“Let's remind ourselves that offering an opportunity for somebody to register to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles has been required by federal law for decades now. We know it as motor voter. So whether it's motor voter and people registering on paper or online voter registration, we have the protocols in place to keep people who are not eligible to register to vote from registering, whether it's for citizenship status, whether it's for age or any other reason.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensReasonAgeLawOpportunityPaperVoteDecadesDepartmentOnlineVotersOfferingVehicleCitizenshipMotorRegisterProtocolRegistrationVoter RegistrationMotor Vehicles Author:Audie Cornish
“Online marketing rarely is able to appeal to more than two senses - yet offline often (if utilized the right way) represents the option of multi sensory appeals.” IfsWayTwoAbleMarketingSensesAppealsOnlineRight WaySensoryOnline MarketingOffline Author:Martin Lindstrom
“There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's the greater possibility we'll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.” PeopleWayDoneWholeUsedGreaterDangerPossibilityScreensWhole LifeChecksStaringOnlineMailPetitions Author:Bill McKibben
“There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.” FactsCertainResponsibilityOpinionTvsNewsOnlineTv News Author:Barbara Boxer
“Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsPersonsArtStillsDifferentCareersStudentsWasteArt IsTechniqueMediumsEducatedOnlineWasting TimeUnfortunateCaribbeanLooking Down Author:St. Lucia
“One of the people from my online team said he didn't notice - almost immediately after the [Donald] Trump victory within the following days, he noticed that there was a severe spike in hateful messages that were coming towards me.” PeopleSaidTeamTrumpVictoryMessagesFollowingOnlineSevereHateful Author:Trevor Noah
“No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it; getting that first version out there.” FirstsIdeasLife IsDifferencesVersionsMaking A DifferenceOnlineGreat Idea Author:Alexis Ohanian
“I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.” BodyVoiceProtestOnlineActivistEngagingHesitantEducating Others Author:Vivek Shraya
“I don't feel qualified to comment on whether or not the internet has damaged collaboration and creativity. That is not my experience... my experience is that I have had access to meeting people online that I might otherwise not have met, gone on to meet them in real life and collaborated on fun projects.” PeopleFeelsRealMightFunCreativityGoneInternetMetsProjectsMeetingsAccessReal LifeOnlineCommentCollaborationQualified Author:Horace Panter
“I wanted to move on. I wanted to do acting. The next thing I did after [MADtv] was a good hybrid of that. I did this show with Bob Odenkirk and Derek Waters (creator of Comedy Central's "Drunk History") and it was a little homegrown thing that we shot and then we sold it to HBO. We made a pilot and HBO didn't pick it up, but then we made all these webisodes. This was before streaming stuff online made any sense. (The episodes are available on YouTube). Nobody even knew how to watch things on the internet.” LittlesMadeShowsWantedMovingNextStuffWaterActingWatchesComedyInternetPicksShotsCreatorAvailableDrunkOnlinePilotsBobEpisodesYoutubeHybridStreamingHboHomegrown Author:Simon Helberg
“Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.” ThreeChangedTvsRadioOnlineExplosionsCablesTalk Radio Author:William Kristol
“I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.” PeopleThinkingReadingMillionsFiveAirTvsFineCoupleThousandStandardsHundredEngagedOnlinePartisans Author:William Kristol
“What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.” ThinkingRunningSocialCommunityEmotionLonelinessComputerMessagesEmptyDatingPhonesPostsReliefOur SocietyOnlineIgnoredSocial NetworkAppsInbox Author:Alexander Weinstein
“I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that a mother is telling her children about how she met their father online. The majority of memories the mother has all have to do with really funny links he sent her, a music download that she loved, etc. - and because of these superficial details she fell in love with the father. Reading it today, it's hardly a dystopian story; it's simply a realistic story about how people actually meet.” PeopleChildrenStoriesTodayMotherReadingFatherMemoriesWrittenMinesMetsJokesMajorityDetailsDecadesEtcOnlineLinksRealisticSuperficialDystopianDownloads Author:Alexander Weinstein
“Parents are already telling their kids about falling in love online - there's nothing "frightening" or "dystopian" about this. So, the critique doesn't work, because we already consider our dystopic state of affairs normal.” StatesKidsFallParentNormalFalling In LoveAffairOnlineFrighteningDystopianCritique Author:Alexander Weinstein
“I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.” ThinkingWantWritingStoriesRememberNextOur FamilyOnlineWrestlingJournalSmall ThingsFaithfulness Author:Ann Voskamp
“The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree.” KnowsWritingTryingLittlesSaidTwoBookCertainThreeFeltStuffWeekWillingDegreesOnlineWowBowlsEssaysSuper Bowl Author:Bruce Springsteen
