For my paper, I would like to discuss how technology, especially communication technology, help people to improve their health. Health can be referred to both mental health and physical health. Although there might be some[…]

For Fox news, there were video clips discussed the event. People who work for Facebook felt unset about the company, but Facebook denied these charges. Both of articles mentioned Facebook’s stance, that “We’re a business[…]

In Conceptualizing the Self: A Critical Analysis of the Self as a Discursive Trend in Human-Computer Interaction Research, Hunrik Ahman described and analyzed the assumptions regarding the human as the self that informs HCI research.[…]

In Why I Fight To Close The Digital Divide, Mignon Clyburn applied her personal stories to deliver a strong argument that having a Digital Civil Rights Bill is important. In other words, she stated the[…]

In Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment, Ineke Buskens argued gender equality and women empowerment on social media, especially on Facebook. Facebook hold promise for women regarding personal growth and social emancipation that physical spaces[…]

In “COVID-19 vs Social Isolation: The Impact Technology can have on Communities, Social Connections and Citizens”, Hannah Marston, Charles Musselwhite and Robin Hadley applied different examples to demonstrate the life after UK Government suggested not[…]

In “Facebook went offline this week. Experts say we should log out, too”, Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman talked about the effects of this outage and expanded the topic to phone addiction. On October 4, the world experienced[…]

By reading the Edward Snowden interview from Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill as well as watching the short video clip, I gained a lot of information about the privacy issues that people may face. For[…]

In “Navigating a social world with robot partners: A quantitative cartography of the Uncanny Valley”, Mathur and Reichling designed a lot of experiments to indicate that the Uncanny Valley is a real influence on humans’ perceptions[…]

In both articles Does Technology Make Us More Alone? and Text or Talk: Is Technology Making You Lonely?, Michael Goncharand Margie Warrelltalk about the popular topic about technology and loneliness. First article discussed the smartphone-obsessed[…]

The communication technology I chose is WeChat, which is a mobile messaging app developed by the Chinese company Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and now it had over 1.25 billion monthly active users[…]

In 2019 Time’s 25 Most Influential People on the Internet, different writers talk about 25 people who had global impact on social media and all of them had ability to drive news. Lil Nas X is[…]

In George Floyd’s death shows the power of social media as the US continues to grapple with racial tensions, Kathryn Diss states several cases of conflict between the police and the black and asserts that social media gives[…]

In “Robot-Mediated Communication,” Susan Herring discussed telepresence robot-mediated communication and key technological properties of telepresence robots. She also evaluated the robots’ advantages and disadvantages, leaving some questions that can be explored by future studies. According[…]

In “Can science-based video games help kids with autism?”, Sarah Deweerdt introduced Jeanne Townsend and Leanne Chukoskie, who work hard to develop video games that help children with autism. Games may improve a range of[…]

In “This Action Will Have Consequences”: Interactivity and Player Agency, Sarah Stang evaluates the assumption that videogames are interactive experiences which allow users to exercise control and agency over their narratives. The article applies two[…]

In “Are You Going to Delete Me? Latent Profiles of Post-Relationship Breakup Social Media Use and Emotional Distress”, Brandon McDaniel, Michelle Drouin, Jayson Dibble, Adam Galovan, and Madison Merritt examined post-breakup behaviors including monitoring, interacting,[…]

In “Digital Practices and Applications in a Covid-19 Culture,” Christina Romero-Ivanova, Michael Shaughnessy, Laura Otto, Emily Taylo and Emma Watson review the challenges, stresses and difficulties in Covid-19 dilemma, especially for students and faculty. Authors[…]

In the editorial User experience – a research agenda, Marc Hassenzahl and Noam Tractinsky try to provide a cursory sketch of how they think UX research will look like in the future. In other words, it’s[…]

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 focus on misinformation circulates[…]

In Human-Computer Interaction: Psychology as a Science of Design, John Carroll asserts that HCI is the intersection between psychology and the social sciences as well as computer science and technology. John discusses the emergence of[…]

In Theorizing Interactivity’s Effects, Shyam Sundar demonstrates some developing theories about effects of interactivity, especially in the environment of web-based mass communication. The author asserts that interactivity is an attribute of the technology and not[…]

In Communication Channels and Word of Mouth: How the Medium Shapes the Message, Jonah Berger and Raghuram Iyengar show that different modalities of communication have different synchronicity; compared to oral communication, written communication leads people to[…]