Nation Topics - Internet and New Media | The Nation

Are virtual-world video games just another plaything or a new frontier with vast potential to upend social norms?

Online activists are shining much-needed light on superdelegates, revealing who they are and how they'll vote--and asking why we need them.

Big Think seeks to smarten up the Internet by getting up close and intellectual with the most creative thinkers alive.

When a young Moroccan computer engineer created a fake Facebook profile
for the Crown Prince of Morocco, the result was jail, torture and a very
uncertain future.

His web-driven, self-starting activism could be the key to getting his message out--and bringing young voters to the polls on Super Tuesday.

Striking members of the Writers Guild of America are bringing the labor movement something it hasn't had for a long time: an audience.

As the old concept of privacy fades and a new one arises online, what is being lost?

Stop corporate robots from taking over the Web. Freespeech.org explains how relentless marketing and data-mining puts your privacy in peril.

Putting blogs, cellphones and text messages to work, Pakistani students around the world are rallying against Musharraf's martial law.

As the strike continues, Writers Guild members have turned the Internet into an organizing tool.