Viral

Issue Two • Jan 16, 2021

With the pandemic rippling through communities and media permeating digital networks, Viral interrogates the intricate, dynamic, and unexpected connections that technology makes possible.

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Disruption Will Not Save Us

Digital Culture

Too many public officials buy the Valley’s marketing and mythology at face value.

Tracing Our (Mis)steps: What Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps Reveal About Competing Values

Digital Culture

Why aren’t more people using COVID-19 apps, and why does it matter?

“So Much Cooking” — and Digital Reading

Literature

My definition of reading has long since moved to encapsulate more than print-only paradigms.

How Covid-19 Can Help Us Build Better Scientific Communities

Science

Immediate publicity for Covid-19 science has become imperative.

Portraits of the Corporate Bay Area: A Review of Randall Mann’s “Proprietary”

Literature

Proprietary shuttles us into San Francisco, the so-called “technical mouth / of the bay.”

Reanimating the Digital Zombie

Digital CultureFilm

Warm Bodies is not alone in using the zombie genre to critique our dependence on technology.

How Building in Public is Fueling a New Class of Content Creation

Digital CultureSocial Media

Launch House is a way of tapping into a new class of founder-influencers.

Let There Be Light: Radar in the Second World War

history

Without radar, the outcome of the war could have been radically different.

The Office Online

Digital CultureSocial Media

Social media platforms are effectively bringing the worst parts of the office online.

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