Liu Shichao, better known as Pangzai, has become a social media sensation with his oddly compelling videos of his everyday life.
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Twitter Will Ban Political Ads
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a series of tweets, “We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought.”
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What the “Can You Pet the Dog?” Test Reveals About Modern Video Games
Across social media, various players love to test game realism. What do the limits of this realism say about the future of the medium?
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When Tragedy Strikes, Social Media Posts Can Become Invaluable Artifacts
As Notre-Dame burned, there was controversy over people responding by sharing selfies they’d taken at the cathedral. But there may be public value in this practice.
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How Social Media Profiles Act as Bizarre Digital Gravestones
As more people die but their internet presences linger, we have to find ways to grapple with these documents of who they were.
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An AI Artist’s Twitter Feed Is an Art Gallery
The images and videos Mario Klingemann posted under the hashtag #BigGAN can only be appreciated by treating his Twitter feed as a digital exhibition.
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Comedian Spray Paints Hate Tweets Outside Twitter Headquarters
After Twitter refused to delete numerous hate tweets, Shahak Shapira, a Berlin-based Jewish comedian and author, spray painted them outside the company’s German headquarters.
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The Poetic Verse of Our Collective Google Queries
Type a search into Google and the most popular terms start auto-populating below, suggesting the collective desires, queries, and curiosities of internet users.
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Pigeons Recruited to Measure the Invisible Toxicity of London’s Air
Pigeons outfitted with lightweight backpacks soared over London from March 14 to 16, collecting air quality data across the city that was shared via Twitter.
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A Brief History of Kanye West’s Art Commentary on Twitter
This morning, School of the Art Institute of Chicago honorary degree holder Kanye West proclaimed on Twitter: “My tweets are a form of contemporary art only compromised by people trying to tell me what to tweet and not to tweet…”
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Inventive Twitter Projects Monitor Air Quality, Calm Chemo Patients, and More
At last month’s London Design Festival, six projects considered how Twitter might enable interactions beyond verbal communication.
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Why Don’t More Americans Go to Museums?
In the past we may have turned to pollsters or psychics, while today we turn to Twitter to look at the hive mind and discover why.