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Caitlin Dewey
Caitlin Dewey is a reporter and essayist based in Buffalo, N.Y. She was the first digital culture critic at the Washington Post and has hired fake boyfriends, mucked out cow barns and braved online mobs in pursuit of stories for outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Cut, Elle, Slate and Cosmopolitan.
Links I Would Gchat You If We Were FriendsThe 20 best viral personal essays of the past 20 years
I read dozens of viral essays to come up with this list: a time capsule of "squirmy, awful, brilliant" confessional writing from an earlier internet.
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The twenty best viral personal essays of the past 20 years
I read dozens of viral essays to come up with this list: a time capsule of "squirmy, awful, brilliant" confessional writing from an earlier internet.
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Laws aimed at "addictive" social media feeds suffer from an unpleasant irony
States are regulating teen internet use even as they greenlight online gambling.
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"Wikipedia says no individual has a monopoly on truth": an interview with author Stephen Harrison
Harrison's forthcoming novel, "The Editors," is a timely techno-thriller based in its author's experience reporting on Wikipedia.
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Your "song of the summer" probably came from TikTok
Hits like Shaboozey's "A Bar Song" and Benson Boone's "Beautiful Things" definitively prove that internet culture and pop culture are the same thing.
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Departure of big-name Peloton instructors is not a good sign for fans
Ross Rayburn, Kristin McGee and Kendall Toole taught their last Peloton classes in June -- but they're not the only instructors stretching outside the platform.
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"It’s impossible to be 'real' on the internet": an interview with "Such A Bad Influence" author Olivia Muenter
"It’s impossible to be 'real' on the internet": an interview with "Such A Bad Influence" author Olivia Muenter
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10 articles about teens and social media that every parent should read
A tech journalist and psychology researcher teamed up to make a reading guide that answers one critical question: What's going on with kids and screens?
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Why you should reverse image search before you buy online
As furniture and home goods sales have moved online, many retailers have begun selling identical items under different names and at wildly different prices.
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From the Samsung Frame to transparent screens, Americans are embracing 'disguised' TVs
Screens "have become home infrastructure, like pipes or cables,” one expert said. That's popularized a new generation of TVs that don't look like televisions.
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Why does everything on the internet look the same now?
From typefaces, websites and logos to buildings, cars and home decor, a handful of internet and design industry trends are making everything look more similar.
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The relationships were artificial. But the grief is real.
AI romances are flourishing on apps like Replika. But users can feel tremendous loss when those relationships end, akin to grief for human relationships.
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Actually, the internet's always been this bad
Researchers evaluated more than half a billion internet comments spanning 30 years and concluded that online discourse actually isn't getting more "toxic."
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Why Silicon Valley still has a gender problem
An interview on AI hype, Mad Men and women in tech with the historian Margaret O'Mara
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From Stanleys to so-called "sexy water," performative hydration has gone too far
Social media overflows with exhortations to hydrate: for your skin, your sanity, your overall wellness. When did drinking water become such a production?