I've long been interested in how technology mediates desire and the way that our phones, an extension of ourselves, foster intimate interactions that feel so personal and deep, despite being relayed through a machine. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
In theory, the maturation of the Internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
When I visited my family in Virginia, I tracked down my seventh-grade best friend and sat in TGI Fridays near a mall for hours,… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them.… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
