Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A demonstrator takes part in a protest march for survivors of sexual assault and their supporters in Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2017. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It was a classic social media firestorm. On the afternoon of Jan. 9, Dayna Tortorici, the editor of n+1 magazine, tweeted: “It’s come to my attention that a legacy print…
In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing. The anonymous, crowdsourced document was a first attempt at solving what has seemed like an intractable problem: how women can protect ourselves from sexual…
Twitter missed a Monday deadline to respond to written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian online interference in the election, the panel’s top Democrat said on Tuesday. “Facebook and Google met the deadline, and [with] voluminous amounts of information, Twitter did not,” Sen. Mark Warner told Axios. “I’m disappointed in Twitter.” Why it…
close story-meta Photo Credit Illustration by Jon Han In a series of studies published in 2012, two psychologists, Ara Norenzayan and Will Gervais, set out to test a simple question: When people think about God, do they feel or act as if they are being monitored? Subjects of varying religiosity were primed to think about…
In the scramble to prove digital advertising works, some legacy performance measurement systems used for traditional media auditing were retrofitted for digital. That’s produced “catastrophic” results for both brand advertisers and publishers, according to a media auditor executive who spoke to Digiday as part of our Confessions series, in which we exchange anonymity for candor….
Snapchat takes its secrecy seriously. Very, very seriously. Take the case of one former Snapchat employee. On his first day, he was forced to sit through an ominous orientation in which he was threatened with termination if he so much as breathed a word of what he was working on to friends or family. He…
Why is Fire & Fury having such an impact? Drew Magary writes it’s because Wolff was willing to throw decorum away and torch his access—and more journalists should do the same. I’m gonna begin this post with the same disclaimer that needs to come with every post about Michael Wolff, which is that Wolff is…
The addition of social media to America’s already brain-meltingly stupid political culture has made reading the news nearly unbearable. In order to avoid being overstimulated, I often mentally zoom out and imagine the current era through the eyes of future historians. At times, I’ve worried that the currently strong economy might overshadow President Donald Trump’s…
President Donald Trump is considering a military strike against North Korea that his advisers hope, somehow, wouldn’t lead to war. It’s called the “bloody nose” strategy, and it’s based off of the idea that if America launched a limited military strike against North Korea — say, by attacking one of their facilities — that they could…
Ads that automatically redirect you from your daily browsing to a flashy sweepstakes have long been an incredibly annoying facet of the internet. But the versions that have evolved on the mobile web are particularly vexing, because they can trap you with a pop-up “notification” and nowhere to go. And a recent surge in these…