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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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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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