Fadeke Adegbuyi

Apr 13, 2022

Blind Ambition

Big tech’s highest-paid workers get real on an anonymous professional social network

Dec 3, 2020

LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

How the professional platform makes networking weird

Feb 9, 2021

Creeping as a Service (CraaS)

How Spoonbill reveals our obsession with identity

Apr 21, 2021

Introducing: Cybernaut

A newsletter about internet culture by Fadeke Adegbuyi

May 14, 2021

Oh, to be young and online!

Cyberbits Edition #1, a weekly curated newsletter of internet finds.

May 24, 2021

Caught in the Study Web

Exploring Gen Z’s Ambitious and Anxiety-Fuelled Pursuit of Straight A’s Across YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter

May 28, 2021

A Certain Aesthetic, a Certain Facade

Cyberbits #3: Digging in to the creator side of Study Web

Jun 4, 2021

Before Facebook, There Was eCircles

Cyberbits #4: The rise and fall of social media networks

Jun 11, 2021

TikTok as a Portal Into Different Worlds

Cyberbits #5: A housemaid in Kuwait, incarcerated inmates, and other unlikely creators

Jun 16, 2021

How One Student Built a Study Discord Community With 150K Members in 15 Months

Nadir Matti, the Founder of Study Together, chats gamification, partnering with platforms, and the ins-and-outs of community building

Jun 18, 2021

r/NoSurf: A Subreddit for the Very Offline

Cyberbits #6: The quest to use the internet less

Jun 25, 2021

The Secrets of GetRichQuickTok

Cyberbits #7: The so-called steps to six-figure success

Jul 9, 2021

Is Internet Receipt Culture Our Undoing?

Cyberbits #8: How demands for evidence have become an impossible quest for truth

Jul 14, 2021

The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships

The disappearing divide between “followers” and “friends”

Jul 16, 2021

Are Writers Part of the Parasocial Economy?

Cyberbits #9: How online writing is converging with internet influencing

Jul 23, 2021

The Plastic World of RealSelf

Cyberbits #10: “The TripAdvisor of Boob Jobs”

Jul 30, 2021

Genius Verified: Where Singers Spill Song Secrets

Cyberbits #11: Deciphering the hidden meaning behind popular lyrics

Aug 6, 2021

The Hard Work of Being a Fan Account

Cyberbits #12: How online fan accounts for Addison Rae, Ana de Armas, and Doja Cat keep followers in the know

Aug 31, 2021

The Anti-Fan Phenomenon

Inside the online communities where people love to hate

Oct 6, 2021

A Primer on the Parasocial Economy

How online platforms monetize one-sided bonds between creators and fans

Dec 8, 2021

Our Pseudonymous Selves

The Past, Present, and Future of Online Identity

Feb 16, 2022

The Rise of YouTube Drama Channels

How drama, tea, and commentary channels keep tabs on internet influencers

May 31, 2022

The Internet Encyclopedia of Memes

An Interview with Don Caldwell, the Editor-in-Chief of Know Your Meme

Jun 13, 2022

The Screaming Fangirls Who Forged the Internet

Book Review—Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany