What makes a movement go viral? How Instagram facilitated the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests
A USC study of Instagram shows that a picture and a video are worth more than just a thousand words. They can fuel a human rights movement.
A USC study of Instagram shows that a picture and a video are worth more than just a thousand words. They can fuel a human rights movement.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2022
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Young women in China, living in a rapidly changing society with more personal independence, disposable income and exposure to Western media than ever before, are also altering their views of female beauty.
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2018
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Tucked in a shabby alley of Shibuya, Japan's Silicon Valley, is a startup that's done the almost impossible: win funding from the country's notoriously conservative banks.
Business
Oct 22, 2015
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Fashion magazines come pre-loaded with scratch-and-sniff panels for perfume and aftershave, but what about advertisements for foods like chocolate chip cookies and fresh-baked bread? According to a new study in the Journal ...
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2014
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(Phys.org) -- Women who excel in male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields are often unjustly stereotyped as unfeminine.
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2012
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New research reveals why people read fitness and fashion magazines featuring photos of impossibly thin or muscular models -- models whose appearance highlight the readers' own flaws.
Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2011
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Women's fashion magazines are chock full of ads, some featuring bizarre and grotesque images. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, these ads are effective at grabbing consumers' attention.
Other
Apr 19, 2010
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A Canadian model has won a landmark case in a New York court after Google was forced to disclose the online identity of a blogger who anonymously posted derogatory comments about the Vogue covergirl.
Internet
Aug 19, 2009
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As the Doctor in Sociology of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country Laura Bilbao-Gómez admits, it was a bus shelter that prompted her to do her thesis on the image of the woman's body in advertising and its interaction ...
Social Sciences
Jul 4, 2014
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