best of 2012
off the top of my head, these are the posts i most remember and think about from 2012 in no particular order
most “important” (need a better word)
It’s Trigger Warning Week by Laurie Penny
Twitterland by Malcolm Harris
Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web by Adrian Chen
smartest
Speaking in Tongues by Sarah Nicole Prickett
The Death of the Cyberflâneur by Evgeny Morozov
Quantum Drift by Miranda Trimmier
most correct
The Myth of Cyberspace by PJ Rey
Social Media’s Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships by Zeynep Tufekci
Facebook in the Age of Facebook by Rob Horning
2012 was a cool year because I got to meet everyone except two on this list in person. I also wrote some stuff:
top 5 of my own writing from 2012
The IRL Fetish in The New Inquiry
The Facebook Eye in The Atlantic
Against Ted in The New Inquiry
Pinterest and Feminism at Cyborgology
Speaking in Memes in The New Inquiry
seems pretty obvious from this list that The New Inquiry was a big part of my 2012 - special thanks to all of them, especially Rob Horning, who edited my essays. those three TNI essays ended up with me live on the radio with CBC’s Q program, live on the air on NPR’s The Kojo Namdi Show (broadcast live to DC), and Al Jazeera English television. The IRL Fetish essay was covered widely, even at The New York Times. i hope to see lots more of them in 2013, especially as the conference i run with PJ Rey moves up to their home, NYC, in March. More info on that:
