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  • What’s So Social About Social Media?

    Melissa Aronczyk

    Social media is possibly the worst thing that’s ever happened to media scholars. I’m not referring to the phenomenon of Facebook, Twitter, and other brand-name-as-verb online platforms—experienced, by the end of 2011, by 82 percent of all Internet users over the age of 15.1 I’m not talking about the digital media industry, a simmering cauldron…

  • The Folly of Technological Solutionism: An Interview with Evgeny Morozov
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    The Folly of Technological Solutionism: An Interview with Evgeny Morozov

    Natasha Dow Schüll

    Evgeny Morozov, a former denizen of the technology world, gained notoriety as a skeptic of that world with his 2010 book The Net Delusion, in which he argued that technology enthusiasts or “cyber …

  • A New Climate Politics

    Zenia Kish

    “Crisis” reverberates through recent scholarly conversations and mass media representations alike as the framework of choice for understanding recent global upheavals: From the financial sector breakdown to Arab Spring revolutions to global climate change, we observe a persistent attempt to segregate crises into coherent, and largely independent, units. What happens, however, when we track the…

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