5 July 2023
Sigmund Freud thought we had a superego, an unconscious power that criticised and punished us. Does this idea help explain the internet’s excesses, asks Mark Edmundson's intriguing new book
14 September 2022
Over 17 years, YouTube has transformed from a place to share home videos to a cultural juggernaut that helps elect presidents. A new book from Mark Bergen gives unparalleled insights into the platform's rise
7 September 2022
Escape, a thoughtful book by Marie Le Conte, recalls a time when people tended to organise themselves into small communities around blogs and other online hangouts. Should we go back?
22 January 2020
An exhibition and new book trace the battle, fought via infographics and social media platforms, to make black communities in the US visible through technology
12 March 2019
The West thinks China’s internet is all about firewalls and censorship, but as a new book shows, the battle for control is full of dubious motives
20 February 2019
Meet the science YouTubers Simon Clark, Inés Dawson, Simone Giertz and more who make videos spanning rubbish robots, Star Wars planets and hijacking a Bieber hit
14 January 2019
How has our visual culture adapted to the digital age? All too well, according to this show at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Is the internet losing its ability to surprise?
18 December 2018
We all know about the dark web’s illegal markets and shady deals. But from playing better chess to protecting political freedom, it's full of surprises
31 October 2018
Rule-breaking technology is challenging the evidence base on which all functioning societies depend. Two books explore the problem and how to fight back
1 August 2018
In New Dark Age, James Bridle expends no little shoe leather mapping the current walls of our eerie futuristic home, in the real and the virtual realm
