Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Bryan Alexander: “The hypothesis of my haunted cyberculture project is that once we come up with a medium, we create stories describing it as a fearsome thing. These stories occur in fiction, nonfiction, and the slippery boundary in between the two. Today’s case in point: an Alternet story about Twitter and social collapse”

“We haven’t yet seen stories about Twitter in classic cyberfear patterns, like expressing forbidden sexuality, enabling copyright infringement, being used by terrorists, leading to murder and suicide, etc.”

“If Twitter lasts, and/or its imitators grow, we should expect such accounts to arrive presently. We should expect a murderer’s tweets to appear”