Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In
As a former (veteran, even) employee of Twitter, I am used to people expressing shock and…
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Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform
Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…
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3 Takeaways from #Easter2015
Easter is the most Rocky-like story in the Christian canon. There’s blood, a sudden reversal, and…
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Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”
“As a Muslim Bangladeshi, social media has transported me across the world…”
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The Papal Prayer Machine
With Twitter, there is just the right mix of calculable dissemination and mystery. You know who has retweeted or favorited your prayer, but what of the followers of the followers of the followers who follow you who did not retweet or favorite but may have read and been affected by your prayer?
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Pope Tweeted into Retirement
Perhaps it wasn’t just the pope’s health that sent him into retirement, but his consternation at our increasingly networked lives.
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Pope Follows Himself in Twitter Echo Chamber
At the end of the day, ministry without meaningful engagement is merely a form of advertising.
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From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East
What happens in the Middle East isn’t always about us.
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Church Uses Facebook for Sacramental Scrutiny at its Peril
While the Catholic Church has certainly gone out of its way to encourage the use of social media to spread the gospel, it’s unlikely it intended the creepy surveillance that recently took place in a Minnesota parish.
Read MoreA Tale of Religious Tolerance… On Reddit
When “european_douchebag” posted a photo of a young woman he got more than he bargained for.
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