Posts Tagged by internet
Beware the n00bs
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
Ah, nostalgia – how we love thee. That song your dad used to sing you to sleep with (The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever). That movie you’ve seen so many times you could practically recite it by heart (Beetlejuice). That TV show you used to watch over and over and over again during long lazy summer days (Bewitched). When it comes to the…
Book excerpt: The Age of the Remix
| May 7, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
It’s fun to find something cool on the internet. It’s even more fun to share it with somebody else. Such is the ethos behind the wildly popular Reddit community, a social news website where eight million active users[i] submit content and vote it up or down in popularity and site ranking. With over 111,000 topical “subreddits”[ii] and a voting-based comment system that encourages…
I’m a time-shifter (and so are you)
| March 26, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
I used to be one of those people who hated TV. You know the type – I didn’t own one and I wouldn’t allow one in my home. My laptop was my own personal movie theater, and for me that was enough. A few years later I upgraded to a dedicated monitor, and not long after that I caved in and got myself…
Then and now: comic edition
| January 11, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
This week marked a first in my 17 years of internet use: my mom forwarded me a legitimately funny email (and one that originated on Reddit, to boot). The email in question contained a bunch of then and now comics and, coming from somebody whose leisure internet usage consists of family photos on Facebook and prolonged solitaire battles (I love you mom), it…
The impossibility of a screen-free life
| January 4, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture, The offline world |
When was the last time you went screen-free for a day? I’m not even talking about a whole week or a month here – just a single day. When was the last time you went screen-free for a whopping 24 hours? Spending any amount of time without a screen is getting harder and harder with each year that goes by. So how exactly…
The internet we breathe
| September 21, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Work/Life Separation |
Early man might have had that whole fire thing going for him, but that’s nothing compared to our newest resource of choice: the internet. A new study released by Cisco found that 1 in 3 college students and employees ranks the internet as a fundamental resource for the human race – right up there with air, water, food and shelter. More than half…
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