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How Facebook – the Wal-Mart of the internet – dismantled online subcultures

  • Written by Jessa Lingel, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
imageIn the mid-1990s, body modification enthusiasts – a long-ostracized subculture – created an online community that incorporated blogs, dating and wikis.philippe leroyer/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Before the internet, people interested in body modification – not just tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, but those drawn to more unusual...

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