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Writer and media theorist Bogna Konior connects cosmos and computer by reconsidering our eerily silent Universe.
Moltbook is a social media site built for conversation — but not for humans.
Venture capitalist and Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake talks to Big Think about why AI won’t make the internet better, her influences beyond tech, and more.
One does not simply make a meme go viral.
Will platforms continue to offer the like button as an all-purpose tool — or will each of the button’s various functions exist in new forms?
With undersea cables, AI education, and more, the tech giant is helping create Africa’s “digital decade.”
"Personhood" credentials could cleanse the internet of bots — but are the costs worth it?
"The evolution of digital media makes stricter regulation of online behavior not only feasible but inevitable," writes media ecologist Andrey Mir.
Cecilie Fjellhøy, from the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, shares her experience.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
In "Not Born Yesterday," author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
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Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.
If you lost your religion, it might be because the internet and social media are having a secularizing effect on American society.
Some Europeans really don't want to use the internet.
This world map shows how the rest of the world LOLs. In France, you MDR; in China, you 23333.
Moral dilemmas reveal the limitations of ethical principles. Oddly, the most principled belief system might not have any principles at all.
In "Off the Edge", journalist Kelly Weill dives down the strange rabbit hole of the flat-Earther community.
As the demonstrations grew, so did the internet service disruptions.
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?