“It's really important that we stop body shaming people online and on social media. The rude comments under pictures, comparing women in "who looks better" posts - all that does is force us to judge each other. It only sets us back and women, now more than ever, need to empower each other.” PeopleNeedsLooksDoeImportantBodyForceSocialMediaJudgingSocial MediaPostsCompareEmpoweringOnlineCommentRude Author:Ashley Graham
“Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.” CommunityConscienceClubsLocalsOnlineHobbiesLocal Community Author:Amity Shlaes
“I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.” KnowsTryingSeemsPleasurePerspectiveArgumentArguingNovelistsOnlineGrumpy Author:Zadie Smith
“We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange. In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.” IfsWorldNeedsShouldCountryTodayRememberLeftBehindsShareInformationNotionDataDigitalBarriersOnlineIsolatedOther CountriesLeft BehindDotsCultural BarriersInformation Is PowerInformation Sharing Author:Alan Bersin
“Since our online libraries are so extensive, we think we can make all the right decisions about our personal health and well-being by pushing buttons. It's not intuitive anymore. That's the internet. Before the net, we would have gone to the community or our families to see what we should do. We often feel more isolated on our own little islands because of it.” ThinkingFeelsShouldWellsLittlesCommunityDecisionGoneInternetLibraryWell BeingOur FamilyIslandsOnlinePushingIsolatedButtonsIntuitiveRight DecisionPersonal Health Author:Nelly Furtado
“No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.” PeopleRecordsSellsBoxesOnlineTouring Author:Frank Stallone
“I think we need to fight against Trumpism in the courts, we need to fight at the ballot box and online, and we need to do peaceful protesting. We need to use every lever at our disposal to make sure that the president doesn't hurt our country, our values, and our people.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCountryUseValuesFightingPresidentHurtCourtBoxesOur CountryPeacefulOnlineBallotsLevers Author:Tim Kaine
“I'm a soul maker. I write songs. I'm making cartoon shows. I'm planning on putting stuff out myself on my own, on a TV station online. I'm not limiting myself. I'm doing it all at once.” WritingSoulShowsSongStuffMy OwnTvsPlanningOnlineStationsMakersCartoonCartoon Shows Author:Greg Cipes
“Don't live online, live in real time. I'm just astonished how many people live online.” PeopleRealOnline Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.” FormStorytellingOnlineComing Back Author:Margaret Atwood
“Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.” BookOnlineRecipes Author:Boy George
“The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets - this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.” PeopleGivingBelieveCommunityMillionsTechnologyDoubtStreetsInformationChangedLike YouInternetEssentialsFindingsNewsEvolveDiscussionVisibleInsecurityNeighborhoodOnlineCrucialHopelessnessGiving InSpeaking Out Author:Nate Powell
“There isn't one way of doing anything. I'm not saying everywhere online should be anonymous, nor do I think everywhere should use read-ID. I just want options! And for people to understand how valuable anonymity can be, and why it's worth protecting.” PeopleThinkingWayWantShouldUseValuableOne WayOnlineAnonymity Author:Christopher Poole
“I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayAbilityTalkingSeeingHonestMediaChangedPaperApproachNewsPlentyAlternativesBeing HonestRealmsOnlineStoppingPapersItemsPublishColumnsBloggingColumnistsPeople TalkingTalking Back Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel
“I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they are alive. We see home movies. We have videotapes now and e-mails. When it's going to get interesting is in massively multiplayer online games where you have avatars (online personas). You could actually create an avatar that's semi-autonomous. It could do things for you while you get off the game to run the rest of your life.” PeopleHomeRunningGamesInterestingTechnologyAliveImpactPhotographDigitalOnlineMailRest Of Your LifePersonaAutonomousDigital Technology Author:Paul Saffo
“I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for your art, but I have been talking to a lot of younger, aspiring cartoonists who very quickly get discouraged if they aren't getting a lot of attention immediately. This can also be aggravated by artists who appear to be really quickly Tumblr-famous, and get lots of notes on their work.” IfsWayHas BeensArtArtistAttentionTalkingInternetNotesComicInstantOnlineDiscouragedGratificationCartoonistInstant GratificationAggravated Author:Liz Prince
“When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.” KnowsWantLooksPersonsSeemsExpressionTrumpUniqueDrawsRevelationsOnlineInstructionAngleCartoonSlidesManualsCaricaturesFacialFacial ExpressionDesktopFolders Author:Barry Blitt
“When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.” KnowsNeedsFeelsTryingWellsIdeasNextLostSpaceKnowingLike YouInternetEndureChecksEmptinessOnlineHelpfulHanging OutCracksNot KnowingNew IdeasEmailLost You Author:Miranda July
