“In social media, alienation appears as its opposite”

“A LinkedIn Body is made of the ways in which you’ve made money”

“it’s no surprise to see an app tracking your ability to disconnect”

“It’s no accident that both Manning and Snowden are former soldiers who served in Iraq”

“Should the government know less than Google?”

“7. Realize, w/ horror, that your boyfriend, unbeknownst to you, has had unprecedented access to all of your emails”

““Oh, don’t be such a digital dualist, Raymond,” Isobel quipped”

“In his egregious professional misstep, he inadvertently handed Fat Activists a microphone and a spotlight”

“Every wave of positivism eventually comes undone, when its central contradiction emerges”

“the digital beatdown he’d help deliver over Steubenville came back to haunt him”

“replacing cops and soldiers with PRISM and predator drones: Massively Open Online Police State (MOOPS)“

“all of us slowly come to accept a model of technology use that subtly erases the concept of ownership”

“What Pussy Riot give us is a new, viral-ready model for the digital age– proof that, like feminism & punk rock, the protest song is alive”

“Steve Jobs Time Capsule. Buried at a conference in Aspen in 1983, but remains lost”

“anti-government forces are deliberately buying up basics like toilet paper to destabilise the country”

“To invoke the boundless informant is to call attention to the way powerful actors nonconsensually extract data from populations through the design of everyday life”

“that’s the funny thing about how data is used by our current government. It’s used to create suspicion, not to confirm innocence”

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