In “Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Expert Opinion,” Vincent Müller and Nick Bostrom explain concerns around high-level machine learning, including the risks, real and perceived, that humanity faces as a result of[…]

Politico has an entire section on their website for coverage related to The Facebook Papers, including twelve articles produced over one week from October 25th to November 2nd. The first few reports delve into the[…]

In “The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation,” W. Lance Bennett proposes a framework for understanding the large-scale collective action that, typically, is coordinated through social media. He argues[…]

In “Social Distancing and School Closures: Documenting Disparity in Internet Access among School Children,” Ananya Sen and Catherine Tucker argue that school closures resultant from the covid-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted poorer, non-white children, who have[…]

In “Next steps in health & medicine — where can technology take us?” physician Daniel Kraft discusses the modern healthcare system and the emphasis on “sick care”, as opposed to “health care”, which focuses on[…]

In “Facebook went offline this week. Experts say we should log out, too,” CNN reporter Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman discusses Facebook’s brief outage and the psychological effects of social media on digital habits and our ability to[…]

In “Navigating a social world with robot partners: A quantitative cartography of the Uncanny Valley”, Mather and Reichling argue that there is a hypothetical uncanny valley (UV) in which imperfect human-likeness evokes feelings of dislike[…]

In “Connected, but alone?”, Dr. Turkle, a renowned psychologist, argues that technology allows us to connect more easily with one another, but that it takes away from the authentic conversation that leads to meaningful relationships.[…]

GroupMe: Building Better Groups Max Fern, Lehigh University   Abstract   This study investigates GroupMe’s existing features, potential alternatives, and ways the communication technology can improve. Three Lehigh undergraduate students were interviewed independently and then[…]

In “Black Mirror: Nosedive”, the show manufactures a world where social media is so pervasive that people’s account scores become part of their identities. In this alternate reality, individuals are beholden to impress others and[…]

In The Social Network, the producers discuss the formulation of Facebook through short vignettes and legal testimony from two lawsuits against Mark Zuckerberg by the Winklevoss twins and Eduardo Saverin for their respective roles in[…]

In Netflix’s Esports: Explained, the creators argue that esports are not only sports but that they have certain characteristics, which have allowed them to rise rapidly in popularity relative to traditional sports over the last[…]

In Organizing collective action: Does information and communication technology matter?, Cardoso, Boudreau, and Carvalho argue that the use of information communication technologies empowers and constrains the abilities of collective action organizers and that their success is dependent[…]

In Are You Going to Delete Me? Latent Profiles of Post-Relationship Breakup Social Media Use and Emotional Distress, McDaniel, Drouin, Dibble, Galovan, and Merritt argue that people’s post-breakup behavior on social media is correlated directly with[…]

In Affective responses to system messages in human-computer-interaction: Effects of modality and message type, professors Pfister, Wollstädter, and Peter argue that affective responses vary based on the type of message and that spoken messages tend to[…]

In How Steve Jobs’ Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution, former Chairman and CEO of CNN Walter Isaacson argues that modern technology is a direct result of the innovation in technology design that took place[…]

In Will We Stop Speaking and Just Text?, James Harbeck discusses the modern English language and how our spoken word is affected by the evolution of texting and other forms of shorthand, such as emojis. In[…]

In Human-Computer Interaction, Dix, Finlay, Abowd, and Beale argue that, to maximize interactivity, software designers should create interfaces that are as intuitive as possible and also minimize opportunities for careless mistakes. The introduction serves to[…]

In Interactivity: A Concept Explication, public relations and political communication professor Spiro Kousis argues that the interactivity of communication technologies over time has increased the number of channels through which people communicate using technology. By surveying relevant[…]

In The Medium is the Message, philosopher of communication Marshall McLuhan argues that the content of communication is actually less important than the form through which it is communicated. By choosing to focus on the medium, McLuhan[…]