For topics involving Korean culture, society, and K-Pop, I go to Ask a Korean. Funnily enough, given the title, the blogger spends a lot of time railing against essentializing all Koreans. Nevertheless, he has a lot of great posts and helps give a lot of insight into this country which I’ve temporarily called home. Here’s [...]
Lately I’ve been getting a little creeped out by the amount of oversharing people do these days. Primarily Facebook and Twitter, because these are the primary social networks I use, but its definitely spilled out into other areas of mass-consumption: reality shows, tell-alls, insta-fame sex-tapes, etc. Now this is an odd and maybe even hypocritical [...]
Between my parents, I never imagined that it would be my mother who would first make the generational jump and join Facebook. This is the woman so utterly defeated by email that I didn’t think she’d recover. Last Christmas, I bought her a shiny new (well, new to her) iMac and tried to train her [...]
Carrie Brownstein, of Sleater-Kinney and NPR music guru fame, posted a thing today about comments. Specifically, about the slew of nasty, awful comments that proliferate on sites like Youtube and what the proliferation of comments like these say, if anything, about us today. I’ve seen enough of these comments to just kind of mentally filter [...]
