“Twitter” Articles

Wordle feels like something so weird, wonderful, and pure that it shouldn’t exist on the internet in the Year of Our Lord 2022.

If Twitter and Facebook and Reddit and TikTok and whatever else is out there have anything in common, it’s obsession. And that’s what Moby Dick is all about.

Steak-umm has dramatically subverted our expectations of advertisers’ behavior, winsomely reminding us of our interconnections and shared humanity in an environment that thrives only by desensitizing us to that reality.

Memeing the classics can be a way to plant seeds of interest, sparks that make seemingly dull, intimidating, or difficult pieces of literature come alive with possibility.

In this ounce of Persuasion fast chat, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson assess the IHOP / IHOB’s failed online communication to a previous conversation discuss the need for better online engagement.

In this episode of Persuasion, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson talk about being mocked on Twitter. They also consider the components we embrace for living our best life and what those components say about our values, our dreams, and our vision of the good life.

What if the mundane areas of your life are actually not quite so mundane?

Drew Dixon and Tyler Burns host returning guest Luke T. Harrington to talk how to navigate an outrage culture.

Rather than framing our offense as a moral stance or an end in itself, we need to learn to frame it as an opportunity.

Christ and Pop Culture writer Luke T. Harrington says farewell to LOL Interwebz.

How are you different from an automaton like Microsoft’s Tay, fellow brain owner?

One series of ads—and, yes, the Twitter response to it—gave me a bit of hope. I’m talking, of course, about the “Super Bowl Babies” ad series.

Social networking can show us additional blips of each others’ stories that aid us in the work of knowing and being known.

It hurts everywhere. In Beirut, in Paris, in Syria and in Missouri, USA, in all the many, many places I forgot to name.

Our hunger for human flourishing outstrips our patience for the work necessary to achieve it.

We now take it for granted that people who have said things sufficiently offensive deserve to be hounded out of their jobs, their homes, and even their families by an online mob.