Social Media
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Weekly Geekery
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. Welcoming our robot overlords. You aren’t the only one concerned…
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Weekly Geekery
Albert Einstein: When science and celebrity, story and physics collide. Social media isn’t taking over book time, social media is taking over TV time, and that’s okay. The science of capturing death in plaster. Google writes poetry to its computer. Is…
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In Defense of Twitter Poetry
Twitter is like a digital notebook for collecting observations, Rhys Nixon describes over at Entropy, making it an ideal platform for poetry and expression. Twitter also combines humor and absurdism, two elements often overlooked in more conventional literature. But perhaps…
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Author Connections
Bookish social media site Goodreads has just launched a brand new feature—starting now, you can connect and ask questions of your favorite authors as well as fellow readers. Learn more and join the conversation here.
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Weekly Geekery
Whisper is an app that lets users make anonymous confessions. It’s brilliant and seems to be here to stay. Or stay as long as these things do. Pretty soon, writing on a laptop will be just another bit of nostalgia.…
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The Private Words of Newton
Do we think that the things a person says in public or the things a person writes in private say more about them? I think that’s an interesting question, especially for our moment of Twitter and Facebook. We tend to…
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My 24 Hours on Instagram
I joined Instagram on a Tuesday, the night of a weekly social club in the Berkshires where members get together to share dishes that correspond to that week’s theme.
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Twitter: The Next Great American Novel
Fans of the hit television show “The Office” will surely know that former “Office” star BJ Novak has come out with a collection of stories entitled One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories. Find out on Mashable why Novak thinks social media may…
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You Are Invisible
Writing in the New Yorker about the smartphone app Cloak, Mark O’Connell offers a thoroughly beautiful and poetic commentary on the ontology of visibility: By generating a kind of omnipresence—whereby we are always available, visible, contactable, all of us there all the time—the technologies that…
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Social Media Year, 2080
In the spirit of Orwell, Saunders, and M.T. Anderson, see here for a glimpse at the future of social media: virtual reality dates, sensory augmentation, robots writing on humans in peer-reviewed journals. Sensory augmentations will make possible ever-deeper transports…
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I Know I Should Tweet
Throughout AWP, I heard people groan: “Yeah, I’ll start tweeting soon.” “I know I know: I should tweet.” They seemed resigned to it, and I suppose I did too, but I didn’t know why.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Weightless Nomad
“We live in a moment where images fill our lives in more obvious ways than words. Every day we scroll through Tumblrs, memes and gifs, a parade of images as completely absorbing as it is mind numbing.”