Tag: Social media
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...
Political cartoonists are out of touch – it’s time to make...
Jennifer Grygiel, Syracuse University
The New York Times came under fire after a political cartoon appeared in print on April 25, 2019. In it, a...
How Twitter and other social media can draw the US into...
Eleonora Mattiacci, Amherst College
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised to resign by the end of the month. That announcement came after thousands of Algerians...
How social media is helping Big Tobacco hook a new generation...
Robert Kozinets, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Big Tobacco is increasingly using social media to find new ways to hook...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
