Internet Culture

Internet Culture

A book cover with colorful shapes set against a mysterious Dark Forest backdrop.
Writer and media theorist Bogna Konior connects cosmos and computer by reconsidering our eerily silent Universe.
Silhouette of Reddit's alien mascot overlaid on abstract geometric shapes and patterns in green, blue, and beige tones.
Moltbook is a social media site built for conversation — but not for humans.
A grayscale portrait of Caterina Fake is centered between an FDNY ambulance on the left and patterned designs with circular symbols on the right.
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.
Illustration of a thumbs up and thumbs down, resembling a like button and dislike button, on a black background, both partially covered with red scribble marks.
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?
Children in a classroom use tablets with headphones while a teacher writes on a chalkboard.
With undersea cables, AI education, and more, the tech giant is helping create Africa’s “digital decade.”
A man looking at a mirror.
"Personhood" credentials could cleanse the internet of bots — but are the costs worth it?
Collage of social media icons and pixelated images in a grid layout, featuring Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook logos on a red background.
"The evolution of digital media makes stricter regulation of online behavior not only feasible but inevitable," writes media ecologist Andrey Mir.
Two men wearing glasses walk side by side outdoors in a sunlit park, with blurred greenery and other people in the background, discussing recent incidents of romance fraud.
Cecilie Fjellhøy, from the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, shares her experience.
Close-up of a human eye on the left, and a blurred image of a person without clothing on the right, depicting themes that border on pornography.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
Three Masai men, dressed in traditional attire and adorned with beaded jewelry, gather around a smartphone in an outdoor setting.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
Abstract digital collage featuring a hand holding a phone with news content, binary code, and a stylized onion logo against a green and blue pixelated background.
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
A collage of speech bubbles containing randomly oriented text, scribbles, and abstract shapes on a black background. Some bubbles feature words like "news" and "missed" partially visible.
In "Not Born Yesterday," author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.
Places that do not exist infographic.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
a roll of patriotic ribbon on a white surface.
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
An abandoned church in a field
If you lost your religion, it might be because the internet and social media are having a secularizing effect on American society.
europe digital divide
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.
internet language
You better like and share this article lol.
moral dilemmas
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.
Dark Academia
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?