Recent Internet Features

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Friday, December 4 2009

MCA’s Heavy News

By Kirby Fields

This is more about the surprise I felt when an hour after my heart ached for my own mother it ached again in a similar way for someone whom I have never actually met. So I’ve spent probably months listening to the Beastie Boys. So what? This gives me the right? The short answer is “Yes. Yes, it does."

Monday, September 14 2009

Music Scrobbling as a Panopticism of Taste

By Calum Marsh

Among social networking sites, it's only Last.fm, only scrobbling -- which, once activated, operates entirely on its own, as an unconscious background function -- that channels the essence of Foucault's social panopticism.

Thursday, August 13 2009

‘Funny People’ and the Advent of the Social Network Narrative

By Thomas Britt

If the public prefers disposable, computer generated product about man-babies to dramas about human relationships, then Funny People may be plugged directly in to the zeitgeist.

Friday, July 24 2009

Pixelated Brains and New Media

By PopMatters Staff

In Pixelated Brains, a four-part section spanning June and July, we consider: R WE UNABL 2 THNK & COMMUNIC8 N MENINGFL WYZ NE MORE?

Tuesday, July 21 2009

I Saw You: Comics, the Internet, and Everyday Life

By Sara Cole

In this Iconographies feature, I Saw You will be used as a spring-board to understanding how the internet might be examined and made sense of through comics.

Thursday, June 18 2009

The New Games Journalism

By L.B. Jeffries

The most useful moments for New Games Journalists are ones that occur in multiplayer, describing experiences that could never occur during just a general session of play.

Wednesday, March 18 2009

Does Video Game Criticism Need a Pauline Kael?

By L.B. Jeffries

Kael, much like video game critics today, was faced with a massive philosophical shift in her chosen artistic medium that large quantities of critics were against.

Friday, February 27 2009

Beautiful Agony: The New Naked

By Justin Dimos

Erotica website Beautiful Agony continues to revolutionize how both men and women approach sex and intimacy by revealing individual facial expressions of real, vulnerable human beings orgasming.

Sunday, February 1 2009

Max & Jason

By PopMatters Staff

Al 'Gore’s Boys’ and Current TV producers and hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva chat with PopMatters 20 Questions about enthusiasm-inducing people and things.

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