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Could we crowdfund the dole?
Following the announcement of the 2014 budget, the director of a leading arts organisation posed a question on Facebook: ‘What recourse do the people have to stop these changes? What are next steps?...
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Reality vs. Instagram
Image credit: James Butler Over at crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, a group of Edinburgh-based hipsters recently announced their intention to produce a range of amber-tinted Wayfarer-knockoffs. So...
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Making trolls eat their words
When I co-edited a student magazine several years ago, a troll would send me long, handwritten screeds in shaky capital letters. Once, they’d underlined a passage with such force that the paper had...
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Death to the Inbox
Image credit: Gideon Tsang Almost every drawn-out, passive-aggressive argument I’ve ever participated in is archived in my Gmail inbox, tagged ‘work’. With the benefit of hindsight and Gmail’s...
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Silicon Valley will eat itself
At a certain point in the lifespan of any subculture, fiction and reality start to blur. Members of the subculture begin to model their character and appearance on the idealised representations of...
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Speaking with pixels
On the Facebook Newsfeed, it’s now possible to click a tiny smiley face inside almost any textbox to bring up a series of thumbnail images: an alligator bawling into a tissue, say, or a whistling fox...
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Don’t Look: The emergence of Streisand criticism
Above: Barbra Streisand’s beach house In the wake of the recent nude celebrity photo leak, I noticed something strange about the ways different publications skewed their coverage. Tabloid-style...
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Jacqui Lambie and the limits of Remix Culture
Image credit: Austin Kleon On September 18, far-right British nationalist party Britain First posted an image to their Facebook page. Like most of the images shared by Britain First, and many of the...
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The Rise of the High-Minded Startup
On every page of Ello, the self-described ‘simple, beautiful and ad-free’ social network, is a link to their “manifesto”. ‘Advertisers buy your data so they can show you more ads,’ the document reads....
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Patrons and gamemakers in the shadow of Gamergate
After showing off two incredible videogames-in-progress – one, Magenta Sunset, an ‘immersive, atmospheric first-person adventure game with a focus on minute interactivity’, the other Spacething, a...
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Pictures of pictures: Monument Valley and the rise of the in-game photographer
As you play through Monument Valley (perhaps the most beautiful, delicately-constructed game now available on mobile) a single faint button hovers in the upper left corner. Tap it, and you’re granted...
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Taking up space: The legitimisation of creepshotting
On nearly every site on Three Ring Blogs network, a significant portion of posts take the form of images in which a subject has been photographed in public without their knowledge or consent. From...
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Best of 2014 (Part One): TV, Books, Technology
As the year draws to an end, we prepare to farewell our brilliant 2014 Killings columnists. Over two days, these discerning arbiters of all that is noteworthy and significant in popular culture will...
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Death to the Inbox
Image credit: Gideon Tsang Almost every drawn-out, passive-aggressive argument I’ve ever participated in is archived in my Gmail inbox, tagged ‘work’. With the benefit of hindsight and Gmail’s...
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Death to the Inbox
Image credit: Gideon Tsang Almost every drawn-out, passive-aggressive argument I’ve ever participated in is archived in my Gmail inbox, tagged ‘work’. With the benefit of hindsight and Gmail’s...
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Making trolls eat their words
When I co-edited a student magazine several years ago, a troll would send me long, handwritten screeds in shaky capital letters. Once, they’d underlined a passage with such force that the paper had...
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