With a "virtual campaign season" underway due to the COVID-19 pandemic, social media platforms will be a particularly important way for candidates to build a following and connect with voters. New research on the popularity ...
Political science
Aug 12, 2020
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The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, and in mid-June this year, he started trending on Twitter. Perhaps it wasn't so strange that Beethoven was popping up on social media platforms, but ...
Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2020
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A new study led by researchers at McGill University finds that people who get their news from social media are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19. Those that consume more traditional news media have fewer misperceptions ...
Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2020
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A majority of college students of color show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after watching social media videos of unarmed Black men being killed by police, a Rutgers study finds.
Social Sciences
Jul 16, 2020
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Social media platforms can play an important role for teaching students already hard-wired into the tools and for advancing teacher professional development, says a Michigan State University researcher who wrote the first ...
Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2020
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Pangolins are one of the most illegally trafficked animals on the planet and are suspected to be linked to the current coronavirus pandemic.
Ecology
Jun 4, 2020
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A recent analysis of discourse on Facebook highlights how social media and an individual's sense of identity can be used to dehumanize entire groups of people.
Social Sciences
May 20, 2020
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Hany Farid is quite familiar with lies on the Internet. A professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and at the School of Information, he has been advising Facebook on how to spot fake news, images and videos ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2020
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has taken the world by storm and disrupted so many aspects of life in the United States and around the world. School districts across America are now providing K-12 education online, and an ...
Education
Mar 27, 2020
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You've been harassed online and the social platform has removed the offending post, so that's it, right? End of story.
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2020
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