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It’s silly o’clock on a Sunday morning and I’m still in bed when I hear my phone ping with a WhatsApp notification. I take a look and groan. A colleague is asking if I know how we teach subtraction according to our mental calculations policy. This is

Nicole W. Forrester, Assistant Professor, School of Media, Ryerson University There has always been a symbiotic relationship between media, sports and athletes. Sports provides content for media, which in turn promotes the performances of athletes. But the advent of social media has disrupted this traditional connection. Rather than

In fact, there are two new studies — which were both led by Jeffrey Hall, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence — that dispel “social displacement theory.” Social displacement theory basically states that the more time you spend in the world of

Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram might not be destroying the minds of The Youth™ as much as we thought, according to a recent review published in Educational Psychology. In some cases, social media could even be helping them do better at school. German researchers analyzed 59 published and unpublished studies that

The social media onslaught against Lindsey Vonn doesn’t seem to be bothering the U.S. Alpine skiing star. After Vonn failed to medal in the super-G last week, a slew of posts by supporters of President Trump, often using profane or threatening language, celebrated the result. “I always

Four middle-aged men from southeastern Germany were rushed to the hospital on Sunday after a social media stunt had gone awry. The men, all aged between 31 and 67, are coworkers at a small company in Tannheim, in Germany’s Black Forest region. They were participating in an

MILAN — Condé Nast Italia is launching a new editorial project — and it’s entirely social and platform-free. Called LISA — an acronym for love, inspire, share and advise — it will be unveiled this evening in Milan with a special event at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler. “It’s

Trust in what we read online is eroding quickly, and social media and “Big Tech” are facing blame. It’s even reaching a tipping point for advertisers, who are threatening to pull their ad dollars from the digital domain unless things change — fast. “Consumers don’t trust what they see online.” That was a central

Whitefish Bay School District officials were notified Friday morning, Feb. 16 of an alleged social media threat involving a Whitefish Bay Middle School student and “a school.” At this time, the Whitefish Bay Police Department is working with the Whitefish Bay Public Schools in determining the existence and

Social media is changing how we see an active shooter situation unfold. As we saw on Wednesday, students used social media to show in real time what it was like barricaded in classrooms, hiding from a shooter on campus. “People are utilizing social media before or in