...do cute things online – is it a shallow dismissable time-waster? Sure. But it also shows how much space animals take up in our collective imagination, and how much time...
...of any particular other person. One is simply emotionally competent, in the abstract. Thus online dating preconceives any potential intimacy as generic. But in reality, intimacy reveals itself in unpredictable...
...when she discusses a “world of screens,” or when she laments “the pull of the online world” away from the real world of humans. “We turn to our phones instead...
...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,...
...While the attention economy rewards ubiquity and large networks, the prestige economy relies on scarcity and exclusion. The open nature of Internet real estate has forced the online art community...
...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...
...no longer exists. But there is perhaps too strict a delineation in Fox's descriptions of the online world (cyberspace) and IRL (meatspace), not least when it comes to risk. The...
...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...
...these can’t be the status quo. DR: At least that’s something. SG: One of your commands for online conduct is to “Be yourself.” What separates your vision of online transparency...
...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...
...coined the term “digital dualism” to describe: the habit of viewing the online and offline as largely distinct. The common (mis)understanding is experience is zero-sum: time spent online means less...
...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...
...as moral, as honest, and as “of the people” as even he himself would like to be is irrelevant to his ability to play that role in practice, and in...