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Social media

Digital media+Discourse

Outrage overload?

Published Sept 25, 2019

Yale psychologist Molly Crockett shares insights from her work suggesting social media—and its encouragement of moral outrage in particular—may be changing our brains

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Mental health

Social media use may pose mental health risks for teens

Published Sept 11, 2019

Social media use by adolescents linked to behaviors that may indicate mental health problems such as social withdrawal and difficulty coping with anxiety or depression

Democracy Dialogues

Big tech, China, and the new age of activism

Published April 19, 2019

Zeynep Tufekci and Alec Ross discuss the complex intersection of technology and democracy at event hosted by SNF Agora Institute

Social media

Regulations harm influencers, marketers, followers

Published April 15, 2019

Carey Business School study shows how regulations meant to protect consumers may actually cause feeds to be flooded with ads

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Wading into the Twittersphere

Published Spring 2019

Increasingly, scholars are turning to Twitter for sharing research and engaging with the public / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Q+A

On tech and democracy

Published Feb 11, 2019

Technosociologist Zeynep Tufekci joins author, innovator Alec Ross tonight for "Democracy Dialogues"

Multiple news tweets referencing Demi Lovato overdose

Substance abuse

Missed opportunities in overdose coverage

Published Jan 14, 2019

Only 216 of the 42,500 news reports about Demi Lovato's alleged overdose included mention of national addiction hotline, 1-800-662-HELP

#lawsocialjustice

History class meets the digital age

Published Nov 7, 2018

JHU historian Martha Jones conducts required class discussions on Twitter, challenging her students to distill their thoughts and engage with subject-matter experts