Better Ways to Imagine the Internet

The internet, like a real-life public square, is a space and not just a linguistic construct. It’s about the vibe you structure, the businesses you run, and the social architecture you build.

The kind of online engagement that matters isn’t just saying what you think, but creating the zones into which others may plug their thinking, find themselves welcomed and supported, and learn from one another.

Third, to respect memes is to respect the world around you, to see the value in the time you spend off the clock and in the people you were raised around. This latest authoritarian political project rests upon a fundamental disrespect for the world of regular people, and especially for the worlds of marginalized people. It relies on reducing you t

And yet, in most conversations, people assume the digital public is a pool of passive addicts or manipulable sheep, consumers rather than producers. Online cultural production is dismissed as shallow, and your own participation is thought of as a bad habit, a thing to cut out in a New Year’s Resolution list. The recent emergence of massive amounts