Tag: social media

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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.

No News Is Good News

Jacob Silverman

September 06, 2018

The relationship between Facebook and news publishers is a bizarre charade, peopled by unreliable characters, dotted with contradictions, suffused with dependency and resentment. Over ten long years, Facebook kneecapped the newspaper industry by devouring its main revenue ...

The Zuckerberg Follies

Dave Denison

June 04, 2018

Siva Vaidhyanathan writes the chapters-and-verse account of what's wrong with Facebook.

Kanye Unbound

Niela Orr

April 26, 2018

Mr. West: At what cost does the MAGA hat come?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 23, 2018

Let's play everyone's favorite game: Multimillionaire Quizzes Billionaire On Basic Grocery Prices!

The Miseducation of Lady Bird

Lauren Oyler

November 15, 2017

Greta Gerwig's much-praised "Lady Bird" puts us all in a teenage wasteland.