Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...pursue online — not just explicit knowledge production (writing, editing, producing content) but also sharing information about ourselves, building profiles, conducting economic exchange, organizing cultural information, providing commentaries and so...
Emails show Steve Jobs referred to Facebook as ‘Fecebook’
...from the opposing team while sitting with our fellow fans in a football stadium. Online, we’re connected with our communities, and we seek approval from our like-minded peers. We bond...
Streaming Services
...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...
Cold Cases
...Internet, they also get caught making mistakes online. Kolker himself argues that technology makes it harder to get away with murder: In [Joel] Rifkin’s day, Craigslist and Backpage didn’t exist....
The Virtual Watchers
...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...
Love Worth Fighting For
...we conceive it quantitatively, as the data-driven online realm encourages, as the sum of our choices. And the internet is nothing if not the illusion of infinite choices, homogenized into...
True Stories
...be a great story; it’s just not a news story. Online publications represent this type of writing as “journalism” and publish it in forums where readers expect journalistic standards of...
Mall Gothic
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
The Resentment Machine
...most taken with the internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s spent a considerable amount of their time online talking about what it meant that they were online. In...
Footnote Records
...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...
So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
...attachment to leather gloves, for that matter — is as new as online shopping. Long after all his writing was lost to history, the Greek cynic Diogenes remained famous in...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...American Artist, A Refusal (2015), Online performance, Ongoing In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the...
Own to Rent
...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...
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
The Viral Self
...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...