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Bird’s Eye: Surveillance Culture Comes for Nannies
Unlike suspicion and mistrust, trust is not easily built. Once built, it may experience ruptures and need frequent repairs.
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Need an Abortion? There’s an App for That
Now there’s an even more intimate way to access abortion information that can be truthful and reliable or wildly misleading—an app on your smartphone.
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Sticky Fingers: What Have We Learned from a Decade of Sexting?
Regardless of the progression of sexting as a practice, the way women are exploited online has yet to change.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Leftist YouTube
Years before the rise of so-called LeftTube, men on the site were endlessly abusing, harassing, and threatening women of color.
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Drop the Fry: Judging Elizabeth Holmes’s Voice Comes down to Bias
Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google Assistant have one thing in common: They all have female-identified voices and names.
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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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The Future is Fembot: Can We Change the Direction of Gendered AI?
Artificial intelligence has become an extension of women’s ongoing struggle for well-rounded respect in modern society.
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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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Digitizing the Dead is Capitalism’s Next Ghoulish Move
When celebrities, especially musicians, die, fans rightfully grieve for them, but what happens when mourning marries capitalism?
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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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