The rise of a “shadow gospel” reveals how deeply the language of demons and deliverance has shaped American politics.
Whitney Phillips & Mark Brockway | Apr 28
Behind every great console is a great legal fight.
Julien Mailland | Apr 15
What seemed at first like a simple game about waiting turned into a study in design focused on time, endurance, and audience experience.
Pippin Barr | Mar 31
Libertarian fantasies thrive on ecological collapse, profiting from the very destruction they helped to accelerate.
Jonas Staal | Jan 16
Selections from "Output," an anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT.
Nick Montfort | Dec 16, 2024
Left unchecked, the technique, which weaponizes emotional data for political gain, could erode the foundations of a fair and informed society.
Aram Sinnreich & Jesse Gilbert | Jun 13, 2024
Meryl Alper, ethnographer and author of “Kids Across the Spectrums,” explores the role of media and technology in the everyday lives of children on the autism spectrum.
The Editors | Jan 9, 2024
The next time you catch yourself doomscrolling, take it as an invitation to own your own horror.
Erik Davis | Oct 1, 2023
A little-known story of Marjorie Van de Water, who, in her coverage of psychology and psychiatry, popularized a new journalistic beat among U.S. news reporters.
Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette | Aug 28, 2023
On whiling away time before we have to be ourselves online again.
Tung-Hui Hu | Dec 1, 2022
