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How internet culture is morphing our personal identities into public personas

A new book called "Screen People" argues that's what society has become: a people defined by screens, what we do with those screens and how we present ourselves on those screens. A...

Pop culture expands into online entertainment trends

Pop culture no longer lives just on movie screens and magazine covers. It now thrives in the digital arenas where we play. The lines between celebrity, story, and interactive exper...

Memes emerge as powerful voice in digital culture

Some of the most engaging moments on the Internet during the present war in the Middle East are actually coming from the incessant barrage of short videos commenting on the war. Le...

The Rise of Spontaneous Online Conversations in Modern Culture

Conversation used to happen face to face. Now it often sparks in a browser tab or an app, sudden and short-lived. These spontaneous online talks—quick group chats, live audio rooms...

War Memes Are Turning Conflict Into Content

The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious.

Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.

From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.

The Wild and Wonderful Early Days of the Internet

There’s A New Name For Those Pierced, Weird-Looking Internet Addicts You Keep Seeing

The trends that were once confined to Discord servers and convention floors have now gone mainstream.

How Social Media Cancel Cultural Impacts Young Mind

By: Manas Gumber, final-year BJMC studentOne wrong tweet, and your mentions explode. My friend joked about a viral trend – innocent, silly. Next morning, screenshots everywhere, “c...

Remembering the First Internet Legends (Before All the Influencers)

A case study in overexcited ‘drop culture’

The Sound of the Internet: What Meme Audio Reveals About Contemporary Listening Culture

For much of human history, societies have organized themselves around shared sonic experiences. Sacred chants, folk songs, military marches, opera arias, radio broadcasts, and symp...

How Geek Communities Are Using Random Video Chat Sites

In 2026, random video chat platforms have gained popularity among geek and parenting communities, allowing users to engage in casual conversations without commitment. These platfor...

Digital Etiquette for Wellbeing: Communicate Better Online

Most of us learned about face-to-face manners growing up, but the majority were likely not taught about digital etiquette, or the unwritten rules that govern how we communicate onl...

‘Backrooms’ Takes You Deeper Inside the Internet’s Most Uncanny Horror Myth

Kane Parsons was just 16 years old when he created a viral YouTube horror series based on a 4chan meme. Now he’s ready to conquer the big screen.

The Kirkification of Our Troubled Times

The culture has transitioned from memeing one man’s death to delighting in the memeing of wars in real time.

Utanmazkzılar: Understanding the Rising Digital Trend

In the fast-moving world of internet culture, new terms and online communities appear almost every day. One such term gaining attention is Utanmazkzılar. While it may sound unusua...

Man, Old Internet Was Something, Huh?

The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Omoggle'?

It's a mog-or-be-mogged world out there, people.

Breakfast Babble: When Did Everything Become Cringe?

SCREEN PEOPLE

This book by an Atlantic staff writer argues that the past decade has transformed, for the worse, the way we think about engagement with each other. The impersonality of the intern...

Readers Write In #960: We in the World Wide Web

By Jay Sunday Edition Part -1 We in the World Wide Web Between the ‘Listen to me’s and the ‘Tell me’s, it’s a cacophony! Content and comments can be noisy on the outside or nice in...

Sexualizing Social Media Users or Netizens

I am returning to my previous comments, reflecting further on my earlier observation that women, particularly married women, can go days without accessing social media due to the r...

Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day

The extremely online journalist and content creator doesn’t believe in tech hygiene and yearns for a world where “inbox infinity” is celebrated.