Internet

What Netflix did next: five icons & some bland AF teenagers
Film

What Netflix did next: five icons & some bland AF teenagers

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s new releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s Wine Country (fine) and The Last Summer (a disgrace).

Written by: Megan Nolan

Love, sex & Google: living with OCD in the digital age
Tech

Love, sex & Google: living with OCD in the digital age

Online obsessions — The internet, with its promise of immediate answers, can be a battleground for people with OCD – particularly when it comes to relationships.

Written by: Clea Skopeliti

Right-wing nation: how the UK media became broken & biased
Opinion

Right-wing nation: how the UK media became broken & biased

We deserve better — Racism, bigotry, and a slowly shifting centre – writer Micha Frazer-Carroll explores how the British press became partisan without anyone noticing.

Written by: Micha Frazer-Carroll

Is the internet leading us into a 21st century dark age?
Tech

Is the internet leading us into a 21st century dark age?

New Romantics — Social media platforms keep guzzling our most personal data, with the promise it will be saved forever – but what if it was all lost?

Written by: Emily Reynolds

Ghost in the machine: inside the internet’s paranormal history
Tech

Ghost in the machine: inside the internet’s paranormal history

Face The Strange — Haunted websites, digital myths and abandoned online spaces: writer Biju Belinky shines a light into the internet’s creepiest corners.

Written by: Biju Belinky

What our online history can tell us about who we are
Tech

What our online history can tell us about who we are

New Romantics — Our social media experiences reveal a lot about who we are, how we communicate, and what we want to say. Understanding them could help us connect to each other better, writes Emily Reynolds.

Written by: Emily Reynolds

How Tumblr became a sanctuary for the Internet’s outsiders
Tech

How Tumblr became a sanctuary for the Internet’s outsiders

End of an era — The blogging website’s ban on adult content threatens to alienate the most marginalised in society, and block future generations’ road to self-discovery.

Written by: Lydia Morrish

Cancel culture: when celebrity worship goes wrong
Tech

Cancel culture: when celebrity worship goes wrong

Notes on online outrage — Calling out injustice, sexual abuse, corruption, and industry-protected violence is necessary, argues Ayishat Akanbi. But too often we’re aiming at the wrong target.

Written by: Ayishat Akanbi

A letter to the men who abuse me online
Opinion

A letter to the men who abuse me online

...and it is always men — As a woman writer with political opinions, Dawn Foster is a regular target for trolls – receiving death and rape threats on a daily basis. As this behaviour becomes increasingly normalised, she argues that the true danger lies in desensitisation.

Written by: Dawn Foster

The internet’s forgotten shit pics are accidentally amazing
Photography

The internet’s forgotten shit pics are accidentally amazing

Abandoned images — To relieve the boredom of his day job, Doug Battenhausen has been mining defunct websites for years – harvesting long-discarded gems from the bottom of the web.

Written by: Cian Traynor

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