Tag: Instagram

Are Instagrammers and selfie culture destroying the outdoors? At Outside, Lisa Chase sets off to find out.

“With the right hashtag, anyone can view thousands of potential destinations — and choose which to visit based on aesthetics alone.”

With physical distancing the order of the day as COVID-19 spreads, cultural locales — sites for communal experiences, like museums and theaters — are emptying out. What are we sharing if we’re not sharing these spaces? And were we really sharing them to begin with?

What the people we envy online can tell us about ourselves.

When an interior-design startup collapses, no filter can hide the ugly truth.

We watch the (women) influencers watching the (heavily female) influencing industry, but the men aren’t entirely in the dark.

Are you really achieving representation for your child with special needs if you’re only sharing the upbeat, attractive photos on social media?

Maybe it’s time for an internet break… after you read this.

Health care and medical sponsored content from influencers is growing on Instagram. But is it ethical?

At Curbed, Alexandra Marvar explores homeownership in the age of the Instagram travel influencer.

In the Parvati Valley, the road to enlightenment is paved with danger.

Kids are a growing part of Instagram’s influencer marketing industry. At Fast Company, Katharine Schwab reports on the rising stars of the platform — and the parents managing their “careers” behind the scenes.

Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.

A new breed of charlatan posts images of their fake opulent lifestyles on Instagram to lure followers into investing in sketchy financial products.

In the aftermath of rape, Alison Kinney discovers that a new lover who helps you to heal can just as easily betray you.

Professor Negar Mottahedeh gets some insight into her former homeland after an Iranian hacker steals her Instagram identity.

The photo sharing service has been creating tools and algorithms to let its users close comments and ban offensive words.

Sleek-kitschy idiosyncrasy is all the rage.

The New York Times styles Manning for her first profile—but she’s already in charge of her own image.

At Serious Eats, Kat Kinsman analyzes America’s obsession with culinary appearances and makes the case for learning to measure food by other, non-visual standards.

“Mary Mazur, 61, shrank into the blankets, muttering into the leaves, whispering to her only friend.” An Instagram essay by Jeff Sharlet.

“I want to introduce white America to people who they might never have met, and I want them to fall in love too.”

Excerpts from an Instagram essay, by Jeff Sharlet. See part one. * * *

Jeff Sharlet | Longreads | September 2014 | 12 minutes (2,802 words) 1. Snapshots Dunkin Donuts, West Lebanon, New Hampshire The night shift, for me, is a luxury, the freedom to indulge my insomnia by writing at a Dunkin Donuts, one of the only places up here open at midnight. But lately my insomnia doesn’t […]

Affiliate marketing is almost as old as the Internet; it developed back in 1994 thanks to pornography sites, and it was implemented by Jeff Bezos at Amazon shortly afterward. Here’s how it works: Say you search for flights on Priceline. The hyperlinked airfare results aren’t just any old links. They’re affiliate links. The act of […]

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