In Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the “Net Generation, Eszter Hargittai challenges the idea that those who have grown up in the digital age are automatically computationally competent. Instead,[…]
Category: Week 10
Technology and Dependency — Social Media Addiction, Self Esteem, and Life Satisfaction
In The Relations Among Social Media Addiction, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction in University Students, Hawi and Samaha explore, as their title suggests, the relationships between social media addiction, self-esteem, and life satisfaction by surveying university[…]
Navigating a Social World with Robot Partners
Android robots are entering human social life and the people that are interacting with them are unlikely to be technical experts and more likely to approach these interactions casually and intuitively. Because of this, it[…]
Life In A Day Movie/Documentary
Life In A Day is a crowd sourced movie/ documentary comprised of thousands of clips sent in from people from over 139 countries. The clips follow the daily lives of people around the world on[…]
TIME: Top 25 Most Influential People on the Internet
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[…]