Internet Social Sciences

An emerging interdisciplinary field studying social phenomena on and through the internet—how online communities form, how identity is constructed digitally, how power operates in networked spaces. Internet Social Sciences combine sociology, anthropology, communication studies, and data science to understand human behavior in digital environments. It asks: How do social norms emerge online? What is community in the absence of co-presence? How does the internet amplify or mitigate inequality?

"They studied the TikTok community like anthropologists studying a tribe—rituals, language, hierarchies, conflicts. That's Internet Social Sciences: applying the tools of social science to digital worlds. The internet isn't separate from society; it's society transformed. Understanding it requires new methods, new theories, new questions."

by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026

Internet Human Sciences

An interdisciplinary field applying humanities perspectives to internet phenomena—studying digital culture, online identity, virtual ethics, and the human experience of networked life. Internet Human Sciences draw on philosophy, history, literary theory, and cultural studies to ask: What does it mean to be human online? How do digital technologies shape our sense of self, community, and meaning? What stories do we tell about the internet, and what stories does the internet tell about us?

"She analyzed Twitter threads as literature—narrative structure, character development, dramatic arcs. That's Internet Human Sciences: treating digital expression as human expression worthy of humanistic study. The internet isn't just data; it's culture, meaning, story. Understanding it requires the humanities as much as the sciences."

by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026

Internet Cognitive Sciences

An interdisciplinary field studying how the internet affects cognition—attention, memory, reasoning, and decision-making in digital environments. Internet Cognitive Sciences combine psychology, neuroscience, and human-computer interaction to ask: Does the internet change how we think? Is attention fragmenting? Is memory outsourcing to devices changing what we remember? How does online interaction shape social cognition?

"She couldn't remember phone numbers anymore—why remember when the phone remembers? Internet Cognitive Sciences asks: what happens to memory when it's externalized? What happens to attention when it's constantly divided? The internet isn't just a tool; it's an environment, and environments shape cognition."

by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026

Internal Variables

Factors originating within a system or study that influence outcomes and are, in principle, part of what the researcher is studying or should be controlling. In experimental design, internal variables include the treatment itself, participant characteristics, measurement procedures, and all the elements the researcher deliberately manipulates or measures. However, internal variables also include unintended factors: participant expectations (placebo effects), researcher expectations (experimenter bias), measurement error, and all the ways the study itself shapes its own results. Distinguishing intended internal variables from confounding internal variables is the fundamental challenge of research design.

Internal Variables Example: "They thought they were measuring the drug's effect, but the internal variable of participant expectation—they all knew they were getting the real drug—confounded everything. The improvement might have been pure placebo."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

Internet Gang Up

A broader phenomenon encompassing any coordinated or emergent mob attack conducted through internet-mediated means, across platforms, protocols, and spaces. Where "digital gang up" might emphasize the digital nature of the attack, "internet gang up" emphasizes the network itself—the way information travels, mobs form, and coordination happens across the entire internet ecosystem. An internet gang up might start on Twitter, spread to Reddit, generate YouTube videos, leak into Discord servers, spawn blog posts, and result in doxxing, harassment, and real-world consequences. The target experiences not just a platform-specific attack but the full weight of the networked mob, amplified and sustained by the internet's architecture of virality and persistence. Internet gang ups are what happens when the mob discovers you and the network makes escape impossible.

Example: "The controversy followed her across every platform—Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, even her professional email—an Internet Gang Up that demonstrated the network's capacity to coordinate destruction across every digital space she occupied."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Internet Orthodoxy

The established, institutionalized set of beliefs about the internet that dominate digital discourse—the often-unexamined assumptions that the internet is liberating, that it democratizes knowledge, that it connects people, that it's inevitable, that more connectivity is always better, that the current internet (corporate, surveilled, centralized) is simply how the internet is. Internet orthodoxy includes commitments: that access solves problems, that digital natives understand technology, that platforms are neutral, that algorithms are technical rather than political, that the internet's problems are growing pains rather than design features, that alternatives (decentralized, non-commercial, community-owned) are impractical. Like all orthodoxies, it shapes how we understand digital space, but it functions as ideology—making particular internet arrangements seem natural and inevitable, obscuring how the internet could be otherwise, and delegitimizing visions of alternative digital futures. Internet orthodoxy determines what online spaces are "realistic," what digital policies are "forward-thinking," and who counts as "tech-savvy" versus "nostalgic."

Example: "He dismissed concerns about platform surveillance as inevitable—'that's just how the internet works.' Internet orthodoxy had made corporate control feel like the nature of technology rather than a choice."

by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026

International School of Nanshan Shenzhen

International School of Nanshan Shenzhen, also known as "ISNS", if my memories wasn't annexed by important details related to the Summative Assessments. ISNS is infamous for being the greatest psychiatric hospital in Shenzhen, thousands of rich students is incarcerated in a facility that's in possession of the size of a cabin, with limited functions that perfectly describes the school's scarcity in effective architectural designs. To trap the inmates both physically and mentally, the penitentiary adopted a narrow structure which prohibits the prisoners from arbitrarily wandering on the campus; or, if they dare - laying their fingers or buttocks on any recreational facilities that are absolutely not fabricated to entertain nobody; to trap the patients mentally, the school stipulates a schedule with immense assessments and exams, arranged closely to guarantee no students may take refuge in their precious holidays.

The school's teachers hold an unhindered freedom on deciding the fates of their students, especially the High School math department. For instance, the math teachers retain the right to arrange or alter the curriculums for the entire school year. A 9th Grade teacher sewed lectures of abstract algebra and even precalculus features into the curriculum in the first three units. The assessments in the subject was so advanced that it may as well been created to trial Chinese high schoolers.

Student A: I heard the news about few people gettin' stabbed.

Student B: Oh, me too, I reckoned it's really bad. Hope they survive.

Student A: They say the victims irritated the suspect, what an irritation!
Student B: You sound like someone from our school, but anyways, they say the suspect stabbed 'em because he's a student from the International School of Nanshan Shenzhen; they provoked him by uncovering the fact that he scored a 2 on the probability unit SA.

Student A: Gee...

by チェン____ February 9, 2025