social-media

For years, parents across the country have been calling on Congress to do something about social media’s harmful effects on children. And typically, when something does happen, it follows a familiar pattern.  The billionaire tech CEOs are summoned to Congress. The grieving parents of children who have self-harmed bring old photos of their children, some […]

TikTok videos glamorizing illicit vaping highlight challenges in public health communication, as youth engage more with social media than educational resources.

How we accidentally recreated old FB Background We started off with a simple idea for a product; we wanted to re-use the chat interface for everything except chat. It was supposed to be just for photos but expandable later. The idea was that most people already share their photos with others on WhatsApp or some other messaging service, which technically also ’tags’ the people who were there. So, …

How to use social media as an artist without burning out: share your real voice, post with honest consistency, and turn visibility into a real art career.

Social media giants Meta and YouTube have been found liable by a California jury for negligence that caused harm to a young woman’s mental health. The landmark decision is among the first of many similar cases, and could be the beginning of a trend that may force major changes in how social platforms work. The companies have been ordered to pay $3 million in compensatory damages, which are meant …

People who lose their jobs often post about it before they file paperwork. They vent, ask connections for leads, or just announce they’re unemployed. These posts, scattered across millions of social media users, turn out to predict official unemployment claims up to two weeks before government data arrives. Researchers from New York University, the World Bank, and the University of Oxford built a…

This episode explores Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose its Harmful Secrets , a new book by Wall Street Journal technology reporter Jeff Horwitz . His relentless coverage of Meta, including first reporting on the documents brought forward by whistleblower Frances Haugen in the fall of 2021, has been pivotal in shedding light on the complex interplay between social media platfor…

Disciplines Communication Technology and New Media | Social Media Publication Date 2022 Document Type Article DOI 10.25778/6tqj-8z41 Abstract With the emergence of new technology, communication is now easier than ever. With popular dating apps such as the infamous social interactive platform, Tinder, forming romantic relationships online now offers individuals a new way to personalize their datin…

DMRC’s Dr Tim Graham has been awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award for his project Combatting Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Social Media. Project summary: Online disinformation is a global problem that threatens national security and is harmful to society. However, current methods are not suited to detect... The post DMRC’s Dr Tim Graham awarded an ARC DECRA 2022 appeared f…

[This is a joint post with Grant Storey, a Princeton undergraduate who is working with me on a tool to help users understand Facebook’s targeted advertising.] Facebook announced two days ago that it would make its ads indistinguishable from regular posts, and hence impossible to block. But within hours, the developers of Adblock Plus released an […] The post Can Facebook really make ads unblockab…

Kate Powell has shared her Art projects on social media platforms since she was fifteen years old. She has over 12,000 fans on Facebook and 34,000 followers on tumblr. The post Art student gains huge social media following, launches career at high school appeared first on STUDENT ART GUIDE .