Disputing the under-16 social media ban

A populist policy promises online safety at the cost of young people’s mobility

Jun 30 • Yunindita Prasidya

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May 2026

Inside a digital detox club

Esther spent months embedding herself inside London's viral digital detox club. I asked her what she discovered

May 28 • Yunindita Prasidya

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The offline premium

Can you pay your way into an offline world?

May 16 • Yunindita Prasidya

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April 2026

Gambling with algorithms

What are we really betting on when we post ourselves online?

Apr 23 • Yunindita Prasidya

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A belated one year anniversary

Reintroducing digital field notes

Apr 7 • Yunindita Prasidya

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March 2026

What if we doomscroll because we are distracting ourselves from a life that feels unsettling?

Modern life presents us with periods of change we don’t know what to do with. We spend it on more screen time because we lack alternatives

Mar 27 • Yunindita Prasidya

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I doomscroll to rest, but it makes me tired

The conundrum that is doomscrolling

Mar 21 • Yunindita Prasidya

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Bedbound, in pain, doomscrolling life away

Doomscrolling is known as a dopamine booster, but what if it’s a painkiller instead?

Mar 13 • Yunindita Prasidya

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Why do I doomscroll?

I’ve been asking people about their doomscrolling habits, trying to get a sense of why we doomscroll

Mar 7 • Yunindita Prasidya

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January 2026

An Algorithmic Becoming

From music playlists to credit scores, our lives have become deeply entangled with algorithmic technologies. How do we begin to understand this…

Jan 17 • Yunindita Prasidya

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December 2025

How does a writer find her voice?

On homecoming, journalism as an industry, and being a writer in an LLM world

Dec 28, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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November 2025

A case against numbers game

The numbers game is outdated—we shouldn't be advising people to play the numbers game

Nov 8, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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