Feature Channels: Social Media

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The U.S. Department of Justice sued the social media app TikTok and its parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children's privacy. ...

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Researchers from the National University of Singapore have created a deep learning method to analyse social media images taken within protected green spaces to gain insights on human activity distribution as a way to monitor the ecological impacts of these activities.

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In AIP Advances, researchers from Shandong Normal University develop a new type of rumor propagation model, taking inspiration from nuclear reactions. Their model can provide fresh insights on how online disinformation spreads and how to combat it.

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More educated people who are skilled at finding reliable information through social media don’t always see cancer as fatal while those with less schooling and social media awareness hold more fatalistic beliefs about the disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found.

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New study demonstrates an effective way of curbing the spread of misinformation online. ...

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In the past three days, people on social media have embraced British pop star Charli XCX’s online pronouncement that “Kamala IS brat.”According to to Sara Marcus, an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and author of “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution,” that translates to a declaration that Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presumptive new nominee for president, embodies the sort of messy, complicated, casual womanhood that the singer’s recent album, “Brat,” depicts and celebrates in a series of infectious club anthems.

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A University of Washington study found that teens open Instagram because they’re bored. Then they sift through largely irrelevant content, mostly feeling bored, while seeking interesting bits to share with their friends in direct messages. Then, eventually bored with what researchers call a “content soup,” they log off.

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Picture your morning routine: How many minutes (or seconds) do you make it into the day before picking up your smartphone or opening your laptop?In an increasingly digital world, most of us need screens for nearly every aspect of our lives, from work to home and everywhere in between.

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July 15 marks Social Media Day, celebrating the profound impact social media has had on global communication and human interaction.

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Welcome to Pocket Science: a glimpse at recent research from Husker scientists and engineers. For those who want to quickly learn the “What,” “So what” and “Now what” of Husker research.