Fear of Screens
...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...
TNI Vol. 13 Editorial Note: Bartlebea the Dater
...Love in the Time of Algorithms, which poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance?...
The Acquisitive Gaze
...shopping mentality govern everything we do online. 8. Consumerism once limited this sort of self-expression to what one can afford. But with Pinterest, users can simulate the acquisition of things...
SEO & The Disappearing Self
...(via) “On Facebook, our communication is assessed like online advertising — how many click-throughs did it inspire? This prompts us to make what we say on Facebook sound...
Sunday Reading
...the NSA’s sins Massively Open Online Police State Doktorgeschwister A history of liberal anti-unionism The baby in “Salt of the Earth” ended up working at Walmart. “Nuclear power is fine,...
‘I don’t want to be 20 cent’ –50 cent
...blankets. In 2020 in the U.S., 59% of online recruitment of sex trafficking victims took place on Facebook. […] 65% of identified child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media...
Natural’s Not In It
...shampoo; others complain about the “unnaturalness” of antibiotics, hormonal birth control, or monogamy. Judging from various Paleo forums online, homeschooling is fairly popular, as are hairy men, eating with one’s...
Spook’d
...art and criticism online. I have yet to figure out how to translate Spook to the web in a creative way. Although, a digital version of the magazine will be...
From Mega-Machines to Mega-Algorithms
...Google. Coursera, a for-profit online education startup, also needs translators’ labor, so it can sell its MOOCs (massive open online courses) in other languages. So in April 2014, it created...
Your Friends and Neighbors
...her job at a Christian highschool after the photos went online. G., or someone purporting to be her, responded, swearing to sue. But it didn’t work out that way. G....
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...poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance? After all, dating sites still generate actual...
Hungry for Love
...whether exchanging their young sex for the hazy cultural capital of performing at the New Museum was exploitive. Online, conversations flared over the sexually violent undertones of NY NY HP...
–⁂–(⨂__⨂)–⁂–
...them has been published online yet. It’s 130+ pages of original, unseen critical work on drones, illustrated and designed by Imp Kerr. As far as we can tell, it’s the...
No Life Stories
...to assess people. Thanks to the services’ ongoing proliferation, it has become increasingly inconvenient to take part in any social activity—from making a purchase to conversing with friends online to...
The Luck of the Listserve
...art by Adam Simpson The Listserve brings online strangers together in an era oversaturated with friends “Like all the men of Babylon,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges in The...
The Plague Years
...brief foray online suggests that there are productive ways to take advantage of the virality of social networks. In his concluding chapter, he goes on to suggest that there are...