Social Media Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/social-media/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Social Media Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/social-media/ 32 32 Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds https://www.publicbooks.org/etherized-anne-enright-in-conversation-with-paige-reynolds/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55883 “There is a kind of moment of doom when you commit to a character. Because none of my characters are lovely.”

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]]> The Multiplication of Monsters: Misinformation from Gutenberg to QAnon https://www.publicbooks.org/the-multiplication-of-monsters-from-gutenberg-to-qanon/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55521 Throughout history the introduction of new technologies has increased the circulation and acceptance of rumors and disinformation.

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]]> What’s on Top of TikTok? https://www.publicbooks.org/whats-on-top-of-tiktok/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:00:43 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54074 The videos of TikToks can easily reach billions. But because the app won’t share what’s popular, we don’t know just what the world is watching.

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]]> We Want Our Catastrophe TV https://www.publicbooks.org/we-want-our-catastrophe-tv/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53960 “We can ask why Squid Game was so popular. But really we should be asking how any show becomes a global success at all.”

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]]> Dead Links https://www.publicbooks.org/dead-links/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53861 Tech titans gained power and wealth from the accumulation of data, but that doesn’t mean they are equipped to be long-term stewards of personal and collective memories.

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]]> “Gestures of Refusal”: A Conversation with Sarah Bernstein and Daisy Lafarge https://www.publicbooks.org/gestures-of-refusal-a-conversation-with-sarah-bernstein-and-daisy-lafarge/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53417 “Why do we want our characters to be innocent, as if we are innocent ourselves?”

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]]> “Content” Erases Wall Between Fact & Fiction https://www.publicbooks.org/content-erases-wall-between-fact-fiction/ Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49391 “We’ve never had a period like this in modern American history,” lamented Governor DeSantis in April 2020, one with “such little new content.”

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]]> Public Thinker: Lara Putnam Wants You to Knock on Your Neighbor’s Door https://www.publicbooks.org/lara-putnam-wants-you-to-knock-on-your-neighbors-door/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49143 “Campaigns matter in part because of who meets whom, about the social networks that are shaped by that campaign as well as shaping it.”

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]]> The Melting of the American Mind https://www.publicbooks.org/the-melting-of-the-american-mind/ Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:00:53 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45090 Figuring out how people became fascists was the aim of Adorno and his colleagues’ 1950 study, The Authoritarian Personality. Has the answer changed?

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]]> The Ten Thousand Things https://www.publicbooks.org/the-ten-thousand-things/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:00:34 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44166 “I am supposed to be writing this essay, ostensibly on technology, but not for the first time, I believe I am unable to write; and not writing, doubt that I will I ever write again.”

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