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What the latest social media craze says about women, technology and feminist theory.

During the London riots, the mob of so many well-connected cyborgs did what mobs today do: they became augmented, blurring onto digital space mostly via the popular and mostly private Blackberry messaging service.

If faux-vintage photography is rooted in authenticity, then what is more real than war?

The relative lack of obsession of the images in this scandal strikes me as evidence of the weaker regulation of the male body and men’s sex.

How separate are the digital and physical worlds? A debate has ensued on the blog Cyborgology on what it means to live in an ‘augmented reality’.

Obama-as-president has thus far been a Web 1.0 leader instead of embracing the Web 2.0 ethic of users collaboratively and socially creating content.

Let’s move past the reductionist binary and acknowledge that what we are seeing is an augmented revolution, one that utilizes both the physical and digital.

On Jan. 8, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner allegedly shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others resulting in 6 fatalities. This event has drawn attention to a number of new and important roles social media has come to play in our society, including how information is gathered, changed political rhetoric, and how these sites handle the profiles [...]

Just as others lamented about the loss in depth when moving from the physical to the digital word, others are now claiming the loss of depth when moving from email to more instant forms of communication.

The term “cyberbullying” is frequently used to describe hurtful behaviors occurring via communication technologies. But why distinguish “cyber” bullying from other forms of bullying?