...with us and turns them into an entertainment product meant to make Facebook money. Facebook's excuse for filtering our feed is that users can't handle the unfiltered flow of all...
...banalities because they don’t know yet that people won’t. Your Twitter feed isn’t complete until you follow a teen, and you aren’t entertaining until you start acting like one....
...Altered photograph of Murray Kempton, via On a recent Sunday, I opened up my Twitter feed to find Sherry Turkle getting pummeled for an opinion piece in the...
...including a bar in Australia that kept a 24-hour feed for its customers. However, the most astonishing discovery was a Facebook group that gathered some of the volunteering citizens that...
...he’s hearing from a child. Schools don’t teach these kind of skills. His command of knowledge was colored by a sense of immediate responsibility, not just for himself but for...
...the absence of urgent emotion. The title of this book suggests that urgent emotion is at its center—that the novel has something to teach us about what it’s like to...
...Lorde, as I keep learning, is deeply pedagogical, deeply interested in how we learn from experience, and, especially, how doing and feeling teach us to know. “Uses of the Erotic”...
...teach them (because we were taught) to behave as if visual surveillance is inescapable. We do so regardless of the degree to which actual watchers actually see and the extent...
...their jobs, but Teach for America is expanding "Yik Yak felt different. It wasn’t just a new tool for the school’s bullies; it was also an equalizer." Prison labor in...
...and the Afropolitan Debate Jacob Remes: Photographing a family torn apart by the tsunami Has Japan Learned Anything from the 2011 Disaster? Fukushima evacuees in their own words, five years...
...to the tune of "Tradition": Geek culture and nail art collide, prompting Cassie to look at one connection between the two worlds: obsession. Lush love: Can I get fangirl for...
...by Japan Skipping a meal daily boosts your chances of avoiding cancer and chronic diseases, one researcher suggests The Trump administration's war on national dietary guidelines And proposed changes to...
...Jacob Remes: Context for Japan's snap election today "Racism, in this construct, is the result of ignorance rather than malice or structural inequalities." The inside/outside game in New...
...disturb us more, either because there would have been a greater number of total casualties in the invasion of Japan, or because the victims would have been of a different...
...Old Delhi The history and social impact of refrigeration ReclaimUC: Some rules for teachers How one of America's last free colleges screwed its students and betrayed its legacy Myths about...
...You” The purity of drones Google Writes Poetry on Subjects that People are Truly Interested In Smoke Screen and Smoke Signals Mapping Drone Strikes in Pakistan ReclaimUC Follow the money,...