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Zan McQuade


Zan McQuade is a writer, editor, translator, photographer, and baseball enthusiast living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the editor of The Cincinnati Anthology and writes essays for Belt Mag. You can email her at [email protected]

The Internet is a 12-year-old boy

Would you pretend to blow up your son for the clicks?

On Oct 16, 2015 by Zan McQuade

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Your selfie might kill you

Is the perfect Facebook post really worth dying for?

On Oct 9, 2015 by Zan McQuade

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Your opinion doesn’t matter

It’s not just about whether or not you have a voice—it’s how you use it.

On Sep 22, 2015 by Zan McQuade

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Drivers, don’t let Google take the wheel

Why are we willing to put so much faith in technology?

On Aug 1, 2014 by Zan McQuade

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By eliminating discomfort, is the Internet killing our ability to wonder?

We are so used to knowing that it has become distinctly uncomfortable not to know the answer to something. 

On May 2, 2014 by Zan McQuade

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For my father, Spike Jonze’s future can’t come soon enough

While some might see the attachment to technology in Her as a prison, to me it was liberating. 

On Feb 7, 2014 by Zan McQuade

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How we can make the Internet better in 2014

To make my own experience a source of joy and enlightenment, I’ve laid some very general ground rules for myself.

On Jan 1, 2014 by Zan McQuade

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Open up your Internet and let me in

We need to be active in our selective Internet curation, keeping a check on ourselves so that our circles don't continue to shrink.

On Nov 26, 2013 by Zan McQuade

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The comfort of pages: Why a Kindle will never be perfect

The world is continuously making the move towards an entirely digital life easier by allowing it to take up more of our lives.

On Nov 19, 2013 by Zan McQuade

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We binge, we consume, we mainline … then we do it again

Are we in love, or are we just addicts, consuming without thinking about what it is we're consuming, what we're watching, or hearing, or obsessing over?

On Nov 1, 2013 by Zan McQuade

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Grappling with mortality in the Facebook era

We'll all live on as digital ghosts. In a nitty-gritty sense it sounds awful, but in the long term, I think that it sounds a bit wonderful.

On Oct 29, 2013 by Zan McQuade

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Is Instagram ruining the art of photography?

In the world of traditional arts, it’s those who aren’t doing what everyone else is doing that receive the highest praise. Online, that's not the case. 

On Oct 22, 2013 by Zan McQuade

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