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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Summer of Love and the Holy Fair
...that the concert industry is actually doing better now than it was before the pandemic? A widely-shared German study from 2021 proclaimed that “mass gathering events” like arena shows “contribute...
Health Equity Capture
How the weight-loss industry Uses Black celebrity in the Ozempic era
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....