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From Memes to Equal Pay: How Lesbian Meme Culture Produced A New Dedicated Soccer Fandom
With their World Cup win, the United States women’s national soccer team has been extensively memed, leading to newly obsessed queer fans—and more supporters in their fight for pay equity.
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Consumer Retorts: Are Anti-Hauls the Antidote to YouTube’s Cult of Consumerism?
Swapping “whatever you are will never be enough” for “whatever you have will never be enough” is a lateral move at best.
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Ghosts in the Machine: Have We Entrusted Too Much to the Internet?
We take for granted that the internet will always remember what we might otherwise forget.
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Here For a Black Planet: Solange’s New Album Sparks Nostalgia for a Pioneering Social-Media Platform
Solange’s partnership with BlackPlanet feels like its own homecoming.
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From Information Superhighway to Digital Runway: The Complicated Legacy of Fashion Blogging
In its own way, fashion and beauty blogging is as aspirational as traditional fashion media.
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Unzuck Your Life: A Post-Facebook Vision for Online Organizing
The rent on Facebook is just too damn high.
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The Weird and Wild World of Reddit Relationships
It’s not surprising that people turn to the internet for relationship advice.
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Inside Job: Can We Achieve Social Justice on a Platform Built to Exploit?
The business models that have made Facebook such an effective community-building tool are fundamentally at odds with the ethics of many of the communities it helps build.
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Online Challenges Hit a Sour Note for Queer and Trans Communities
I was overwhelmed with the memory of my old image.
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Reclaiming Hysteria: Disability Advocates Have Embraced YouTube—But the Feeling Isn’t Mutual
Demonetization and algorithm bias can dramatically affect the income that disabled creators stand to make.
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