiveness of the stories as stories, as thought-provoking glimpses of unvarnished humanity. Stories that require nuance and suspended judgment get neither when told online as personal narratives, as...
...any of the businesses present at the announcement. For example: CVS … is offering $5 off any purchase of $20 (redeemable in-store or online) for consumers getting an updated COVID-19...
White American nostalgia is neurotically fixated on social constructions that are imagined dead even as they become stronger, as evidenced by the twin histories of the mall and the Midwest
...image by imp kerr Social gaming and cloud computing are powerful alibis for always-on digital-rights management, which makes players into tenants SimCity, Electronic Arts’ online multiplayer reboot of...
...Litel — and I will be inspired to write a series of tweets about online circulation and its various measures displacing other forms of content with which to make up...
...in it last year, cementing Rap Genius’ place as one of 2012’s biggest online music coups. But Rap Genius presents problems old and new: Is the site’s network of lyric...