...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...
...Walsh is a writer, illustrator, and artist. She draws and writes for The Guardian, The Times, Metro, The Idler, FiveDials, 3:AM, Berfrois.com, Necessaryfiction.com, and The White Review, amongst others. She...
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
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
...ways our own labor alienates us from our fuller selves. (The piece isn’t fully available online, but Sole-Smith has written about it at her blog and in these ungated pieces,...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...riots, it was of these I wrote to you, these drawings we could not find online but beside me in the cafe was the other thing, two terrible people who...
...tested and refined. With the rise of massively multiplayer online games, the presence of an Internet connection becomes the point. You need to be connected in order to play with...
...in it last year, cementing Rap Genius’ place as one of 2012’s biggest online music coups. But Rap Genius presents problems old and new: Is the site’s network of lyric...
...Litel — and I will be inspired to write a series of tweets about online circulation and its various measures displacing other forms of content with which to make up...
...photos, endlessly falsified and therefore perfectible online personas, we are all invited to construct ourselves closer to what we dream of being than what we simply are. Authenticity becomes a...
...hundreds of social-media accounts in order to produce identifiable “voices” of “ambitious young men and women.” He labeled the totality of their social presence an “online sitcom.” His previous party-as-performance,...
...futurists. These “bizarre fascisms,” as the essay refers to them, have emerged online, in an odd collusion of far-right bloggers, men’s rights advocates, former Occupy Wall Street figureheads Micah White...