Archive - Noise Level

Theo Von, Tradwives, and Mormons

Good reads and content to start your week.

Feb 18 •

Barstool Sports: A Defense of Mindless Entertainment

Not everything needs to be categorized as "healthy" or "harmful." Some media can just be entertaining.

Feb 5 •

January 2025

The Attention Economy

Good reads and content to start your week.

Jan 27 •

The Anti-System Mentality of Social Media

What the UHC shooting reactions tell us about the dominant worldview espoused on the internet.

Jan 13 •

December 2024

What the Internet is Like for Young Men

Just because masculinity is a sensitive topic doesn't mean we should cede the online space to the worst of us.

Dec 9, 2024 •

November 2024

The Impenetrable Vibes of Endless Bummers

How social media's cultural impact is formed by the powerful and abstract emotions it emits, not the information it hosts.

Nov 25, 2024 •

October 2024

Choose Your Own Reality

How the fragmentation and democratization of our media ecosystem has erased any sense of a collective reality.

Oct 28, 2024 •

The Media is Dead, Long Live the Media

No more cable news, the podcast bros now rule the court of public opinion.

Oct 15, 2024 •

September 2024

You Cannot Click This Link

Foreign influence in our media is a problem, but what about our own influence over the platforms that govern what we see?

Sep 30, 2024 •

Algorithms, Influencers, and Propaganda

This week’s issue is a small collection of good reads that offer interesting insights into the digital information ecosystem.

Sep 23, 2024 •

You Are Probably Consuming Russian Propaganda

And regardless of your political identity, Putin's information warfare is working on you.

Sep 16, 2024 •

Elon Musk: Selling Division and Sowing Confusion

Exploring what Musk has done with Twitter/X, and how his partisan turn affects our information ecosystem.

Sep 9, 2024 •

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