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Frank Correa | Q + A

Frank Correa is an artist based in Seattle who shoots and manipulates digital images. Coming to Washington by way of Peru, Frank reworks his photographs...

Reviews

Let’s Play: The Shining | Norberto Gomez, Jr.

The world of popular gaming mirrors the development of Hollywood action films: grandiose attempts at virtuality, holograms, and 3-D fantasies, with non-stop violence,...

Columns Damian Hondares

My kind of social media

I’m antisocial. Sure, when I’m off at school it’s different. I’m in “people mode” so often that sometimes I forget just how much of...

Andrew Jones Columns

Free* Internet

I read an interesting opinion piece on Wired earlier today regarding Facebook’s “Internet.org,” an ambitious program aimed at connecting millions of off-the-grid individuals to...

Columns Daniel Fandino

Inventing a Modern Holiday: May the 4th Be With You

May 4th was Star Wars Day, a day of commemoration for one of the most popular science fiction franchises in the world. How and...

Columns

Anti-Social Media: The Failure of Government Counter-Radicalization Programs | Jane Ninivaggi

In my previous article, Twitter Terrorism: A Sophisticated Weapon in the War on Terror, I examined how social media has been exploited by extremist...

Columns Michael Leonberger

Mileygram

My first girlfriend was a girl named Sara. We’d sit in the preschool hallways, hold hands, and sing “Nightmare Before Christmas” songs to each...

Columns Damian Hondares

The Internet’s Identity Theft

Whenever I feel like annoying my girlfriend, I bombard her with cryptic quotes. My personal favorite comes from the one and only Bob Dylan,...

Columns

Andrew Lyman (and finding a queer futurity in GIFs) | Kenta Murakami

I first saw Andrew Lyman’s photographs through the Facebook profiles of friends; art-school types who would congregate in Brooklyn for the summers, their profile...