Despite prominent companies’ recent claims of effort to diversify the world of technology, the most dominant forces in the world of technology have remained disproportionately white and male compared to demographic data in the U.S.[…]

In From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality to Games, Michael Zyda argues that the role of virtual reality in video games is increasing, and researchers should realign their focus to game research and development to[…]

In the first Associated Press article addressing the Facebook papers, Amid the Capital Riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection, Alan Suderman and Joshua Goodman show that Facebook missed critical signs of the planning of the[…]

In The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation, Lance Bennett argues that social media and communication technology have created a shift from the identity politics of the mid-twentieth century[…]

In the TedTalk “Why I Fight to Close the Digital Divide?,” Mignon Clyburn argues that a Digital Civil Rights Bill is necessary to ensure broadband internet access for all Americans in order to close the[…]

In Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows, Shannon Bond shows that just a dozen people are responsible for the majority of misleading and untruthful information about COVID-19 vaccines[…]

A report by The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment, shows how the increased accessibility of mobile devices has changed mental health treatment by creating new ways[…]

In Unpacking “Privacy” for a Networked World, Leysia Palen and Paul Dourish argue that privacy is a dynamic (changing) process similar to its definition by social psychologist Irwin Altman even before modern technology was created.[…]

In Keeping Together Long Distance Families: Technology as a Social Actor, Mădălina Ionescu shows how technology has allowed family members who have been separated due to economic migration or other reasons the ability to stay[…]

In the TEDxObserver video, “Can the internet buy you more friends?” Robin Dunbar shows that social media platforms such as Facebook have not fulfilled their promises of enlarging the social world. When Facebook was founded,[…]

In an article for Business Insider, Kristine Solomon (2018) argued that a great indicator of company success is when a company name becomes a verb. “Let’s Zoom,” is a phrase heard around the world, especially[…]

TIME Magazine’s 25 Most Influential People on the Internet shows the list of the 25 people that had the greatest impact on social media in 2019. The list included musicians Lil Nas X, BTS, Ariana[…]

Director Jeff Orlowski used The Social Dilemma (2020) to argue that technology, and particularly social media, is catastrophically altering human behavior.  The documentary features many ex-employees of large technology companies such as Facebook, Google, Instagram,[…]

In the TedTalk “Why we have an emotional connection to robots,” Kate Darling argues that human biology hardwires us to project intent and life onto anything moving, thereby increasing our emotional attachment to robots.   After[…]

In Interactive Multimedia-Based E-Learning: A Study of Effectiveness, Dongsong Zhang argues that students in an interactive multimedia-based e-learning environment can achieve higher test scores and report higher levels of satisfaction than those in a traditional[…]

In Users like you? Theorizing Agency in user generated content, José van Dijck shows the impact of user participation on the creation and consumption of media.  José van Dijck argues that with the invention of[…]

In How Steve Jobs’ Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution, Walter Isaacson shows how Jobs’ meticulous pursuit of the simple and sleek elevated the world of technology design out of its dark, industrial phase.[…]

In Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication, Sara Kiesler, Jane Siegal and Timothy W. McGuire argue that CMC will have social and psychological consequences on society.   The authors show the impact of CMC on group[…]

In Do women and extroverts perceive interactivity differently than men and introverts? Role of individual differences in response to GCI vs. CMC interactivity, Yan Huang, Shyam Sundar, Zhiyao Ye and Arial Celeste Johnson show that[…]

Hsien-Cheng Lin and Chun-Ming Chang conducted a web-based survey on Taiwanese Facebook users to research the exchange of health information on social media. In What motivates health information exchange in social media? The roles of[…]

In “The Medium is the Message”, Marshall McLuhan argues that the personal and social consequences of mediums outweigh the effects of messages themselves. In simple terms, McLuhan argues that the way that information is presented[…]