Evan Selinger

Articles

• Blaming the Internet Is Not the Answer

  Evan Selinger reviews Andrew Keen's "The Internet Is Not the Answer"

  Evan SelingerMay 16, 2015

  • Science & Technology

• The Black Box Within: Quantified Selves, Self-Directed Surveillance, and the Dark Side of Datification

  What happens when “life as we know it” becomes a series of occasions to collect, analyze, and use data to determine what’s true, opportune, or even right to do? According to Luke Dormehl, much more than we bargained for.

  Evan SelingerFeb 17, 2015

  • Nonfiction

  • Science & Technology

• Too Much Magic, Too Little Social Friction: Why Objects Shouldn’t Be Enchanted

  Magic’s unintended consequences.

  Evan SelingerJan 8, 2015

  • Science & Technology

• OkCupid’s XOXO for Big Surveillance

  Love in the time of lab rats.

  Evan SelingerOct 20, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Science & Technology

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  Replicated Communities: Bianca Bosker’s “Original Copies”

  Bianca Bosker has written a fascinating, nuanced, visually compelling, and extremely readable book about China's "duplitecture."

  Evan SelingerAug 30, 2013