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Internet

Thesis

The internet is now a required global commons. Identity inside it is no longer innate but discovered, commoditized, and performed. Because participation is mandatory, the social frameworks once anchored in physical communities now operate at a scale and speed that fundamentally changes us.

Caroline Landvik

The Death of the Stable Self

Microtrends and the internet's effect on American identity

You Are Your Content

The moment the visage and the body divorced

Caroline Landvik

Layman's Opinion

Everyday Americans on censorship, hate speech, and the First Amendment

Culture Wars

How campaigning became the instrument of government

Chatbot Socialization

What it means to be raised by something that cannot raise you back.

Parasocial Relationships

Walter Cronkite to TikTok lives

Jack Large & Dawson Smith

The Body is the Soul

Notes on looksmaxxing

Fandoms

How the algorithm became the community organizer.

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