This week, our editors recommend longreads by Kelsey Vlamis, Brian Feldman, Skip Hollandsworth, Tessa Somberg, and Alison Espach.
internet culture
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The Secret History Of The Internet’s Funniest Buzzer-Beater
“[E]very so often, if you dig into a piece of internet ephemera, the context—the who, what, when, where, and why—have the potential to dramatically enhance your understanding of the freak accident that you just witnessed.”
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Very Online
CJR fellow Karen Maniraho talks with five very online journalists — Ryan Broderick, Jason Parham, Taylor Lorenz, Rebecca Jennings, and Rusty Foster — about what it’s like to cover tech and internet culture today, how they navigate through viral moments and algorithms, and how they look for meaning in a constantly noise-polluted, chaotic space. Because […]
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What’s The Vibe? A Reading List
Amorphous and intangible, a vibe is hard to describe. Let these five longreads sharpen your focus.
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On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
“Never before in history have so many people been under the gaze of so many strangers.”
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The Day the Good Internet Died
“Did a Good Internet ever even exist, or am I just nostalgic for my youth?”
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I
“We make spaces out of spaces where we were not intended to be. That’s what we do.” This is the first installment in a three-part oral history series on Black Twitter.
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Patricia Lockwood Is a Good Reason to Never Log Off
“I mean, the internet is inside us. It’s no longer an externality. We can’t get away from that. You can do some Alias thing where you rip the chip out and you throw it in the river, but it’s too late, man. We’re not getting offline.” Gabriella Paiella interviews Patricia Lockwood.
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Quarantine Brain: How ‘the Internet Became More Internet’ in 2020
Nothing made sense in 2020 — unless you were on the internet.
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Quarantine Brain
“Nothing made sense this year — unless you were on the internet.”