Tag: social media

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#Wrapped and Sold

Liz Pelly

December 03, 2020

‘Tis the season for social media feeds peppered with free advertising for Spotify

Regulators! Stand Back

Lizzie O’Shea

November 12, 2020

Under a Biden administration, Big Tech is set for a field day

Ghost Towns of Instagram

Angella d’Avignon

August 28, 2019

Inside a new California Gold Rush

We’re Turning Stranger

Kate Wagner

August 20, 2019

How Omegle and Chatroulette demonstrate the internet at both its most poetic and insipid.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

August 16, 2019

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Crushing Debt

Hashtag Propaganda

Erica X Eisen

July 30, 2019

Government organizations have harnessed social media to project their power into the furthest reaches of cyberspace.

Plant Parenthood

Kate Wagner

July 09, 2019

Houseplant culture is bad for houseplants.

Zuck’s New Scam

Lizzie O’Shea

May 21, 2019

Facebook's new vision of privacy doesn’t hold any power because it does not challenge the definitive power framework for users of social media.

Thing Untweetable

Josie Thaddeus-Johns

April 23, 2019

Jenny Holzer in the social media age

Quiet Down

Madeleine Crum

February 21, 2019

Two new books ask: When is living quietly an act of protest?

Social Cyborgs

Benjamin Schneider

January 31, 2019

Participating in the network from across the uncanny valley, these artists seek to critique Instagram from the inside.

Waste Not, Want Not

Madeleine Wattenbarger

December 19, 2018

If the Zero Waste movement wants to move beyond green environmentalism, it has to get off Instagram and into the world.