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In America's Panopticon

Sarah Igo’s "The Known Citizen" examines the linked histories of privacy and surveillance in the United States.

by Katie Fitzpatrick via The Nation on December 6, 2018

Why is Everyone Suddenly Saying 'Y'all'?

Or better put, why is it something so many outside of the South have recently adopted?

by Bill Black via MEL on November 12, 2018

World War I Relived Day by Day

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.

by Patrick Chovanec via New York Review of Books on November 8, 2018

Instagram's Aids Memorial: ‘History Does Not Record Itself’

The Instagram feed where friends and family post tributes to loved ones who died of Aids-related illnesses has become an extraordinary compendium of lost lives.

by Kate Kellaway via The Guardian on November 4, 2018

The Archivists of Extinction

Architectural history in an era of capitalist ruin.

by Kate Wagner via The Baffler on October 19, 2018

Security camera

Known Unknowns

The elusive meaning of privacy in America.

by Katrina Forrester via Harper’s on September 1, 2018

Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days in Palo Alto

Mark Zuckerberg and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today.

by Adam Fisher via Wired on July 10, 2018

The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets

Tim Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.

by Katrina Brooker via Vanity Fair on July 1, 2018

How Everything On The Internet Became Clickbait

The “Laurel or Yanny?” phenomenon was the logical endpoint of 300 years of American media.

by Kevin Munger via The Outline on May 27, 2018

The Liberal Delusion of #ResistanceGenealogy

The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 15, 2018

Man reading a newspaper and smoking a cigarette in a mid-twentieth century kitchen.

Why the “Golden Age” of Newspapers Was the Exception, Not the Rule

"American journalism is younger than American baseball."

by John Maxwell Hamilton, Heidi Tworek via Nieman Lab on May 2, 2018

It Didn’t Start with Facebook: Surveillance and the Commercial Media

The era of audience exploitation began in earnest thanks in large part to the experiments of Dr. Frank Stanton in the 1930s.

by Michael J. Socolow via We're History on May 1, 2018

The Attention Economy of the American Revolution

How Twitter bots help us understand the founding era.

by Jordan E. Taylor via The Junto on April 30, 2018

The Dot-Coms Were Better Than Facebook

Twenty years ago, another high-profile tech executive testified before Congress. It was a more innocent time.

by Ian Bogost via The Atlantic on April 13, 2018

The Tools of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley’s sixty-year love affair with the word “tool.”

by Moira Weigel via The New Yorker on April 11, 2018

KKK parade

How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie

A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.

by Jennifer Mendelsohn, Peter A. Shulman via Made By History on March 15, 2018

Women's march in front of the U.S. Capitol.

How Second-Wave Feminism Inexplicably Became a Villain in the #MeToo Debate

Talking sexism, ageism, and progress with Katha Pollitt.

by Katha Pollitt, Isaac Chotiner via Slate on January 24, 2018

America @ Worship

How social media is – and isn't – changing American religion.

by Sara Georgini on October 29, 2017

Why did James Comey Name His Secret Twitter Account ‘Reinhold Niebuhr’?

Niebuhr is a theological hero to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

by Michelle Boorstein via Washington Post on October 24, 2017

One Person's History of Twitter, From Beginning to End

Twitter, valuing expansion over principles, achieved its goal of changing the world. But not in the way that it planned.

by Mike Monteiro via Medium on October 15, 2017

Commercial Surveillance State

Blame the marketers.

by Matthew Crain, Anthony Nadler via n+1 on September 27, 2017

President John F. Kennedy, his wife, Jackie, and their son John Jr. on his Christening day, Dec. 8, 1960.

A Thread for Auld Lang Syne

On Twitter's new 280-character limit.

by Yoni Appelbaum via Twitter on September 26, 2017

Jump-Rope Songs Were Once a Cornerstone of American Folklore. Now It’s Memes.

The Library of Congress is turning to the internet for a new generation of shared culture.

by Jacob Brogan via Slate on September 4, 2017

Dismantled But Not Destroyed

One alternative to tearing down Confederate monuments: creatively repurposing them.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 18, 2017

Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

Police brutality has been a hot topic in contemporary society, but when did this all really start and where did dogs get involved?

by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on July 31, 2017

Trump Hasn’t Killed Comedy. He’s Killed Our Stupid Idea of Comedy.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.

by Andrew Kahn via Slate on July 19, 2017

How Nixon Would Have Tweeted Watergate

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.

by Justin Sherin via Politico Magazine on June 24, 2017

Nixon campaign button with the slogan "Now more than ever."

Now Less Than Never

A smooth forehead suggests a hard heart.

via n+1 on April 5, 2017

Why Federal Employees Can Thank FDR for Some Restrictions on Their Tweets

The Hatch Act was crafted in response to New Deal-era political maneuvering.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on April 3, 2017

A Twitter Tribute to Holocaust Victims

A conversation with the creator of a new social-media project that commemorates refugees the United States turned away in 1939.

by Russel Neiss, Candice Norwood via The Atlantic on January 27, 2017

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