How the Internet Makes Women’s Work Visible
When I left my fancy corporate job so that I’d have the flexibility to support my autistic son, I was afraid I’d disappear.
Freeing Your New Year’s Resolutions from “False Hope Syndrome”
We have migrated the New Year’s resolution onto the Internet, without stopping to ask how the digital context changes its power or impact.
Full Disclosure: Why We Say Too Much When We Write Online
The internet is an emotional vampire. Scroll through your latest social network updates—or the headlines on Medium and ...
To Fix Fake News, Look To Yellow Journalism
Fake news has plenty of precedents in the history of mass media, and particularly, in the history of American journalism.
Navigating Traumatic Events Online
We need to approach our online conversations with an awareness of the different levels of risk and vulnerability each of us bring.
How To Wrap Your Head Around Even The Most Complex Subjects
A 2x2 matrix is a great way of mapping just about any idea, research topic, or set of observations on two dimensions.
Making Sense of Social Gaming
What do social gaming habits reveal about the lives of those playing?
Inventing Rituals for the Digital World
How do we recognize our digital milestones?
How To Live With Internet Trolls
We need to start thinking about how to live with internet trolls even while we look for ways to reduce or eliminating trolling.
A Labor Day Look at the Future of Work
If computers endanger the hard-won gains of the labor movement, do we need a new way of addressing tech-driven income inequality?