Despite a campaign that included 180,000 signatures, Facebook continues to post pro-rape pages, showing, yet again, that they care about users so long as they're profitable.
Sharif Abdel Kouddous, The Nation. August 25, 2011.
Taking to Facebook and Twitter, Egyptians are repeating and defending Asthma Mahfouz's viral message for human rights, forcing free speech into the country and facing arrest.
In their online lives, most people are shielded from viewpoints that do not mesh with their own, making it difficult to build the diverse coalitions that lead to real change.
The protagonist's angry fixation with elite social clubs exists in American life--as class resentment channeled into a perverse identification with the privileged.
G.W. Schulz, Center for Investigative Reporting. November 14, 2010.
Corporations and government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, are increasingly using new communications tools for surveillance purposes.
Melinda Blau, Psychotherapy Networker. September 16, 2010.
The Internet may seem like a 21st-century nightmare version of the worst excesses of the marketplace. But it's also creating new possibilities for connection and conversation.
