To Amazon and its defenders, this feels unfair. Amazon is just doing what stores have always done — just better. This question about whether technology
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Wonder Woman’s Secret Past
Wonder Woman’s origin story comes straight out of feminist utopian fiction. In the nineteenth century, suffragists, following the work of anthropologists, believed that something like
How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine | The Nation
Mechanical Turk is the innovation behind “crowdworking,” the low-wage virtual labor phenomenon that has reinvented piecework for the digital age. Created by Amazon in 2005,
The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic
…Last year I wrote about some very interesting research being done by Paul J. Heald at the University of Illinois, based on software that crawled
This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World | How to be an Anthropologist
I find the Facebook meme distressing, not because of the Belo Monte Dan Project, but because the author and all of the people who share
Tax Incentives to Companies Bleeding Towns Dry, With Few Results
A lot of the abatements & other supports to bring in business to townships & cities centers on one main process: job creation. Yet nobody
