Online

Are Stans the internet’s most toxic subculture?
Opinion

Are Stans the internet’s most toxic subculture?

Fear of the fandom — From Beyonce’s Beyhive to Rihanna’s Navy: the world of online fandom has become both impressive and extreme. Is it time we took its power more seriously?

Written by: Anne T. Donahue

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

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

Romantic storytelling & the way we perform love online
Tech

Romantic storytelling & the way we perform love online

New Romantics — Telling a story with ourselves at the centre is the way that we make sense of the world, writes Emily Reynolds. But when we tell this story to an audience we don’t quite know, it cheapens everything.

Written by: Emily Reynolds

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

Has Mumsnet become a hub of online transphobia?
Opinion

Has Mumsnet become a hub of online transphobia?

From Where I Stand — Parenting site Mumsnet, founded as a place of support, has become abundant with threads about trans people’s rights - as if they are up for debate. The website, says former employee Hannah Woodhead, has a responsibility to step in and call this what it is: transphobia.

Written by: Hannah Woodhead

The cam girls dragging renaissance art into the 21st century
Art

The cam girls dragging renaissance art into the 21st century

Reclaiming the gaze — Artist and curator Sessa Omoregie merges Boticcelli's Venus and other famous renaissance images with webcam selfies from today, posing questions about identity and what it means to a woman online.

Written by: Biju Belinky

Getting back in touch with our Fifth Sense
Culture

Getting back in touch with our Fifth Sense

Huck x CHANEL x i-D — It’s all well and good viewing art through the screens of our laptops; but a new collaborative project between CHANEL and i-D is exploring the impact of a truly sensual immersive art installation. The Fifth Sense brings together the finest creative women and has given them free reign over our senses.

Written by: Marianna Manson

My stint as a financial dominatrix taught me free money isn't all it seems
Outdoors

My stint as a financial dominatrix taught me free money isn't all it seems

Who holds the power? — We've all got our own little kinks in the bedroom, fantasies of all types and fashions that provide a thrill from the bizarre to the sublime. Abi Wilkinson received a message from a man offering her cash, for which she'd have to do nothing. It made her wonder, is the world of financial domination just too good to be true?

Written by: Abi Wilkinson

The computer game forcing you to question your views about privacy online
Culture

The computer game forcing you to question your views about privacy online

Spying on your fellow citizens — Watching personal communications, accessing private files and surveying citizens’ online presence - you have been selected by the government to help them discover who is behind terror attacks in The Nation. The information you supply will have consequences: how will you play?

Written by: Emily Casey

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