Social media’s growing prominence in our lives alters how we live and interact with one another. The more time we spend on social media, the more we grow addicted to it, which has negative consequences[…]

The article explains how Christopher Wylie created the idea for Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that was a pivotal factor in digital operations of Donald Trump’s election campaign and the UK’s EU membership referendum[…]

In an empirical study of personality recognition, social presence and social response in human-robot interaction, researchers acknowledge that robots are assimilating into our daily lives as designed to socially interact with humans, in caretaker or[…]

In the TED Talk, Mignon Clyburn speaks about how the Internet is “the most enabling, powerful tool of our times.” She expresses how her grandmother’s inability to achieve an education past grade 6 was reflected[…]

Buskens (2017) reiterates the story of Kiss Brian Abraham tells of how Zambian women used Facebook to discuss matters related to sex, which caused backlash from Zambian culture due to its challenge of traditional identity[…]

The study outlined here by Pielot and Rello points out the tradeoff of operating without device notifications. There are positive and negative consequences of being without notification messages: although participants in the condition of not[…]

In the TEDx Talk, college scholar Amber Quinney speaks to her journey becoming social media free, which made her crave the feeling of freedom from judgement that made the break from social media expand to[…]

The Netflix “Explained” episode displayed the power of evolving technology to revamp the way we perceive what counts as a sport in today’s society. In 2017, as the episode mentions at the beginning, 60 million[…]

The Amanda Todd story highlights the danger of the Internet and lack of privacy for young users, which poses risks of harassment and stalking that can be detrimental. To me, the term “cyber-bullying” is an[…]

Pinterest is a social media platform used to save, share, and categorize areas of personal interests. The app allows users to create pin boards where they save, or “pin,” images and ideas that they find[…]

Marthur and Reichling (2016) discuss how robotics are integrating into our daily lives as we interact with technological devices and supports, but humans tend to dislike robots if their human-likeness is inaccurate and unbelievable (The[…]

In Sherry Turkle’s TED Talk, Turkle reminisces on her first memories of a developing Internet world of “virtual communities,” where the Internet was still just beginning to evolve in 1996, and seemed like an exciting,[…]

Krämer and Winter discuss their study of the relationship between self-reported personality traits offline and social media self-presentation online, exploring the hypothesis that impression management motivates user engagement with social media networking. Since “self-esteem” is[…]

The power of social media is that it has the ability to shed light on untold sides of a story, and better yet, supply mass audiences with visual evidence. Media is used towards the journalistic[…]

Spiel et. al (2019) reveal in their article that Human-Computer Interaction has developed over recent years to best serve the needs of autistic children, but most importantly, their agency. Researchers aimed to see how technology[…]

The article, “Are You Going To Delete Me? Latent Profiles of Post-Relationship Breakup Social Media Use and Emotional Distress,” by McDaniel, et. al (2021) analyzes four profiles of post-relationship breakup social media behaviors, which consisted[…]

The article discusses how types of media messaging affect emotional responses in users. The outlined study compared error messages, status notifications, and input requests in either text or speech message presentation to look for differences[…]

In this case study of Instagram stories, researchers studied the extent to which Instagram story features allowed for sociability of its users and how this social interaction is used to elevate user experience on the[…]

The article shows how live internet text affects our vernacular language. It permeates speech because we adopt certain shortcut phrases into our everyday language, such as “OMG,” instead of “oh my gosh”; however, Harbeck argues[…]

The article’s research demonstrates how gender and extraversion affect how interactivity is perceived due to differentiating psychological perspectives when engaging with media. Overall, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) was recognized by individuals as more interactive than Human-Computer[…]

The use of social media allows for faster communication channels that grant access to more people than ever before, including people who share medical conditions or have medical experience, so it’s no wonder that individuals[…]