Tag: data
How to teach and parent better in the age of big...
Katie Headrick Taylor, University of Washington
At the parent-teacher conference, I sat across the table from my first grader’s teacher in a chair made for...
Your internet data is rotting
Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Many MySpace users were dismayed to discover earlier this year that the social media platform lost 50 million files uploaded...
Congress is considering privacy legislation – be afraid
Jeff Sovern, St. John's University
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called privacy the “right to be let alone.” Perhaps Congress should give states trying to...
Worried about sexual harassment – or false allegations? Our team asked...
Anita Raj, University of California San Diego
Since the launch of #MeToo, there’s been a lot of attention on problems of sexual harassment and assault...
How Uber and other digital platforms could trick us using behavioral...
Abbey Stemler, Indiana University; Joshua E. Perry, Indiana University, and Todd Haugh, Indiana University
Uber’s business model is incredibly simple: It’s a platform that facilitates...
Will Netflix eventually monetize its user data?
Jason Mittell, Middlebury
Even in the wake of a recent mixed earning report and volatile stock prices, Netflix remains the media success story of the...
Many hate crimes never make it into the FBI’s database
Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University
The FBI’s latest numbers showed a 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes in 2017.
But what does this actually say about...
Nearly all sexual harassment at work goes unreported – and those...
Carly McCann, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have brought renewed attention to workplace...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
