Culture & Media Brief History of a Twitter Spat or How Not to Argue Online Posted on August 20, 20189 commentsbyIona Italia Twitter has proven an exceptionally useful platform for me. Through my activity there, I have made new real life friends and interacted with people from all walks of life and… View Post
View Post 8 min Politics Elon Musk, Celebrity, and the Information Age Posted on June 10, 2018June 10, 20182 commentsbyGenevieve Weynerowski Elon Musk was pissed off. The capo di tutti capi of this era’s visionary disrupters recently tossed his super high-end gauntlet down at the feet of the media. Musk was tweeting… View Post
View Post 18 min Science & Tech Why Good People Turn Bad Online Posted on May 25, 2018June 1, 20182 commentsbyGaia Vince Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies. On the evening of 17 February 2018, Professor Mary Beard posted on… View Post
View Post 3 min Science & Tech Suicide in the Time of Technology Posted on February 22, 2018No commentsbyJaspreet Gill Achilles’ death left a vacancy in the Greek ranks. Two contenders vied not only for the title of the greatest warrior but also to be the rightful heir to his… View Post
View Post 2 min From Under Growing Up Online Posted on February 16, 2018February 17, 2018No commentsbyMalhar Mali In my first few weeks of high school in Australia, I remember a classmate messaging me something inflammatory on MSN Messenger (the equivalent of AOL for Americans). Though I don’t… View Post
View Post 2 min From Under The Bowels of Twitter Posted on February 5, 2018February 4, 2018One commentbyMalhar Mali A friend messaged me out of concern recently. “I think you have to be really careful,” he said, referencing this exploratory piece on the roots of genocide by Bradley Campbell,… View Post
View Post 4 min Review So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Posted on October 12, 2017April 17, 20185 commentsbyMalhar Mali I know a man who deleted his Twitter account out of fear after he read So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. Curious about the book’s contents and what could have prompted such… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Trump’s Failure to Communicate Posted on August 15, 2017September 8, 2017One commentbyChris Rampolla President Trump’s refusal to immediately disavow white nationalists and white supremacists — an ever-growing (or emerging) subset of the alt-right base — is telling. And they’ve noticed. After Trump’s comments… View Post