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Your internet data is rotting

Staff Writer - May 19, 2019

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...

Economy

Congress is considering privacy legislation – be afraid

Staff Writer - May 16, 2019

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...

Politics

Worried about sexual harassment – or false allegations? Our team asked...

Staff Writer - May 13, 2019

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...

Economy

How Uber and other digital platforms could trick us using behavioral...

Staff Writer - May 10, 2019

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...

Art

Will Netflix eventually monetize its user data?

Staff Writer - April 22, 2019

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...

Politics

Many hate crimes never make it into the FBI’s database

Staff Writer - January 7, 2019

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...

Business

Nearly all sexual harassment at work goes unreported – and those...

Staff Writer - December 16, 2018

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...