Tag: Social media
Kids spending too much time staring at screens? Focus on positive...
Meghan Owenz, Penn State
As vaccines become more available and life begins returning to so-called normal, caregivers and educators...
Misinformation-spewing cable companies come under scrutiny
Joshua Braun, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Looking at political violence in the U.S., a New Jersey state legislator sent...
Audio chatrooms like Clubhouse have become the hot new media by...
Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon
Google “What is Clubhouse?” and you’ll find a flurry of articles written in the...
What public school students are allowed to say on social media...
Scott F. Johnson, Concord Law School
After a high school cheerleader in Pennsylvania dropped a series of F-bombs about...
Some kindergartners are more likely to be heavy users of online...
Paul L. Morgan, Penn State
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Specific groups of kindergartners in the U.S. are...
Instagram’s redesign shifts toward shopping – here’s how that can be...
Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan
Recently, when I opened Instagram, I noticed that the usual spot for checking notifications is now a Shop tab. The...
How to fight Holocaust denial in social media – with the...
Adam G. Klein, Pace University
One in four American millennials believe the Holocaust was exaggerated or entirely made up, according to a recent national...
Socialism is a trigger word on social media – but real...
Robert Kozinets, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
The word “socialism” has become a trigger word in U.S. politics, with both positive and negative...