Over Easy
...workers—and egg donors in particular—need to prove that they are the right candidates for the job. As with other kinds of job applications, a lot of this is done online....
zero-knowledge proofs
...a neglected area of castles studies – the spiral stair. [full study | PDF] as restaurants increasingly receive takeout orders online and through apps, they face a new challenge called...
Very Serious Populists
...Ben Shahn Voting Booths (1950) The point of online voting systems like Reddit is not to highlight the best content, but to build and maintain hegemony There is...
The Disconnectionists
...always had been. Despite his great ascetic effort, he could not reach escape velocity from the Internet. Instead he found an “inextricable link” between life online and off, between flesh...
Out of Sight
...of the calls was worth paying. Blind people from around the world have access to many technologies that get us online. Windows screen readers speak what’s on the screen, and...
Healthy Boundaries
...bloggers at Computerworld discussed the act of watch-wearing in terms of performativity, another online community took to social media to describe a more visceral response to the sleek piece of...
Wikipedia Politics
...a strange frame for the evanescent, ephemeral editing of an online encyclopedia. The sheer ambition of Wikipedia’s mission, “to make the sum total of human knowledge available for free to...
Games of Truth
...have to build the community (that once was geographical) as an online audience and hold it together by performing for it perpetually. The truth test becomes a way to ascertain...
The Failure Addict
...around the different places online where someone might send some indication that they have noticed me, send some message that tells me I exist — one that says, Everyone thought...
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
...year: “As you read this online, the United States government makes a note.” And as more recent reporting from the Times and ProPublica has disclosed, this is made possible not...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...a “connected world” all around you, and there is no denying that being online metes out “connectedness” in measured, addictive doses. But those doses contain real sociality, and they are...
Games of Truth
...the productive value of our uniquely wrought subjectivity to garner social recognition; we have to build the community (that once was a geographical given) as an online audience and hold...
Coming & Crying
...online via the website Kickstarter, which they then plan to take to an on-demand press. Their goal was $3,000. At present they’ve garnered $4,728 from 114 backers (of which, yes,...
Social media as masochism
...it intensifies it. Not only would this let us keep obeying the imperative to “express ourselves” and build out our all-important online reputations and networks, but it would allow us...
Permanent Records
...my feelings change with time. When I look at my middle school students post photos and videos of themselves online, I have the instinctual reaction of adult horror at the...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...drawers into the trash — adding an egg and chopped peanuts to their instant ramen!), so too has trolling appeared to go beyond its existence online. “In another image, he...