In Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Expert Opinion” by Vincent Muller and Nick Bostrom, they survey hundreds of researchers with an expertise in the study of artificial intelligence to determine the direction[…]

“Cultivating Humanity Towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology” was written by Peter Paul Verbeek in 2009 and asserts that the technologically mediated character of our daily lives has important ethical implications. In ethics, the question[…]

The Personalization of Politics was written in 2012 by W. Lance Bennett, a professor of political science and communication at the University of Washington, offers a framework for how collective action occurs and is incentivized[…]

“Global Computing Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment” was authored by Ineke Buskens and published by Viewpoint magazine in April 2017. Buskens is a Principal Research Fellow with the Gender Tech Lab where she[…]

Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment by National Institue of Mental Health is a report written by staff writers at the National Institute of Mental Health in 2017, so it is fairly recent. The[…]

In his TEDx talk, Can the Internet Buy You More Friends? Robert Dunbar discusses the normative perception of the internet and social media compared to the reality. He explores the cognitive limits of the human[…]

On June 28, 2018, Time Magazine published an article about the top 25 most influential people on the internet, which they assessed by looking at their global impact on social media and their overall ability[…]

In “Robot Mediated Communication” by Susan C. Herring, there is a significant amount of human interest placed on the abilities of robots to acts as intermediary for communication. This transforms traditional CMC and has become[…]

In the Netflix series “Explained” the narrator introduces the level of impact and influence eSports has on the world today. Gamers from all over the world travel to a disclosed location multiple times throughout the[…]

In “Computer Mediated Communication: Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction” by Joseph B. Walther, he lays out the fundamental groundwork for CMC discussion. The paper was written in 1996, so he makes a few novel predictions[…]

In “Rich Media/Poor Media: The Impact of Audio/Video vs. Text/Picture Testimonial Ads” by Osei Appiah in 2006, there is a clear distinction made between the effects of modality on users. The research provides insight into[…]

In “User Experience: A Research Agenda” by Marc Hassenzahl & Noam Tractinsky, they explain user experience in the field of human computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design. The main objective was to collect a series[…]

In “Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication”, Kiesler, Siegel & McGuire explain why social psychological research may contribute to the understanding of electronic communication and technological change in the world more broadly. Published in 1984,[…]

In “Being Human: The Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020”, Harper et al. explain the knowledge of what the future might be in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In 2007, the two-day forum brought together academics from[…]

In Effects of Interactivity: A Meta Analysis by Yang and Shen, the effects of web interactivity were analyzed across 63 studies which satisfied some of their research expectations and provided meaningful results about objective and[…]

At the beginning of this short BBC video, the narrator posits the question, “has technology changed us?” She exclusively focuses on the controversial conclusion reached by philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLunan, which is the[…]