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📱| Verifiably Confusing: Status Anxiety, Conferred Legitimacy, and Verification's Pay-to-Play Pivot

I'll admit it - I coveted the blue check I never got. But that’s changed.

Apr 27 •

📱The Vibe Shift That Was Foretold Came, & Twitter Did Not Survive It

Social Media Reconsidered, Redux

Dec 26, 2022 •

📱Twitter Enters Its Musk Era.

And plenty of people may decide to exit.

Oct 28, 2022 •

📱#exvangelical approaches 1B impressions

I opened TikTok today, and the current impressions for the #exvangelical hashtag stand at 985M views. It is on track to surpass 1 billion impressions in…

Aug 31, 2022 •

📱REAL LIFE | "Influencer Creep"

Real Life has become one of my favorite sites to read thoughtful pieces about how technologies affect us. In a recently published article, Sophie Bishop…

Jun 15, 2022 •

Twitter & The Counterpublic Sphere

As far as social networking sites that most people in my direct orbit don’t even use go, Twitter has played an outsized role in my life. In fact, it’s…

Apr 26, 2022 •

📱 "The reality is: human beings, unfortunately, are giant babies in the virtual world"

A games developer's insight into human behavior online

Mar 23, 2022 •

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