Social Media, Twitter “The value of sweating the small stuff, it turns out, depends quite a lot on how much power you have to affect the big stuff” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 March 2018 It would be easy to assume, surveying the national scene, that pettiness is universally...
Business, Entertainment, Internet, Social Media “Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2018 The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define,...
Internet, Society “While modernity promised Jews and other minorities that they could move from the margins to the center, it’s the reverse that may have actually occurred” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 October 2017 While modernity promised Jews and other minorities that they could move from the margins...
Internet, Social Media, Technology Considering vertical vs horizontal perspectives Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 September 2017 Before 1930, moving picture aspect ratios were all over the place. But mass distribution...
Internet “…the platforms most flamboyantly dedicated to a borrowed idea of free speech and assembly are the same ones that have struggled most intensely with groups of users who seek to organize and disrupt their platforms” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 September 2017 It is worth noting that the platforms most flamboyantly dedicated to a borrowed idea...
Facebook, Social Media, Twitter “Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 September 2017 Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms: as...
Internet “Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 July 2017 These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to...
Internet, Jewish Community “Online Jewish communities…provide…types of symbols and language…that help reinforce communal identity and unity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 July 2017 Anderson explains the use of language and symbols that help reinforce communal identity and...
Anti-Semitism, Social Media “I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has been an increase in the permissibility of the expressions of anti-Semitism and its amplification by the tools of social media” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2017 I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has...
Internet “Internet trolls work by exploiting the gap between the virtual and the real” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 April 2017 Internet trolls work by exploiting the gap between the virtual and the real. They...