“Anxieties about the internet began to feel more rote and less plausible, in no small part because the internet had disappeared as a distinct place”
In the coming years, as most of America got online, some variation on the...
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“As the internet of 2017 has changed, so has the internet user”
As the internet of 2017 has changed, so has the internet user. We are...
“Paradoxically, framing the internet as a text to be read, not a life to be led, tends to break, without effort, its spell”
Looking at a screen is not living. It’s a concentrated decoding operation that requires...
“Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces”
The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define,...
“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”
While modernity promised Jews and other minorities that they could move from the margins...
“Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything”
These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to...
“Online Jewish communities…provide…types of symbols and language…that help reinforce communal identity and unity”
Anderson explains the use of language and symbols that help reinforce communal identity and...
“Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space between actions and consequences”
Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space...
“There is no substantial evidence to see if Aish’s movement is more effective than Chabad’s, but the more modern approach to the material does continue to set the difference in tone in these two online orthodox movements”
Like Chabad, Aish provides links to information about their schools and drop-in classes. The...
“Now we all know obnoxious beer snobs (to be differentiated from nerds or geeks)…”
Now we all know obnoxious beer snobs (to be differentiated from nerds or geeks),...