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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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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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Digital Crackdowns on the Sex Trade Can Put Sex Workers at Risk
Raiding sex worker websites may look good for law enforcement—but it can push sex workers further underground.
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The Real Truth About YouTube’s Obsessive Purity Subculture
There’s something sickly comforting about believing that staying pure will give you power, about the idea that everything will be okay if you follow the rules.
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Black Retribution in Tech: The Audacity to Imagine
“I have cultivated a special relationship with revenge—one that is built on the idea that I and other Black people deserve acknowledgment as creative individuals and equitable access to tools that can nurture our gifts.”
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Popaganda: Fembots
From Metropolis to Westworld, female robots have always played out complicated power dynamics onscreen. While the term “fembots” conjurs up the image of killer mechanical sex-kittens from Austin Powers, cinematic stories about female robots often deal with much... Read more »
Not All Russians: The Ethics of Internet Bots
Is the #botally community following ethics that lessen harm?
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