Archives: Reddit

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Anti-clickbait: These online communities are helping fight against the “clickbait economy”

Scientists are working to resurrect woolly mammoths!   You might remember headlines from a while ago proclaiming this Jurassic Park-esque possibility. It had something to do with retrieving frozen DNA. Or maybe something about using that gene-editing technique that everyone keeps talking about? CRISPY, or CRISPER, or whatever it’s called?... More

Monday, November 20, 2017

Hate, Harassment, and Communities of Bigots: The Ugly Side of Reddit

  Reddit has an ugly side, and I’m not talking about its pro-Donald Trump subreddit or a community that appears to be organized around sharing pictures of dragons mating with cars (I think it’s best to not provide a link to either of those). It’s difficult to compare reddit to other websites, since it’s... More

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Cat pictures, Billy Mays song remixes, and challenging the mainstream media: Reddit and the Syrian Crisis

Depending on how familiar you are with reddit, you might think of it as a place where people post memes and cat pictures. Or maybe your perception of the site is shaped by some of its stranger communities – for every subforum (or ‘subreddit’ as they’re called on the site) that’s dedicated to sharing... More

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