Jessa Lingel is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania.
jlingel@asc.upenn.edu
This is an essay about technology, power relations and basic dignity. It is about the commercialization of online platforms and the difficulties of retaining individual power and autonomy online. It is about the gentrification of the internet. When I call the internet gentrified, I’m describing shifts in power and control that limit what we can do online. I’m […]
Although in many ways, countercultural identities have always been at the heart of popularizing the internet, it’s the popularity of the internet that has made it difficult for some countercultural communities to endure and thrive. Coming out next month from MIT Press, my new book looks precisely at this problem – how do uncommon communities […]
Yesterday was a surprising, difficult day for a lot of us. For many of us based in the U.S., amidst whatever political feelings we were having, it spurred us to think hard about our own work and research agendas, and how they should shift to face new political realities. So some of us spent the day […]
It’s true that I didn’t start dating Vera with the best of intentions. I was curious, mostly. You know that early phase of a relationship when it seems like a single person could address particular gaps or demands in your life? In Vera’s case, these voids were well defined, the promises well articulated. The question […]