Rip offs ranked: A look at social media Stories clones
Twitter’s new Fleets feature has a lot of people on my feed complaining, and very few people uh … fleeting? Posting Instagram Stories except on Twitter? Hardly anyone…
Mouth Dreams is a masterpiece and a nightmare
Neil Cicierega makes music I would have played on Media Are Plural when it was a radio show. His Mouth series of albums (Mouth Sounds, Mouth Silence, Mouth…
Instagram’s algorithm doesn’t know anything about me
Back in the halcyon days when Media Are Plural was a radio show, circa 2013-14, I made some shows about the positive aspects of social media. This was…
Lost media: a look at art lost to time and space
When mediaareplural.ca went offline back in 2018, a year after I had stopped updating it, all the content (sort of) disappeared. It had been indexed on the Wayback…
Trends and fads are different concepts
This article on trends and fads first appeared on the old mediaareplural.ca in June, 2016. Last week I talked about how Pokémon is not a fad, sticking it…
Pokémon wasn’t a fad, parents – here’s why
This article about Pokémon first appeared on the old mediaareplural.ca in June, 2016. When I was seven years old I was obsessed with Pokémon. That remained true for…