The fuel of social media is the outrage cycle. A public or private figure is revealed to have committed a social transgression. Virtual mobs seek to destroy the life of this person. The accused receives death threats until the attention of the
Confession: I completely forgot about the Super Bowl this year. I certainly wouldn’t call myself a football buff — baseball is my true sports love — but I usually at least keep track of when the Big Game is on so as
Two years ago, Sister Susan Francois, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, had a few handsful of followers on Twitter, and no trolls. But since national secular media publications began picking up on the story that Sister Francois,
Social media can be a place of madness. “Cesspool” is one of the words that is not infrequently used to describe places like Twitter and Facebook. It can be a place that encourages our worst instincts and makes that overwhelmed feeling worse.
At the beginning of June, Google announced that it had declined to renew a contract with a Pentagon drone program, which lapses next March. The contract allowed the Department of Defense to use Google’s artificial intelligence tools to study unmanned aerial drone
Many of us, myself included, make a concerted effort to silence the noise during Lent. Although it’s a good idea to go through each and every day with less media, Lent provides a good opportunity to re-evaluate how much time we’re spending
When I first discovered Catholic websites — a few years after converting — it was like a fire was ignited underneath me. It didn’t take me long after that to jump in with both hands on my keyboard. I started blogging and,
Some call them the iGeneration. Others prefer Generation Z, Pluralists or post-Millennials. Sociologists and marketing experts have yet to reach a consensus on what to call the children of Generation X — today’s teens, tweens and tots. But they have picked a