“Behaving as if our digital data is fleeting can cause serious trouble”

“engineers should take up the case, fight fire with fire, and set their sights on designing anti-racist apps”

“Social Media” didn’t get anything wrong or right. Reporters got things wrong”

“There’s something beautifully noncommittal about Snapchat that flies in the face of what we’ve always known photography to represent”

“I’m tired of contributing to the commodification of my own existence”

“Silent presence sometimes the only possible response to tragedy, but it’s an affordance of embodied presence. Online presence must speak”

“There was no correlation between how much money users paid and how well they were treated”

“No, technology is not “rewiring” young people’s brains”

“Holiday cards were mostly maudlin crap as if that could make any real difference for stopping wars”

“A History of the Digitalization of Consumer Culture”

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