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Victorians: The original futurists. Can Sony stop the leaks? Can social media stop vitriol and still maintain freedom of speech? Should you go to jail for your Facebook profile? What…
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Rewriting Barbie. Unlocking your Internet password. Unlocking your soul. Trolls then and now. Science of your spit. Who runs the web? This is your face on Facebook.
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If you are a white man, your Internet is different than other internets. Hackers are going offline and embracing print. Content moderators keep your Internet from being worse. A comprehensive…
Behind the Caves
Maybe all those rebuffs—the few I gave, the many I received—were just ways of protecting ourselves, those nascent beings so unsure of who we were or what we wanted to become.
Books for Children Top “Great Books” Lists
While the great debate over whether adults should love or hate YA books raged this summer, Facebook users were busy listing their top ten favorite books in a viral status…
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A world of enchanted objects is both alluring and deeply terrifying. And now, a little about how Silicon Valley treats the LGBT community. It’s every bibliophile’s wet dream, but is…
Party of One
Social media is a cruel machine, propelled by our desire to keep up appearances and affirmed by a strange, voyeuristic capital of likes and favorites. While Facebook can at times…
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The future of the Internet should scare you. Death isn’t an end on Facebook. Really awesome revolution of information. Teeny tiny profit margin. Don’t click away! Don’t check Twitter. This…
Face-Off: Facebook vs. Reality
Facebook connects people every damn day. It’s just not how I personally want to connect. I trust that I’ll still wind up with valuable, lasting connections without the aid of online networking, and not waste so much steam in the process.
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How should we handle digital memories? Do we keep them or erase them from our hard drives? Why does Pocahontas endure? Facebook is emotionally manipulating you more than your mother.…
Facebook as Storytelling Medium
From the epic poems of old to postmodernist novels, humans have always told stories. For the Millions, Annie Abrams looks at how Facebook affects our storytelling, applying narrative/literary insights from…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
CBGB’s original walls are out of storage. Perhaps you would like to see them. WWII POW dream journals are a neat thing. Facebook is good for language research I guess!…