Can't Access Your Favorite Websites? Blame SOPA/PIPA
Have you heard about the law proposed to regulate the Internet? We're against it.
View ArticleWhy are we so mean on Facebook?
Why do seemingly innocuous posts quickly get ugly, and why are people so quick to fan the flames?
View ArticleWhat am I cheering for when Anonymous takes on Westboro Baptist Church?
What do I want more, to see Westboro humiliated and receiving their (richly deserved) comeuppance? Or to see them repenting of their hatred and becoming a true church that displays the love and grace...
View ArticleWelcome to the Grid: How Living on the Internet Changes Everything
What if we don’t live in a world of divided realms but rather, a world where the digital and the physical exist together as an 'augmented' reality?
View Article‘Donglegate’ Makes Me Want To Destroy the Internet
There are times when I want to burn the Internet to the ground and throw the ashes onto a trash heap -- and last week was one of those times.
View ArticleQuitting The Internet Won’t Make You A Better Person
The Internet could be seen as a mirror that reflects back to us our best -- and our worst -- qualities in very public and immediate ways.
View ArticleELSEWHERE: The Digital Age’s Growing Inequalities
An increasing number of common, everyday tasks — e.g., paying bills, completing homework, applying for jobs — assume that people have Internet access. Which, in this age, is not unreasonable. But what...
View ArticleELSEWHERE: How Should We Write When Words Are Cheap?
Should writers be ‘compensated’ for their words? How important is your ‘voice’ as an author? What of truth? Do you have to ‘live a story’ to write well? What of some of the more popular modes of...
View ArticleELSEWHERE: Are Online Comments Still Worthwhile?
YouTube and Popular Science recently announced new policies that either add greater restrictions on comments or remove comments altogether. In this social age, it seems like a given that people can...
View ArticleVirtual Choices, Real Effects: The Impact of Our Hyperlink Trail
"A world of information at our fingertips seems to offer endless alternatives, an illusion ultimately rendered impossible by the obstinate strictures and constraints of reality."
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