“The earlier internet was a haven, everyone making it up as they went along.”
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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
“In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.”
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Your Data’s Strange Undersea Voyage
“The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.”
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The Last Days of Social Media
“Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.”
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Girls Will Be Girls: A Reading List on Consumerism in the Internet Age
Are the scores of girl personas on TikTok just a marketing campaign? Let’s do the (girl) math.
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Day 1,509 in the Big Brother House
“Our writer, a lonely tweenager in rural Ireland, took to his computer and found new galaxies of possibilities – on a Big Brother forum.”
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Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
“Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.”
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What US Tech Did to Ireland
“The country is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple.”
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The Many Ways Scientists are Turning Birds into Feathered Field Assistants
“From frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants, researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world.”
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I’d Like to Report a Murder
“Lauren Oyler and Brandon Taylor talk to hannah baer about the dark art of literary takedowns.”
