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In the background of www.la, a site offering registration of the top-level domain .la, is a panoramic snapshot of Los Angeles. It hits every note of the city’s postcard-caliber iconography: a sequence of palm trees, a russet coastal sunset, the jewel-lit monoliths of the downtown skyline: “.LA is the domain that says ‘local to LA’,” […]

I always get nervous when I wake up and see that reddit, “the front page of the internet,” is in the news again. But a few days ago, there it was. On the night of the mass shooting in Orlando, redditors gathered on the r/news subreddit discovered long chains of comments being deleted almost immediately […]

Proponents of crowdsourced news call the Arab Spring breathing proof that citizen journalism is both powerful and functional. The democratic liberalization of the web, they argue, has democratically liberalized the states (and people) that now have access to it. Composed of mostly locals, the “citizen journalists” of the Arab Spring used sites like WordPress and […]