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
In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like...
Christopher Palma, Penn State
If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter...
