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Essays and metajournalism on digital culture and contemporary media by a cultural critic, critical theorist, former communications and journalism professor, and a working journalist with 27 years in the field at six publications.
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The Truth About Bluesky: The Five Things You Need to Know About the Buzzy New Social Networking Service
I’ve been on 130 social media sites and publish a leading ranking of alternatives to Twitter. I was a professor of digital communications and…
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Seth Abramson
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AI Art Is a Controversial Disruptor Here to Stay—and While It’s Neither Illegal Nor Immoral, It Will Cause Real Pain to Some Artists
Every art-form experiences systemic disruptions induced by new technologies and paradigms. These disruptions can be financially harmful to certain…
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Seth Abramson
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Joe Rogan and the New Paranoia
Until we better understand what paranoia and conspiracy theory look like in practice—rather than just in social media rhetoric—we'll keep missing…
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Seth Abramson
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Trumpist Insurrectionists Have Now Created a Systematized Mechanism for "Cancelling" People and Groups—and It's the Most Comprehensive…
The number of brands explicitly targeted for cancellation by Patriot.Win is staggering, representing a cultist/militant rejection of both the American…
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Seth Abramson
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Expertise As We Knew It Is Dead, Thank God
But the manner of death of "expertise" isn't what you think or have been told—and moreover, most of the consequences of its demise are robustly…
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Seth Abramson
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Lecture Series #6: The Future of Journalism
A lecture on a pressing topic by a university journalism professor.
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Seth Abramson
Lecture Series #5: The End of Hard News
A lecture on a pressing topic by a university journalism professor.
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Seth Abramson
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