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On Manovich
September 15, 2015McKenzie Wark
18th-century political caricature of a woman labeled "Democracy" wearing a blindfold labeled "stupidity" being pushed by a laughing male crowd toward the president’s chair, stepping on several eggs in the way on the ground, with labels such as "Civil Service Reform,” “Economy,” and “Tariff Reform.”
The Internet
Is Social Media Destroying Democracy—Or Giving It to Us Good and Hard?
October 28, 2025Dan Williams
Media
Could Turkey Just Be OK Again?
October 10, 2019Ergin Bulut
Feature
We Make the Media
December 18, 2018Ethan Zuckerman
Theory & Practice
Where Next for Media Theory?
April 9, 2014McKenzie Wark
Feature
The Social Network of Stuff
August 1, 2018Kenneth Tay
Science & Technology
A Geology of Media
February 27, 2017McKenzie Wark
Media
Populist Digital Media?
October 28, 2019Majid KhosraviNik
Feature
The Election of Donald Trump and the Great Disruption in the News and Social Media
June 5, 2018Pablo J. Boczkowski , Zizi Papacharissi
Theory & Practice
On Media Monstration and the Politics of Small Things
March 14, 2014Daniel Dayan
Uncategorized
Limiting Democracy: The American Media’s World View, and Ours
November 7, 2013Glenn Greenwald
Reviews
Solidarity, and the Rise and Fall of the Public Sphere
April 18, 2017Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

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