The World Wide Web

We need better ways to control how vulnerable we make ourselves online, treating our virtual selves more like our physical ones rather than less.

Social media allows us to connect with people on a level we wouldn’t otherwise have access to—but we may have gone too far.

YouTube, Uber, Google, Amazon—they all have at least one thing in common: You, the consumer, are up for sale. They’re just building the means of reaching as many of you as possible.

Subway cars happen to be an ideal setting for capturing footage of fights, but all of the popular clips don't mean below-ground violence is actually rising.

The conundrum of online video advertising.

A transgender activist, an Egyptian blogger, and a porn star explain the crucial identities connected to names they weren't born with.

Five decades on, what can Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media tell us about today?

An etiquette expert, a social scientist, and an old pal of mine ponder the ever-shifting rules of friendship.

By blaming specific subcultures, we ignore a much larger and more troubling social pathology.

Twitter has created its own buzzing, digital agora, but when users want to speak amongst themselves, they tend to leave for another platform. It's a social network that helps you find people to talk to—but barely lets you do any talking.

An 80-year-old ruling that has become a pillar of privacy law in the United States doesn’t hold up in the Internet age.

It's not because they want to. It's because they have no other choice.

Become a master of Bayesian statistics.

In Love Child, documentary filmmaker Valerie Veatch explores how virtual worlds encourage us to erase the boundary between digital and real, no matter the consequences.

On Android's ever-changing quest to find a working typeface for all of its devices.

A number of advertisers have tried to pull Internet Culture off the Web and put it onto your television screen.

Everyone's writing about Taylor Swift writing for the Wall Street Journal.

What was once the domain of literary critics has now become the world of the Secret Service.

We often judge the Internet based on the relatively few stories of success—where democratization seems to operate—rather than the millions of failures. Viral is the exception, big broadcasts—and lonely voices whistling in the digital hurricane—are the norm.

Panic about the rise of social media is largely overhyped and misplaced.

If you think of the Internet as a public good, then think again. Internet service providers are finding new ways to monetize their customers, and all signs point to bigger bills for everyone.

If the beloved platform falls short of our public discourse, can we imagine a more public alternative?

The decline in religiosity in the U.S. is accompanied by a rise in Internet access. But the factors determining faith are far more complicated than a Wi-Fi connection.