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April 12, 2016
Navneet Alang
Do We Still Need Comments?
They're a powerful tool, but very easy to abuse—as the recent controversy over Genius annotations shows.
March 10, 2016
MagazineSuzy Khimm
The Shame Game
The internet has given us a new public square. Now law enforcement is trying to harness its power.
February 17, 2016
MagazineElspeth Reeve
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
That feeling when you hit a million followers, make more money than your mom, push a diet pill scheme, lose your blog, and turn 16.
January 22, 2016
Navneet Alang
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Newsfeed
Or: How refusing to consume everything online can make your life better.
January 15, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Nerd dreams do come true.
January 12, 2016
Sandra González-Bailón
Could Slacktivism Help Making a Murderer’s Steven Avery?
Your Dean Strang obsession might not be so silly after all.
January 7, 2016
Navneet Alang
The Internet Isn’t Obsessed with Jennifer Lawrence. “The Internet” Doesn’t Exist.
December 30, 2015
Laura Marsh
Why are people asking Richard Dawkins, inventor of the word “meme,” how a dog should wear pants?
December 29, 2015
Malcolm Harris
Reading Everything Aaron Swartz Wrote
A new posthumous collection of Swartz's work shows his range as a scholar and intellectual.
December 28, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Jeb Bush has the perfect sense of humor for our time, and he doesn’t even know it.
December 2, 2015
Paul Ford
I Dreamed of a Perfect Database
How we order information can reshape our world.
November 30, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Did you have the correct opinion on the Amy Schumer nude photo?
November 17, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Hillary Clinton's old MySpace page is a monument to internet history.
November 16, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Even ISIS supporters believed this Photoshopped image that made a Sikh Canadian look like a Paris terrorist.
November 6, 2015
MagazineElizabeth Winkler
Is It Possible to Be Happy on Instagram?
Why a teenage Instagram star turned against the platform.
November 4, 2015
Paul Ford
LOL Nothing Matters: A Defense of the Internet’s Absence of Meaning
November 4, 2015
MGMT. design
Clean Clicks vs. Dirty Data
What would it take to build an environmentally sustainable internet?
November 3, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Why I Heart the Twitter Heart
The social network's new icon will enlarge our emotional vocabulary
October 27, 2015
Ken Roth
How Twitter Helps Fight Human Rights Abuse
The director of Human Rights Watch on how social media enables many to spotlight abuse
September 29, 2015
Jeff Nunokawa
Mourning the Loss of an Attention Span
Sven Birkerts's new book laments our diminished attentiveness to art and friendships

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