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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Social Media: Keeping Service Personnel Connected, One Deployment at a Time | Julia Hall
Lest I should not be able to write again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye. I...
Removed | Eric Pickersgill
Removed avails performance, portraiture, and photography to question the physical utility of personal devices and the ways they influence society, relationships, and the body....
“Mosaic” & “Nation Time” | Christine Lucy Latimer
Christine Lucy Latimer’s videos explore the movement between film and video, navigating the disparate quality and temporality of the two mediums. In Mosaic she uses footage of...
What Did You Mean By That? | James Galloway
This is a paper about my efforts to continue being honest, both within myself and my professional work as a journalist, under the watchful...