"Any moment of life becomes a kind of popularity bargaining chip, to show that either you spend money, or you have cool friends... you have to make it look like…
"I decided to represent their faces literally sucked into their phones, which makes them beings that are suddenly deprived of their identity, sucked into social networks and into a universe…
Last week I had a second filming session with photographer Antoine Geiger. We shot B-roll (supplemental footage that will be intercut with his interview) at the majestic École nationale supérieure…
Have you ever heard about the Hawthorne Effect? It's a theory by social scientists, that posits that people change their behavior when they know they are being observed. I first…
"When you see how many likes you get after you post something online, how many likes you get starts to teach you what you should post in the first place."
I never thought I’d say this, but here we go: I agree with Kanye West. At least about one issue. In late September, the controversial rapper tweeted: “we should be…
"I noticed that I was obsessed with how many likes I was getting on a particular post or how many notifications are waiting for me. And I started to wonder…
"The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible, just as food engineers have become expert in creating 'hyperpalatable' foods by manipulating levels of…
The most fascinating articles and videos I've come across this month, while doing research for The Realists: 1. New York Times: "The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is…