“JSTOR is a rent extraction mechanism that perpetuates fundamental inequalities”

“a ceremonial flyover of three combat drones”

“what is Elsevier going to do with Mendeley that warrants uninstalling it from you computer?”

“Nineteenth century viral culture is quite like today’s Internet culture”

“Seeing this as only a story about digital technologies & their risks is to overlook how cultural communication is”

“That was before Apple washed Siri’s mouth out with soap and curbed many of its talents”

“23 women have joined a class-action lawsuit against the “revenge porn” website”

“there is something disturbingly misogynistic about online bullying“

“think self-tracking implies opposite; we’ll invent emotions post hoc to account for what machines report and invent matching ways to feel”

“Drones are already literary, and they might only be dealt with on a literary basis”

“The digital environment is not a parallel or purely virtual world”

“Millennials, the ascendant economic force in America, have been culturally programmed to borrow, rent and share”

“Even if this is a faked baby with a faked Google street view, it’s still real”

“she perfectly embodies the perception of how tweens perceive ‘social media fame’ as ‘fame’”

“fiction is a fantastically useful arena to do social theory, yet it’s one that most social scientists roundly ignore”

“the picture is as much about taking an iPhone photo as it is about representing the damaged airliner”

One-Purpose Tumblrs

hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com

tweetpairing.tumblr.com

wtfevolution.tumblr.com

actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com

Oh, and this: vinepeek.com

Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com].