Scientists from Germany have studied whether teenagers who frequent Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites perform worse academically and concluded that there is no such connection.
Social Sciences
Feb 20, 2018
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It's easy to argue that the internet as it exists now is not "neutral", with some companies and websites creating tech empires and online monopolies. But the decision of US telecoms watchdog, the Federal Communications Commission, ...
Telecom
Dec 20, 2017
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Climate change is a topic that is debated, doubted and covered by news outlets across the world. Luis Hestres, in the Department of Communication at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), is researching the evolution ...
Environment
Nov 20, 2017
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Young people who share social cause videos may actually be motivated to volunteer in the future, contrary to the popular image of them as "slacktivists."
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2017
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Scratching is more than an itch—when it is sparked by stress, it appears to reduce aggression from others and lessen the chance of conflict.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2017
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Until the 1980s, biodiversity conservation in the tropics focused on the "fines and fences" approach: creating protected areas from which local people were forcibly excluded. More recently, conservationists have embraced ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2017
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At Facebook, mere "sharing" is getting old. Finding deeper meaning in online communities is the next big thing.
Internet
Jun 22, 2017
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2
Heavy-handed approaches to issues around social media and digital communication such as 'sexting', may be damaging to children's emotional development, according to new research on childhood in the digital age, by academics ...
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2017
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Social media is society's favourite platform for sharing, seeking and consuming information – what role is there for the scientific community in this environment?
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2017
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Reader preferences for liberal or conservative political books also attract them to different types of science books, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Chicago and Yale and Cornell universities. ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2017
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