Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
Judging Books by Their Covers
...content of the conversation with the selected artist. As with art objects, these books cater to a collector’s impulse. A reader who buys one is often compelled to buy another,...
No Purchase Necessary
...online purchasing habits and then ex post facto generates fake clicks on ads that could have but in fact didn’t lead the consumer to their point of conversion. Experts estimate...
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...tech industries that some adjacent word such as "hip" is needed to describe those online voices who proceeded to hate on Long and deem Hodgman to be the cool one....
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
So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
...media, has an erotic element. Like anyone who commands attention, a writer controls and manipulates bodies, but as this new form of online writing — so far defined more by...
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...
The Virtual Watchers
...Angelo, Texas, and was responsible for running the entire online operation of the participatory surveillance initiative. This company was in charge of receiving the reports submitted through the site and...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
True Stories
...mainstream publications online, places like Slate, the online New York Times and New York magazine — a personal essay followed by a comments section filled with insults and complaints —...
Cold Cases
...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...
The Myth of Cyberspace
...online affects us offline and vice versa — that both comprise the same friends, the same conversations, the same events. Yet the collective fantasy of cyberspace and all its related...
Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
...We profile writers and run mini-workshops online. We're a support platform for African writers and publications featuring African writers. I guess I mainly just know SSDA from the anthologies! Could...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...purposes. Privilege, misery, racism, abuse of power, and 'surviving in hell': 'We're organizing.' [Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7n-dUi_ZE While doctors were overwhelmed, under-equipped, and indignant by the number of injuries flooding their hospitals,...
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
Hanford Idyll
...threat compared to the more pervasive scourge of human habitation. As one scientist quoted in National Geographic explained the phenomenon: “‘nature flourishes when humans are removed from the equation, even...