Digital minimalists are using simple talk-and-text devices to spend less time online, curb distraction, and navigate internet addiction
Replika users believe their AI companion chatbots have come to life
Cyberbits #3: Digging in to the creator side of Study Web
Cyberbits #2: Avatars in Active Worlds, Online Ambivalence, and Alt Accounts
Exploring Gen Z’s Ambitious and Anxiety-Fuelled Pursuit of Straight A’s Across YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter
Writers are using apps like Sudowrite and Subtxt to craft essays, short stories, and screenplays
An Interview with Don Caldwell, the Editor-in-Chief of Know Your Meme
How the professional platform makes networking weird
Cyberbits #4: The rise and fall of social media networks
How drama, tea, and commentary channels keep tabs on internet influencers
Big tech’s highest-paid workers get real on an anonymous professional social network
Cyberbits Edition #1, a weekly curated newsletter of internet finds.
The disappearing divide between “followers” and “friends”
The Past, Present, and Future of Online Identity
Inside the online communities where people love to hate
Cyberbits #5: A housemaid in Kuwait, incarcerated inmates, and other unlikely creators
Book Review—Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany
Hustle Culture Takes Center Stage on the Audio Social App
Cyberbits #6: The quest to use the internet less
How Spoonbill reveals our obsession with identity
How online platforms monetize one-sided bonds between creators and fans
The demands of daily livestreaming are driving creators to rethink the benefits of Twitch fame
Nadir Matti, the Founder of Study Together, chats gamification, partnering with platforms, and the ins-and-outs of community building
Cyberbits #11: Deciphering the hidden meaning behind popular lyrics
