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...
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...
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
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...
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...
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...
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir
In this exclusive excerpt from their new book Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas contextualize the twin-snake history of Israel and India and how the occupation of Palestine informs the occupation of Kashmir.
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...
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...
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....
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
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...
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part III)
...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...
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
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...