Tag: Social media
‘Influencer’ is now a popular career choice for young people –...
Nina Willment, University of York
A 2019 poll found that children would rather be YouTubers than astronauts. It made...
Move over unicorn lattes, there’s a new Instagram trend in town:...
Matthew Philp, Toronto Metropolitan University; Ethan Pancer, Saint Mary’s University, and Jenna Jacobson, Toronto Metropolitan University
The past decade...
Tumblr’s enduring appeal reveals the potency of the web’s cultural memory
Jeanna Sybert, University of Pennsylvania
When tech billionaire Elon Musk made a deal to acquire Twitter in April 2022,...
How many bots are on Twitter? The question is difficult to...
Kai-Cheng Yang, Indiana University and Filippo Menczer, Indiana University
Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes...
Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could make its misinformation problems worse
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, acquired Twitter in...
What Elon Musk’s US$3 billion Twitter deal means for him –...
Hamza Mudassir, Cambridge Judge Business School
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is now Twitter’s largest shareholder after acquiring...
Regulating content won’t make the internet safer – we have to...
Julia Hörnle, Queen Mary University of London
An upheaval of the law governing what can be published online is...
Ukraine’s Twitter account is a national version of real-time trauma processing
Jessica Maddox, University of Alabama
TikToks of cats in cardboard tanks. Flirty comments on Instagram accounts dedicated to Vladmir...
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Mind the gender gap: why women must still fight for equality...
By Hazel Hall, Edinburgh Napier University
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