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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
Internet •
Science Fiction •
Manual Competence •
Social Media •
Data Science •
Biotechnology •
History of Technology •
All
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Review | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Geoff Shullenberger

We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now

How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom

Geoff Shullenberger

Symposium | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

The Inescapable Town Square
Preserving Real-Life Childhood
How Not to Regulate Social Media
The Four Facebooks
Do You Know Who Your ‘Friends’ Are?
The Distance Between Us
The Emergent Order of Twitter
Imagine All the People
Making Friends of Trolls
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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Ian Marcus Corbin

Analog Anchors for the Online Adrift

How Moleskine sells durability to ephemeral selves

Ian Marcus Corbin

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Caitrin Keiper

Making Friends of Trolls

On finding familiar faces behind the black mirror

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Caitrin Keiper

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • James Poulos

Imagine All the People

How the fantasies of the TV era created the disaster of social media

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

James Poulos

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Andy Smarick

The Emergent Order of Twitter

Why the platform should be fixed from the bottom up, not the top down

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Andy Smarick

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Micah Meadowcroft

The Distance Between Us

Why we act badly when we don’t speak face-to-face

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Micah Meadowcroft

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Ashley May

Do You Know Who Your ‘Friends’ Are?

Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Ashley May

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Nolen Gertz

The Four Facebooks

Misinformation, manipulation, dependency, distraction

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Nolen Gertz

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Shoshana Weissmann

How Not to Regulate Social Media

Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Shoshana Weissmann

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