Discussing gaming and social media on podcast
I was a guest on the podchaser podcast- was a lot of fun! “Some questions she answered were “what she thinks about the virtual concerts in Fortnite, and why Epic […]
Category Archives: ::Social Media::
Copying Designs from Instagram Without Attribution: Where do you draw the line?
The accounts I follow on Instagram reflect two passions of mine: fantasy haute couture and cute baked goods. I follow less than a hundred of accounts related to these themes […]
5 things that Facebook should do but if they don’t, Ello should
Here are 5 suggestions for Facebook because they already have the resources to implement them, but if they don’t, other social media are welcome to run with the ideas. 1. […]
Emotion Contagion or Conforming to Social Norms? Are we misinterpreting Facebook’s psych experiment?
Last week, some researchers from Facebook, Cornell, and UCSF published a paper in PNAS about how more or less exposure to positive/negative status updates on Facebook made those who saw those […]
The Cost of Liking: I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more
I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more. Here’s why: I am not FB friends with mom, yet I found that she was getting updates of […]
Loneliness, Facebook use, and college adjustment
The first year in college can be hard- moving to a new place, meeting new people, being away from family can really affect one’s social adjustment. Social adjustment, in turn, […]
Dear Facebook, Dear Google
Dear Facebook, For your front page, you should make the top blue bar and the side bars fixed so that just the newsfeed is scrollable. This would make it so […]
Why social media matters for first-generation high school students’ college aspirations
My colleagues and I have just published a paper in Computers and Education [download paper here] about how social media helps first-generation high school students in terms of increasing their college application […]
D. Yvette Wohn 