Critical Eye: The damage of “science by media release”
The publication of a media release about a scientific study when the study itself is…
Does social media harm the academic performance of students?
To try and arrive at a definitive answer, researchers have conducted a meta-analysis of nearly…
Social Media Use and Perceived Social Isolation Among Young Adults in the U.S.
Is the recent rise in social media use associated with alleviated perceived social isolation, or,…
Mapping the conspiracy theory networks of mass shooting events
When a recent study mapped mass shooting conspiracy talk, it found an emerging alternative online…
Editorial: Do lobby groups and political parties stage fake front group campaigns?
A newspaper article has accused an anti-Safe Schools advocate of staging a fake front group…
Is the use of social network sites in the workplace really a negative?
A recent paper asks if the negative assumptions about social network site use at work…
How cyber troops are influencing what you think and know
A new working paper from the University of Oxford finds that "cyber troops" are a…
Change hack 4: Helping people move up the social media adoption curve [Change hacks series]
This is part 4 of a series of articles on ‘change hacks’ from expert change…
Online social integration is associated with reduced mortality risk [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
A recent study referenced 12 million anonymised Facebook profiles against California public health records.
Analysing the attention economy
The effects of the attention economy in three related online contexts. Are we missing the…