How Google’s tunnel vision cost us all
The company was so singularly obsessed with beating Facebook at its own game that it missed broader trends that were about to rattle the industry
Social media
Wednesday
Tuesday
The bizarre, normal death of Bianca Devins
If her killer is exceptional, it is in his pathetic keenness to make this a point of pride
Friday
How C.S. Lewis predicted Instagram
On Instagram, like Pornhub, you can sort by fetish
Friday
Twitter is a virus of the mind
If you log off, you lose your influence: An Encounter Ideas essay
Tuesday
The quiet sorrow of the Instagram blogger
Do the small untruths we tell on social media play a role in disrupting our sense of reality?
Tuesday
When did Donald Trump’s tweets become so boring?
It feels like he’s tweeting by numbers
Monday
The agonizing death of Hillary Clinton’s ‘Internet Freedom’ agenda
The openness of the American internet is what makes it so dangerous
Monday
Welcome back Titania McGrath!
She inspires thousands of followers, or dare I say, disciples, with a heady mixture of defiant slam poetry and staunch feminist views
Monday
Meghan Murphy, Twitter and the new trans misogyny
A Canadian feminist journalist is the latest casualty of the transphobia crusade
Friday
The trouble with baby boomers and social media
If Cesar Sayoc did send those bombs, might it have something to do with the online conspiracy wormhole he’s been dwelling in for the last few years?
Monday
Facebook’s privacy failings are no accident
Remember Nudge? It was a 2008 book by Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein, full of bright technocratic ideas for using ‘choice architecture’ to ‘nudge’ the plebs to make the ‘right’ decisions. The Guardian’s reviewer called it ‘never intimidating, always amusing, and elucidating: a jolly economic romp with serious lessons within’. On … Read more
