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Nicholas White


Nicholas White is the founder and editor in chief of the Daily Dot. His work has appeared in Wired, PBS, the Associated Press and elsewhere, and his reporting has been honored for excellence in journalism by the Associated Press.

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How you can help Sandy Hook Elementary School

The Daily Dot has partnered with CrowdTilt to raise money for essential school and office supplies for the teachers and staff of the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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Dot Dot Dot: Deck the halls with a little Internet holiday cheer

How the Internet is celebrating the holidays this year. 

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Dot Dot Dot: How the Internet changed sex

Internet porn has become something we all have in common.

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Dot Dot Dot: When the Internet goes to war

The current conflict in Israel is being fought on three fronts, and two of them are online. 

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How to be a hero in the battle of the sexes

Nicholas White considers the identity politics unfolding online these days. 

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Dot Dot Dot: How the hurricane hit the Internet

How the hurricane hit the Internet (like a streaker in the wind).

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Dot Dot Dot: The evolution of Opinion

Why we’re launching an Opinion section (in short, for the greater good of humankind).

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Dot Dot Dot: The doxing mirror

Online trolls can hide behind pseudonyms—until they’re exposed, anyway—but can you really separate an online identity from your “real life?” 

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Dot Dot Dot: The Internet is stranger than fiction

If what happens in World of Warcraft is real to someone, it’s worth covering.

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Dot Dot Dot: The new narrative of the presidential race

The first presidential debate might have finally changed the nature of online discussions about President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. 

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Dot Dot Dot: Scoring points on the Internet

If all the Web’s a game, how do you decide who wins? 

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Dot Dot Dot: Starting fresh on the Web

The Internet has the power to address important issues of sexism and “thinspiration.” It’s just a matter of rising to the challenge.

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Dot Dot Dot: Facing an Internet crackdown

We need the kind of social institutions that will direct the new flood of speech productively.

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Dot Dot Dot: Crowdsourcing a better democracy

Internet-savvy politicians are showing how the Web can drastically alter the relationship between government and the governed. 

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Dot Dot Dot: The year the Internet went mainstream (again)

In the Daily Dot’s first year, the Web changed in profound and unexpected ways, ascending into pop culture like never before. 

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