Tag Archives: Virginia Heffernan

The Facebook Says: Culture & Technology

2012/07/19 Written by Facebook Says

SUBMERGED WITHIN THE ACOUSTIC TONES OF YOUR DIAL-UP INTERNET, 14 July – On Thursday I asked a few Facebook Friends a question about Culture. Here are the responses so far. Thank you so much to everyone who’s participated. In a March talk at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, columnist Virginia Heffernan opined, “Every [...]

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Virginia Heffernan

2012/07/13 Written by People

CAMBRIDGE, MA, 27 March – Harvard English Literature PhD, former New York Times columnist, and current Yahoo! News correspondent Virginia Heffernan returned to her alma matter today to address a group at the Nieman Journalism Lab on the topic of The Internet, digital culture, and her upcoming book, Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the [...]

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Girls Around Me

2012/04/04 Written by Augmented Reality

4 April – The meteoric rise of iPhone App Girls Around Me to, well, deletion… has been the buzz of the blogosphere this week. But have many well meaning bloggers gotten the analysis of this techno-cultural issue completely wrong? Many posts have decried the invasion of privacy, even though the app only mashed up two [...]

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