Internet – Excerpted

America, Politics in America

“Spreading conspiracy theories once had a price — printing or even mimeographing a tract costs money — but now…, anyone can post a madcap theory or a doctored photograph virtually for free”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 April 2019

Democracies depend on buy-in; citizens need to believe in certain basics, starting with the...

Internet

“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”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 April 2018

In the coming years, as most of America got online, some variation on the...

Internet

“Paradoxically, framing the internet as a text to be read, not a life to be led, tends to break, without effort, its spell”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 March 2018

Looking at a screen is not living. It’s a concentrated decoding operation that requires...

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

“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...

Politics in America

“Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space between actions and consequences”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 May 2017

Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space...

Haredim/Haredi-ism, Internet, Lubavicher Hasidim, Websites

“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”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 February 2017

Like Chabad, Aish provides links to information about their schools and drop-in classes. The...

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