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Antiwork, and the Politics of Organization
From December 2020 to January 2022, r/antiwork was one of the fastest-growing communities, or subreddits, on the social network Reddit....
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Apr 6, 20225 min read


Humanizing Politics: The Effect of Social Media on Governance
Rep. Tim Ryan is pictured here talking to a constituent. In an interview with BPR, Ryan said that he enjoys the ability of social media...
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Nov 4, 20146 min read


Telemedicine: Planned Parenthood’s Venture Into Virtual Care
In September, Planned Parenthood launched the pilot program of a new service: virtual consultations with its health care providers. To...
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Nov 4, 20145 min read


Innovation in a Digital World: Stealing Software
In June, the Supreme Court ruled that a group of banking-related software patents were invalid. The ruling was received with as much...
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Nov 4, 20145 min read


Democracy at Your Fingertips
Art by Kristine Mar. Demos kratia, Greek for “people rule,” better known as “democracy” in English, has meant various things for various...
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Nov 4, 20145 min read


The Advent of the Edited Celebrity
Art by Soraya Ferdman. Facebook statuses, tweets and Instagram posts have all been credited as by-products of a new, stream of...
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Nov 4, 20144 min read


The Means of Ideation: The Internet’s Threat to the Status Quo
Art by Julia Ladics. The basis of US politics has come to strikingly resemble the computer binary system. Our political dialogue has come...
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Nov 4, 20145 min read


Political Hashtagging: Is Online Activism Effective?
Infographic by Keren Alfred. Everyday, 271 million Twitter users send 500 million tweets into the online world, creating a huge...
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Nov 4, 20144 min read


Re-Homing: a Virtual Black Market for Adoption
“We adopted a boy from Guatemala who is 7 years old…and he has attachment issues…Today was the last straw — he is just getting worse and...
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Nov 4, 20147 min read


Shining Light on the Dark Web
There’s a pretty good chance I’m being tracked by the NSA. After some questionable Google searches for this article, some in-depth...
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Nov 4, 201410 min read


The Media’s New Clothes
Art by Julia Rosenfield. A riddle: An award-winning journalist with his own CNN segment and Washington Post column is accused of...
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Nov 4, 20144 min read


Land of the Free, Home of the Neutral
Few things in this country are ever neutral. Surprisingly, the Internet seems to be one of the few. It is the platform on which opinions...
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Nov 4, 20146 min read


Can Buddy Cianci Survive in the Age of Buzzfeed?
Art by Kwang Choi. Buddy Cianci has dominated Providence politics ever since first being elected mayor in 1974. For the past 40 years,...
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Nov 4, 20145 min read


Pitfalls of the Blogosphere
The Internet has democratized information. Websites have effectively eradicated the barriers to access that once prevented individuals...
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Nov 4, 20144 min read


Trading Blackboards for Computer Screens: Online Education
It’s a well-worn cliché that older generations complain about their descendants’ privileges, but that doesn’t mean that it is any less...
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Nov 4, 20145 min read
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