Jessica Valenti discusses her memoir, Sex Object, how the experiences she touches on in her book shaped her, and how she discovered herself outside of those experiences.
Almost as notable as an artist’s work nowadays are the comments and speculative personas that arise around them on the Internet. Jonathan Safran Foer is something of a perfect storm,…
We don’t like being told “no.” At least not according to preliminary votes from Oxford Dictionaries’ attempt to collect data on English speakers’ least favorite words in late August. Unfortunately, while…
Trolls have come a long way since their days guarding bridges. Over at Electric Literature, Andrew Ervin compares today’s Internet vermin to their bestial forbears.
Reporting on Russian Internet trolls for the New York Times Magazine, Adrian Chen uncovers fake art exhibitions, follows “I Am Ass” on Twitter, and talks with a neo-Nazi. He’s also followed.
(n.); noxious exhalations from putrid organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere; a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere “If the Internet is a bridge to the…
The Apple watch says you aren’t good enough. The tension between sex and science. Are rage clicks a thing of the past? What the Internet needs is a vigilante. Schools…
How one troll came to repent for his sins. Speaking of trolls, they probably all have bad hearts. There is real symbiosis between science and fiction. There is also symbiosis between…
Science knows exactly how you feel right now. How the good enough get better. Intimacy and vulnerability on the Internet. Why women don’t comment online. Internet philistines are why we…