“We are all so immersed in our own technology bubbles that we're ignoring so many important things. We're all online arguing over nuance and nonsense, and everybody's so incensed and upset about things that ultimately mean nothing while we are destroying our environment. While we're racing towards Armageddon, we're all online arguing about what Beyonce said at some award.” MeanSaidImportantTechnologyEnvironmentImportant ThingsArguingUpsetNonsenseOnlineAwardsRacingDestroyingBubblesOur EnvironmentNuanceArmageddonBeyonce Author:Rick Remender
“There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as simple magazine images has dissolved - we are seeing new and innovative ways to share, create, and enjoy ideas. I am challenged to learn and explore paths of finding new photographers, stylists, and vision-makers online or through direct contact, connecting with ideas and creativity in new ways, and making images with different outlets. Sometimes more unbridled avenues and unconventional ways lead to things I wouldn't have thought of yet.” WorldWayIdeasDifferentSometimesTodayEnjoySimpleInterestingVisionCreativityPathSeeingShareFashionFindingsDirectPhotographerExcitedTraditionalContactMagazinesOnlineMakersNew WaysConnectingInnovativeOutletsAvenuesWorld TodayStylistUnconventionalIdeas And CreativityFashion World Author:Guinevere Van Seenus
“I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g.” WritingLiteratureHeavyGenreOnlineMiltonBorges Author:Lee Klein
“Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits posted online for all to see are something absolutely other, uniquely themselves compared to canonical short stories, for example, and so it'd probably be best to call it something other than "online lit" since I honestly think very little of it can compare to so-called "literature."” ThinkingLittlesStoriesLiteratureBitsFictionExampleHumorousHonestlyCompareGenreOnlineShort StoryConsideringLit Author:Lee Klein
“Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.” WritingImportantWholeInvestmentOnlineComplementary Author:Lee Klein
“There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.” WritingArtOnlineTrashGood ArtArt And MusicOffline Author:Lee Klein
“There are fewer and fewer philosophies that everyone subscribes to. We don't seem to have as many beliefs in common as we used to. Also, we interact much more online. We have all these gadgets to help us manage different aspects of our lives.” DifferentPhilosophyHelpingSeemsUsedBeliefCommonOur LivesAspectManageOnlineFewerGadgets Author:Elaine Equi
“One of the things I'm most proud of that we've done here at WFMU - after various failed attempts - is to create a really healthy online community that feeds into the physical real-world community. It's spawned meet-ups in other cities. People even get married - they meet online from these chats that accompany every single program and are a really big part of what we do.” PeopleDoneCommunityProudHealthyMarriedProgramVariousOnline Author:Ken Freedman
“Abortion. Feminism. Online harassment. Social justice. Women's "no"s are constantly doubted and eroded in our culture. Saying "no" and sticking to it - and, especially, doing that where other women can see it - is a political statement.” PoliticalCultureJusticeFeminismSocial JusticeAbortionOnlineDoubtedHarassment Author:Lindy West
“I've been going to San Diego's Comic-Con every year since 2007 or 2008. The first time I went it was an overwhelming experience because I wasn't expecting all the people; I wasn't even expecting all the joy. I came from a background where, when I was about eighteen or nineteen, I found comic-book fandom. But it was the fandom of online communities. And within those communities there was a tremendous amount of excitement and joy, but I'd never been around people in such a large group setting where this joy was pouring out of them. It was a revelation.” PeopleJoyCommunityFirst TimeExcitementRevelationsOnlineOverwhelmingExpectingEighteen Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“I'm not in contact really with people from Chicago Area Skinheads movement and couldn't say who they now support politically, but I can tell you through my research online in which I've been doing interventions with people who are part of hate groups, that I've discovered essentially thousands and thousands of pro-Trump neo-Nazi accounts.” PeopleHateSupportOnline Author:Christian Picciolini
“While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.” BookRememberMemoriesOnline Author:Paul Lynch
“We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.” PeopleWorldMindSometimesTermInterestSupportEconomicTerribleBehaviorLaborOnlineBubblesGoogle Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“Fake news is a product of the internet that is not transparent. Fake news can spread online because as users we have no idea where any of the content we see comes from.” InternetSpreadFakeOnlineUsers Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“We're in a time when bashing is the norm - especially on social media, where everybody's online and no one interacts face-to-face. There's a quote I found yesterday - it was hilarious: "People need to chill, like literally, we're floating in space on a giant rock we can't leave. Look at the stars or something instead of being awful." You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.” PeopleThinkingSocial MediaAliensOnlineNormChill Author:Chantelle Brown-Young