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This is everything bad that will happen to me in 2016
The best kind of predictions.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Find here all of the New Statesman’s comment and analysis about social media and the digital age.
The best kind of predictions.
ByChildren's rights are being breached in the race for content.
ByNew Statesman staffers are apparently harbouring secret interests in alligators, DNA, and infiltrating the monarchy.
ByWhen Facebook told us our friends in Paris were safe, it didn't take long for the questions to begin: What…
ByDavid Cameron is using the Paris attacks as an excuse to rush through state surveillance legislation.
ByIf you aren’t personally affected by the attacks in Paris, then putting a filter on your profile picture can look…
ByModel Essena O’Neill has rebranded her Instagram account with "honest" captions, saying the platform is “not real life”. We asked Instagrammers…
By"Hello angel how are you doing over there?"
ByConceptual artist Mark Farid believes our online privacy is the only right we have left – and that’s why governments and…
ByYour friends on social media may scoff, but sharing your experience of raising a child is a feminist, and fundamentally…
ByFacebook wants to be a news source, so it's made two trillion old posts searchable.
ByIn England, lit fests thrive, as Auberon Waugh once put it, because writers hate writing and readers hate reading.
By10 billion views, 40 million subscribers and 15 minutes of video per day – how an unknown 25-year-old Swede conquered the…
ByMark Zuckerberg didn't like it, it used to be called the “awesome button”, and FriendFeed got there first.
ByTo be a woman in the public eye these days, or actually anyone who can operate a Twitter account, means…
BySources at the company say Twitter may get rid of the one thing that makes it unique: its 140-character limit. Longform tweets,…
ByNick Clegg has warned that “the clock is now ticking” for “the end of the United Kingdom” and that the…
ByOn Tuesday afternoon, a story began to break across American and European outlets that a 17 year-old Dutch girl named…
By“They kept coming up on my Instagram Explore page,” Elena, a 17-year-old high school student from Ohio, tells me. “I used…
ByThe three men at the centre of the first social media phenomenon of the millenium tell the story of how…
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