Tag: Social media
Since Boston bombing, terrorists are using new social media to inspire...
Mia Bloom, Georgia State University
Five years ago, a deadly attack during the Boston Marathon made America’s nightmare come true: the radicalized boy next door.
The...
Why not nationalize Facebook?
Blayne Haggart, Brock University
The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal is fast emerging as a watershed for our increasingly digitized society. For the first time, how to...
The ideal female body type is getting even harder to attain
Frances Bozsik, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Brooke L. Bennett, University of Hawaii
Day after day, we’re bombarded with so many media messages that rarely...
‘Big Tech’ isn’t one big monopoly – it’s 5 companies all...
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
Public concern about Facebook’s power in society – and in politics – has skyrocketed in the wake of revelations that...
Don’t quit Facebook, but don’t trust it, either
Denise Anthony, Dartmouth College and Luke Stark, Dartmouth College
Is it time to give up on social media? Many people are thinking about that in...
The transformation of the Super Bowl ad experience
Mark Bartholomew, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
In an era of increasing media fragmentation, you could describe the Super Bowl as...
What might explain the unhappiness epidemic?
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
We’d all like to be a little happier.
The problem is that much of what determines happiness is outside...
What can be done about our modern-day Frankensteins?
What can be done about our modern-day Frankensteins?
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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...
