Tag: Social media
Local news outlets can fill the media trust gap – but...
Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon
With the polarization of America’s media and politics reaching a fever pitch, many news consumers – “worn out by a...
People are increasingly interrupted at work, but it’s not all bad
Elana Feldman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
An email pops up on your screen. It’s a client sharing a project update. A Slack message appears. It’s...
Too many people think satirical news is real
R. Kelly Garrett, The Ohio State University; Robert Bond, The Ohio State University, and Shannon Poulsen, The Ohio State University
In July, the website Snopes...
How much is your data worth to tech companies? Lawmakers want...
Samuel Lengen, University of Virginia
New proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies...
Why it matters that more athletes are talking about their mental...
John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa taking questions after...
‘I still get tweets to go back in the kitchen’ –...
Michael Serazio, Boston College
The story of the 2019 U.S. women’s national soccer team is not yet written, but its opening chapter – a 13-0...
6 ways to protect your mental health from social media’s dangers
Jelena Kecmanovic, Georgetown University
More than one-third of American adults view social media as harmful to their mental health, according to a new survey from...
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...