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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Viral Memes in a Time of Quarantine , on the site QC Voices 7 months ago
Over the past three weeks I’ve used memes like an optic salve. Sometimes they soothe, inducing laughter, bringing a necessary emotional release. Other times memes deliver a brief sting—the truth bur […]
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, In Search of a Healthy Digital Self, on the site QC Voices 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Have you ever taken a break from social media and thought, this is really good for my mental health? How often do you ask yourself why it feels good to stay away? Whether it’s a year, a month, a week or 24 h […]
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Rhea, thank you for writing this—adding it to my thesis reading list. I haven’t yet read anything that feels so true when it comes to the construction of digital identity that factors in how it can help us find community, but also isolate us from ourselves and community. Thinking about what a radical reimagining of how we exist digitally (and narrate that existence) gives me hope!
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Travel Protection Plan, on the site QC Voices 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Upon discussion with a very kind human working for an airline ticket agency about what we each had for breakfast, I was transferred to a robotic representative. I was told this transfer would provide me with […]
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Rhea Tepp commented on the page, on the site QC Voices 8 months, 3 weeks ago
This poses a lot of great questions! I often think about what you’ve written about, as someone who writes about the significance of dialogues we have on social media. I think about the ways marginalized communities need to be surrounded by people who look and think similarly, as a mode of survival. I also often consider the ways that I can…[Read more]
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Detox the Digital at New York Public Library’s Picture Archive, on the site QC Voices 12 months ago
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
—Jorge Luis Borges, “La Biblioteca de Babel”I was born in the 1980s. I had a pager years before my first cell phone. In highschool I spen […]
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Account at "Nictitation": Social Virtual Room, on the site QC Voices 1 year ago
How often do you reach in your pocket, certain your phone is vibrating, only to realize you fell victim to a “phantom buzz?” What about the inner pull to look at your phone, leading to hours caught up in a […]
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Rhea Tepp commented on the page, on the site QC Voices 1 year ago
How did you hold a mirror up to the inside of my brain? Thank you for sharing your story. If anyone reading is seeking an online resource, I highly recommend checking out The Icarus Project https://theicarusproject.net/
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Rhea Tepp commented on the page, on the site QC Voices 1 year ago
I really appreciate this article and am glad you decided to offer your assessment at the end. I would argue that Trump’s groupies are more volatile than Bernie Bros, but it’s important to consider the similarities of a mob mentality, no matter the party lines.
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Zines Are Tangible Reflections of Personal Revolutions, on the site QC Voices 1 year, 1 month ago
Part 1: Write. Photocopy. Fold. Staple. Disseminate. Repeat.
I first learned about zines in 1999, during the WTO protests in Seattle. A friend and I left high-school early (there was a city-wide curfew at […]
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Rhea Tepp commented on the page, on the site QC Voices 1 year, 6 months ago
I love your writing so much – grateful to share space with you in QC Voices <3
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Rhea Tepp commented on the page, on the site QC Voices 1 year, 6 months ago
Thank you Jason! We miss you at QC Voices and hope you’re having a great semester.
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, The Public Shame of Olivia Jade, on the site QC Voices 1 year, 6 months ago
I spent some time watching Olivia Jade Giannulli’s Vlogs. I watched her spend ten minutes humble-bragging about expensive Christmas gifts. I skipped through her travels to Fiji, which served as a destination […]
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Approximate Wait Time, on the site QC Voices 1 year, 8 months ago
The lemon tree outside my bedroom window bursts with canary yellow jewels. I sit in my room, phone camera in hand, observing energetic exchanges between the citrus blossoms and the hummingbirds. Two birds dart and […]
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Filming the Police: Know Your Rights, on the site QC Voices 1 year, 10 months ago
A few days ago, while on my way to work, I witnessed two NYPD police officers confront a young woman of color at a subway station. I did what I usually do when I see a similar situation; I took out my phone […]
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, LinkNYC Sees You (Even When You Don't Know It), on the site QC Voices 1 year, 11 months ago
If you passed by any of the LinkNYC machines along Vernon Boulevard between 47th and 50th avenues on July 1st, 2018, you would have heard a slowed down version of the Mr. Softie jingle projecting from every […]
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Want Digital Immortality? Meet Bina48, on the site QC Voices 2 years ago
“Immortality is accomplished by creating consciousness in self-replicating machines that can be distributed throughout the cosmos.”—Bina48, social android.
I first learned about Bina48 at a conference I att […]
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Rhea Tepp wrote a new post, Reimagining the Internet, on the site QC Voices 2 years, 1 month ago
When I want to understand the internet, I turn to science fiction. Not for details of artificial intelligence or scientific accuracy, but for the writer’s ability to construct new worlds while exploring complex q […]
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