Tag: social media

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How It Feels

Riddhi Dastidar

June 22, 2021

A mutual aid movement emerges to fight the pandemic in India.

What Does a Fact Look Like?

Adrian Nathan West

June 16, 2021

We may be our own deceivers

Going Medieval on Your Gram

Esmé Hogeveen

February 02, 2021

Blackletter fonts find new life on politicized social media.

#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