Tag: digital cultures

• The Boring Internet

  May 22, 2026

  The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists. https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet more ›

• ‘Gen Z Language? Y’all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

  March 11, 2026

  Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body o… https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.70024 more ›

• Childhood’s End

  July 8, 2025

  The digital revolution progressed through five stages: the repurposing of war-surplus analog vacuum tube components into the first generation of fully-electronic stored-program computers; the era of large central mainframes; the era of… more ›

• How Digital Art Has Fared since the NFT Boom

  August 22, 2024

  Hannah Nijsten, installation view of “Squares Cubed,” at Outernet, London, 2024. Photo courtesy of Outernet. Earlier this year, Taschen published On NFTs, an essay collection commemorating the 10 years since… more ›

• What social networks can learn from public spaces

  January 16, 2021

  The research began with the observation that in the offline world, healthy communities have traditionally been served by thriving public spaces: town squares, libraries, parks, and so on. Like digital… more ›

• Inside Facebook’s quadruple play: How the company is finally melding its apps

  October 1, 2020

  Stan Chudnovsky doesn’t remember when CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other top Facebook executives began talking about treating the company’s portfolio of services more like, well, a portfolio. With some of… more ›

• How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ – Cory Doctorow

  August 31, 2020

  Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This… more ›

• Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria’s informal settlements

  May 17, 2020

  MAKOKO, Nigeria — On Jan. 21 Shedrach Zunze woke up to the sound of gunshots in his home in Tarkwa Bay, the little corridor of the Lagos Lagoon, on the… more ›

• Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space and define user identities

  September 17, 2019

  New research from Cass Business School has found that battery icons on mobile phones shape how people view time and space, and how battery conservation practices define user identities. https://phys.org/news/2019-09-battery-icons-perceptions-space-user.html more ›

• Why I Printed My Facebook

  August 24, 2019

  In my attic lies a big box of scrapbooks and diaries chronicling my preteen through early college years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, in minute and sometimes cringe-inducing detail.… more ›