The internet isn’t real life. A lot of people need to learn that. It’s just information, words and pictures on a screen. Sometimes it does bleed over, but mostly you can take or leave the parts of it you want […]
There are many serious articles and studies on why U.S. politics is so polarised, both online and in the real world. Social media data shows that there are two separate echo chambers with precious few links in-between. People theorise it […]
I’m not one to buy into the modern fad of calling everything an epidemic or a crisis. The media uses alarmist words like these to grab our attention and inject fear directly into our eyeballs at every turn, but one […]
Internet outrage is something people love to partake in; even when a story isn’t true, is incomplete, or is obviously being sensationalized. It’s become an institution that borders on the dogmatic. Websites will whip their userbases into a self-righteous frenzy […]
