digital-culture

Internet Research is Hard

5 minute read

At the end of last year, a group of researchers thought that they had a great idea for solving a common problem in social media research.

Pepe the Frog at Kiasma

3 minute read

Last year me and Johannes Koski published our study on a series of fascinating and confusing events.

Why is Mastodon Growing?

3 minute read

Mastodon is a decentralized Twitter alternative growing fast. What is driving its growth?

Context Collapse and Mastodon

2 minute read

Facebook assumes we have only one identity, but that’s never been true. Social media has to allow for multiple selves.

Surveillance Capitalism - A Case Study

5 minute read

Surveillance capitalism is the new default way of doing business on the internet. Even businesses that don’t need to collect data do so because it’s so easy.

Living with Algorithms

3 minute read

I spent last Friday at a seminar about algorithms. We discussed everything from health technology and citizenship in the digital era to the structure of neur...

How to Change the World with Memes

11 minute read

I gave a talk at National Meeting of English Students about the political use of memes. In case you missed it, here is what I intended to say. It might not b...

Everything is a Computer

1 minute read

You probably didn’t notice that there was a fundamental shift in how technology operates in and integrates into our lives. It used to be that there were cust...