Itâs 2026 and if youâre feeling overwhelmed, youâre not alone. Over the past decade, the structure of social media has changed completely.… Read More
Tara Kelton does a deep dive into Job Job Job Sahur, the AI-slop character born from TikTok comments telling Italian brainrot creators to “get a job”… Read More
Marios Moros states that vaguepostingâthe deliberately unclear content people have started complaining about onlineâisn’t always about going viral. In this essay he reframes it as a pushback against overly polished content, meant to include some people and exclude others on purpose.… Read More
Every day, when Livia Giannotti opens her laptop, she gets interrupted. Before she can even reach for her phone while it loads, there it is: her daily Windows wallpaper… Read More
In this interactive essay, Livi Wilmore takes a satirical deep dive into our need for mindless soothing respite from information overload and the tensions we feel between wanting to be informed and wanting to rest. … Read More
This glossary, connected to our year theme, maps the infrastructure of how meaning moves online through the language of now. … Read More
Your feed is designed to be just as addictive as candy. To celebrate our upcoming symposium The New Orality, we’re putting together free candy goodie bags. Order your candy here,Read More
With our year theme What Was I Looking At Again?, we want to explore the dizzying, attention-scattering effects of algorithmically driven online experiences. Through this open call, we aim to amplify: We welcomeRead More
Publication Preserving Practices – The Archive and the Audience: https://etherport.org/publications/workshop/Preserving_Practices_2/ The workshop pad: https://etherport.org/w/workshop::Preserving_Practices_2::Avery_Dame-Griff_Lecture.md Login to etherport via: https://etherport.org/manage/ Password: PreservingPractices2025
Based on our experience organising hybrid events and livestreams, as well as insights gathered through experimentation and audience feedback, we have identified ten practical lessons for creating engaging and inclusiveRead More
Program 12:15 PM â Board the bus at NDSM plein 90 in Amsterdam North12:45 PM â Departure and introduction by The Hmm + en route to Agriport in the Wieringenmeerpolder12:50Read More
What do current gender expression trends show us about internet culture today?… Read More
Socrates Stamatatos uses slowness as a subversive response to the elitism and exclusion embedded in accelerationist thought.… Read More
With this essay in the format of a quiz, Senka MilutinoviÄ explores how gender is mediated online and how we as users can resist and subvert where the algorithmic gaze leads our expression of it.… Read More
In this essay, writer Mel Ghidini explores masculinity and the links between Italian brainrot, fascism, concrete poetry, and Futurism from a transmasc and queer perspective. … Read More
In this inaugural episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian and Sjef van Beers from The Hmm, are joined by Sam Cummins, of Nymphet Alumni, to discuss the girlboss.… Read More
The Hmm is een platform voor internetcultuur. We onderzoeken en vieren wat mensen online doen, en kijken kritisch naar hoe dit beĂŻnvloed wordt door de technologie die we gebruiken. WeRead More
In this episode Salome Berdzenishvili, from the Institute of Network Cultures, and Sjef van Beers, from The Hmm, talk to Dr. DaniĂ«l de Zeeuw, from the University of Amsterdam, about how terms originally associated with incel and femcel communities seem to have reached the mainstream.… Read More
In the third episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian from The Hmm and researcher Mita Medri, are joined by writer and cultural commentator Ana Sumbo, to discuss the online phenomenon of looksmaxxing.… Read More
In this episode, Maja Mikulska from The Hmm and Anielek Niemyjski from the Institute of Network Cultures are joined by Maya B. Kronic – co-author of Cute Accelerationism – to discuss all things Sock.… Read More
