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9 March, 201616 December, 2015

I’m done with trend pieces mocking women on social media

A dark-skinned person with kinky hair smiling at the camera
Posted in gender by s.e. smith

Every few months, I’m reading a trend piece about something wacky those silly ladies are doing. Did you know that ladies take selfies, and it’s evidence of how vain and self-involved they are? Or that ‘Instagram husbands‘ scuttle about doing the bidding of their wives, whipped by their spouses into enabling their glamorous social media […]

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25 January, 201627 October, 2015

The tech industry’s entitled attempt at owning the world

An edited Airbnb advertisement.
Posted in technology by s.e. smith

The tech industry’s high rate of activity in cities like San Francisco and New York is heralded as an economic victory, and maybe to some extent it should be, because there’s no doubt that the economy was struggling in the recession and the tech industry has been part of its revitalisation, but there’s a whole string […]

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20 November, 201530 August, 2015

Deleting offensive Tweets doesn’t make the problem go away

A brightly coloured bird
Posted in social justice by s.e. smith

Every other day, the internet is up in arms about something a corporation has posted on a social networking site, often with good reason. Some companies post really awful things, and it’s important to talk about those things when they happen — to discuss the problem, to challenge companies on why they thought it was […]

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5 August, 201423 February, 2016

The Dangers of Blithe Internet Activism

An interpretation of Twitter's famous Fail Whale, showing a whale sinking into the ocean while a bunch of birds try to bring it back to the surface.
Posted in technology by s.e. smith

If you’re on social media, you probably encounter them frequently: images of missing people, often girls, with a note saying that someone’s daughter/wife/sister is missing and a plea for anyone who sees her to get in touch with the original poster. Such images are widely circulated, often with a load of guilt attached — if […]

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