The Dictionary of Digital Oppression v0.2 launched on July 5, 2026. This incremental version ships with full topic pages for all forty-eight terms: a brief definition, the mechanisms of action, documented cases, and an annotated bibliography for every entry. The index has been rebuilt to match. It took longer than I wanted… but it’s live now.
A dictionary of a moving target can’t pretend to be done. The systems these entries describe change under our very feet, even as we read and consider the terms. Policies are rewritten, models evolve, lawsuits land, studies publish. The entries in the Dictionary of Digital Oppression are snapshots of theses observed and in progress. Some even place bets and make predictions from within the context and systems the entries explore. The moral panic entry, for example, diagnoses a panic while it’s still ongoing and says on the page what evidence would prove it wrong. Other entries name the studies that haven’t yet been run in the hopes that someone will do so.
If you catch an error (of which there are surely many), let me know and we’ll revise.
AI is used in the production of this dictionary and will continue to be, openly. So are many hours of human research, argument, and revision. Collaboration between humans and AI is at the core of this site, and in many ways it is also the subject.
What comes next: new terms as the machinery evolves. Surely. But there’s no pressure to add terms frivolously. In fact one might argue that some cutting and consolidation of existing terms is warranted. What feels more important is the continued investment in the topics as they are. More research, reading, development. More tone and language refinement so the writing has a pulse. More examples that make theory something tangible.
The dictionary exists because you can’t resist what you can’t see. You can’t defend against what you don’t recognize.
The dictionary exists because the things that shape you have names.
Learn them.