A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality. Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on ind...

How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age. Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum...

An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda. Until recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Today, as Samue...

The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future. Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer network...

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work. Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II. As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The med...

Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, over 100,000 commercial content mo...

In 1943, Time Inc. editor-in-chief Henry R. Luce sponsored the greatest collaboration of intellectuals in the twentieth century. He and University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins summoned the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the Pulitzer-win...

Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts bolster or berate politicians on Twitter. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their bunk. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies...

Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane's power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft's speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms...