Infinite Scroll
Kyle Chayka on the people and platforms that are shaping digital culture.
Who Wins and Who Loses When We Share a Meme
Two new books by art-world authors explore online shareability and come to different conclusions about what creators stand to gain.
A TikTok Ban Won’t Fix Social Media
You can take the platform away from American users, but it is far too late to contain the habits that it has unleashed.
The Revenge of the Home Page
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
The Dada Era of Internet Memes
How the viral TikToks of a Chinese glycine factory elucidate our increasingly chaotic digital environment.
The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher
Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.
The Dumbphone Boom Is Real
A burgeoning cottage industry caters to beleaguered smartphone users desperate to escape their screens.
Trump’s Social-Media Potemkin Village
After an I.P.O. last week, Truth Social is confronting the gaping incongruity between its valuation and the paltry reality of its product.
“Argylle” Is the I.P. Ouroboros That Hollywood Hath Wrought
Intentionally or not, the new spy movie suggests the extreme convolutions that a production must undergo to justify its existence as an original story.
America’s Paranoid Taylor Swift Super Bowl MAGA Fever Dream
The fate of everything from the N.F.L. to American democracy has been sucked up in the Swiftularity.
