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Book Review
Margeaux Feldman
| Shraya's second novel explores how, while social media amplifies our jealousy and longing, it is not the root cause of these feelings. |
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Book Review
Cristina D'Amico
| Platforms like Facebook and Twitter extract their users' labour for profit. The solution, says author Richard Seymour in his new book, is a social industry strike. |
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Podcast
David Peck
| Journalist Robert Fisk and director Yung Chang talk about their new film "This Is Not A Movie," exploring the contemporary media landscape and the question "what is truth?" |
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Blog
Philip Lee
| Nearly seven out of 10 Canadian millennials get their news from social media. Should we be worried? |
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Activist Toolkit
| A tool to help check memes. |
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Blog
Maya Bhullar
| People say online activism makes no difference or that the left can't meme. But the right has weaponized trolling to radicalize users. Can we stop feeding the trolls -- and actually organize online? |
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Activist Toolkit
| A guide from Tactical Tech with strategies and tools. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Use of violent and abusive language on social media, sometimes translating into actual violence, is becoming a particular problem for women in politics, especially progressive women. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| A Medicine Hat preacher doesn't seem to have appreciated the online attention his sermon attracted Sunday -- thanks to an ill-advised tweet by an inattentive UCP candidate in a pew. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| The suggestion in Canadian media that alienation felt by Western Canadians in general and Albertans in particular is vastly on the rise simply defies credulity. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| An "electronic tidal wave" contributed to the defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment in 1998, what lessons does that hold for us today? |
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Blog
Victoria Henry
| Yesterday, Christopher Wylie, former Director of Research at Cambridge Analytica, testified before a Canadian parliamentary committee and answered questions on the state of privacy. |
