The antithesis to Instagram, as far as social media goes, is LinkedIn.
To contrast our party posts, vacation brags and birthday tributes, our generation has professional connections, job announcements...
According to the Pew Research Center, 54% of Americans report they consume at least some news from social media sources. These sources include anything from YouTube and Instagram, all the way to X and Truth Social.
Type “record store near me” into your search engine of choice today, and you’ll probably find at least a few stores near you. If Google existed in the 1970s, the results may have looked almost identical....
“Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party elites are harboring a child sex trafficking ring under Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C. pizza shop.”
Or so said the internet.
Emerging during the...
When former President Joe Biden’s Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy held office, he made a daring proposal: Social media should be the next product slapped with a compulsory warning.
“The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor,” Murthy wrote in an op-ed published by The New York Times in June.
Darnella Frazier was 17 years old when she witnessed police officers brutally murder an innocent Black man on the streets of Minneapolis. Frazier and other witnesses could only stand by and watch as George...
As the first generation growing up with access to social media, Gen Z kids are building a digital footprint both earlier and more expansively than any generation before.
I know plenty of toddlers — a consequence of my work with BU’s Jumpstart program — who do not know the alphabet or how to spell their names, but are acutely adept at navigating an iPad.
We have entered a new age and we need to face its reality — we cannot and will not live without our phones. They are the ultimate source of our entertainment, whether through texts, social media or more traditional entertainment like streaming platforms.
The college experience will never be as immersive today as it was in our parents’ day — perhaps the millennials were the last to reap the benefits of the university bubble.
