Internet

A loose federation of hyperlocal Instagram accounts are both satirizing and codifying the habits of a homogenous consumer class.

OpenAI’s snafu over its “Her”-like voice assistant might be funny if it didn’t portend a larger crisis in the integrity of digital information.

Two new books by art-world authors explore online shareability and come to different conclusions about what creators stand to gain.

Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.

In the months leading up to the announcement of Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis, online sleuths created a vivid fictional world explaining her absence. When conspiracy steps in, where does that leave reality?

After the Princess’s cancer diagnosis, some who had pushed conspiracy theories about her absence seemed chastened. Others were less contrite.

The freedom to use social media is a First Amendment right, even if it’s one we should all avail ourselves of less often.

A doctored image of the Princess of Wales and her children has become the most captivating episode of her entire public career.

The Princess of Wales is at home recovering from surgery. But that’s not what the Internet thinks.

To a degree that we have yet to fully grasp, what rules our age is the ideology of the Internet.

The author and former enfant terrible on life after death, breaking the rules, and forging a self through fiction.

Enrique Pedráza-Botero and Faye Tsakas’s short documentary follows a group of friends in suburban Texas who make their living in the world of “findom” on OnlyFans.

The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.

Novelty coinages are good at grabbing attention in the digital economy. What do they really have to say?

Millions of people subscribed to her vision of an idyllic rural existence. Who was she, and why did she disappear?

Laura Les and Dylan Brady, the duo behind the hyperpop band 100 gecs, are children of the Internet, which has offered them a seemingly divisionless array of musical influences.

The new A.I. systems pretend to converse with us. But who’s written the script?

He cultivated an online community dedicated to surrendering control. He’s the artist; they’re his art.

The new platform aims to be a decentralized alternative to Twitter. The vibe there is mostly like that of a Portland coffee shop.

The satirical film “Sick of Myself” shows the warping effects of social media by way of a character who gives herself a hideous rash.