According to The Social Factor: Innovate, Ignite and Win Through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking, Maria Azua states that since the dawn of social media, society has found itself leaving what’s known as the advanced[…]

In “From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality to Games,” Michael Zyda argues that Virtual Reality (VR)  researchers must readjust their focus on game research and development if they wish for their work to remain relevant,[…]

Reporting on the Facebook Papers, internal company files made public by whistleblower and former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen, CBS and CNBC collectively describe the internal concerns regarding Facebook’s responsibility in controlling the dangerous content[…]

In “’I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: Meet the data war whistleblower” the author talks with Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, who goes on record to speak about his role in[…]

In “How to Close the Digital Divide in the U.S.” Bhaskar Chakravorti argues that although the U.S. government is attempting to close the gaps in the country’s digital infrastructure with a $65 billion budget, the[…]

In the TED Talk, “How I’m fighting bias in algorithms,” Joy Buolamwini talks about the prevalence of the “coded gaze” — also known as algorithmic bias — and points out that who, how and why[…]

In “Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment,” the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) argues that technology has introduced a much greater ability to access mental health support through new apps and numbers[…]

In “Google, democracy and the truth about internet search,” Carole Cadwalladr argues that Google’s search engine algorithm is aiding the prevalence of misinformation online and that it’s influencing the way website visitors think. Cadwalladr shows[…]

In “Keeping Together Long Distance Families: Technology as a Social Actor,” independent researcher Madalina Ioescu focuses on families separated by economic migration and argues that children, parents and grandparents feel less separated when using digital[…]

In Robin Dunbar’s TED Talk “Can the internet buy you more friends?” Dunbar questions whether the internet can actually enlarge one’s circle of friends beyond what he calls their “local village.” He argues that the[…]

For my midterm project, I focused on Strava. Strava is an app designed for both casual and serious athletes who want to keep track of their training, while also building or maintaining social connections with[…]

In “Impression Management 2.0: The Relationship of Self-Esteem, Extraversion, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Presentation Within Social Networking Sites,” Stephan Winter and Nicole C. Kramer explore self-presentation on websites, arguing that self-efficacy with regard to impression management is[…]

In “The Benefits of Facebook ‘Friends:’ Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites,” Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield and Cliff Lampe examine the relationship between use of Facebook and the formation[…]

In “Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19,” Judd E. Hollander and Brendan G. Carr argue that telemedicine provides an abundance of benefits to both patients and health professionals, and is increasingly emerging in the medical field[…]

In “Can science-based video games help kids with autism?” Sarah DeWeerdt argues that autistic children are more drawn to technology, and thus video games can serve therapeutic purposes for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. […]

In “Users like you? Theorizing agency in user-generated content,” José van Dijck focuses on the idea of “you” which serves as a metaphor for the millions of anonymous contributors to the web as well as[…]

In “AI-Mediated Communication: Definition, Research Agenda, and Ethical Considerations,” Jeffrey T. Hancock, Mor Naaman, and Karen Levy show that the recent emergence of Artificial Intelligence-Mediated Communication (AI-MC) raises new questions about how technology may shape[…]

In “Digital Practices and Applications in a Covid-19 Culture,” Christina Romero-Ivanova, Michael Shaughnessy, Laura Otto, Emily Taylo and Emma Watson address student and professor reflections on digital learning practices during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly in[…]

In the editorial User experience – a research agenda, Marc Hassenzahl and Noam Tractinsky argue that there needs to be further user experience (UX) research, encouraging scientists and practitioners to engage in empirical UX research[…]

In The Causes and Consequences of COVID-19 Misperceptions: Understanding the Role of News and Social Media, Aengus Bridgman, Peter John Loewen, Derek Ruths, Oleg Zhilin, Eric Merkley, Taylor Owen, and Lisa Teichmann argue that comparatively[…]

In Do women and extroverts perceive interactivity differently than men and introverts? Role of individual differences in responses to HCI vs. CMC interactivity, Yan Huang, S. Shyam Sundar, Zhiyao Ye, and Ariel Celeste Johnson conduct[…]

In Theorizing Interactivity’s Effects, S. Shyam Sundar shows not only that interactivity is an attribute of technology rather than of the media user, but that it has behavioral, attitudinal, and cognitive effects as well. These[…]