...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...
...tanks like the Heritage Foundation, which published two online articles on the subject in March alone. “Chaos From the Sky: Why the EMP Threat is Real” and “The EMP Threat:...
...it? Why are they closing ranks? Who is rendered vulnerable? 13. Little of how these senior scholars have conducted themselves online convinces me that they would have been willing to...
...of a diptych. Bewersdorf is no longer online. If he is, he has cloaked himself in total anonymity. He removed his texts and images from his old portfolio site—as though...
...are not the next housing bubble Exposé of the ACCJC, the accrediting agency that's threatening to shut down CCSF Online class on how to teach online classes goes laughably awry...
...ended in December. After I stopped it, I started writing in different modes, much less online, then writing more what felt like what essays are sometimes supposed to feel like,...
...enthusiastic, worshipful comments like “This is why I love the Internet!” The recent defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) produced many examples of this phenomenon: Lawrence Lessig summarized...
...If your friend sends you a link that looks weird, call or text them to make sure they actually sent it. The most common way people get owned online is...
...six languages. And there is a Catholic presence online outside of Vatican-sponsored activities. You can visit a Catholic Church on Second Life–the most popular 3D virtual community which boasts over...
...the offline population as those who haven’t gone online in the past 12 months. Following the implicit logic of such statistics, it can be easy to assume that being unconnected...
...art is primarily viewed onscreen and online, new strategies are both possible and necessary. The alleged democratization effect afforded by networked technologies is often posited as the most significant recent...
...sexuality “demands racism as a particular form of exogamy.” Theirs was a hidden subculture, but today online dating profiles advertise racial preferences like favorite ice cream flavors. Light-hearted references to...
...money online using a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” as it’s colloquially known. MTurk was started in 2005 by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and director of Amazon Web...
...ultimately accrues to the elite and not ourselves. I worry that the Occupy protesters must also resist replicating this online dynamic in the midst of their efforts of resistance. The...