Life Without the Tech Giants
By Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple collectively make products that we love, products that we hate (but can’t stop using), and products that dictate how we […]
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Tweets as Criminal Assault
By Elizabeth E. Joh New Scientist Social media raises tricky questions that judges are beginning to try to answer. It has been found possible to violate a restraining order by […]
War Goes Viral
By Emerson T. Brooking & Peter W. Singer The Atlantic Like most everything today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a […]
The Secret Rules of the Internet
By Catherine Buni & Soraya Chemaly The Verge Today, YouTube’s billion-plus users upload 400 hours of video every minute. Every hour, Instagram users generate 146 million “likes” and Twitter users send […]
ISIS and the Social Media War
By Brendan I. Koerner Wired The Islamic State recognized the power of digital media early on, when its brutish progenitor, Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, discovered the utility of uploading grainy […]
Nothing Snowballs Online Like Fear
By Adrienne Berard Nautilus Fear-induced stress is at the root of mass hysteria. When we hear or read about a threat—that vaccines cause autism, that immigration begets terrorism, or that […]
We are Hopelessly Hooked on our Smartphones
By Jacob Weisberg The New York Review of Books “As smoking gives us something to do with our hands when we aren’t using them, Timegives us something to do with […]
