Social Media in 2022 has come far from its early roots and for many, it is a full-fledged business today. With the ‘life-sharing with friends’ aspect taking a backseat, modern social media via apps like Instagram and Snapchat centre around numbers and perfection. Enter BeReal, an app with an approach […]
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Poor English skills? New AIs help researchers to write better
When Yanina Bellini Saibene began her career in data science at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in La Pampa, Argentina, she was not fluent in English. She had learnt a little English at secondary school, but her family couldn’t afford the extra courses she would have needed to master […]
To Combat Online Radicalization, We Must Recognize That Online Spaces Have Become Extensions Of Our Lives
By Zeynep Kilik for The Opportunity Agenda Millennials and Gen-Zs have been raised in both the physical and digital spaces. The term “IRL” (in real life) is just proof of our physical reality becoming a second space. While the internet is a medium in which billions of individuals can share […]
Millennial Internet Tics Have Gone From Cool to Cringey
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. It took me two years to post my first TikTok. I’d press “Record,” mumble into the camera, […]
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply (Maskot/Getty Images) Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of digital devices, social media and other online platforms. For this analysis, […]
Time to follow Europe’s lead on social media regulation
How did harmful content and misinformation online get so bad — after so much time, money, and scores of people trying to limit the spread of inaccurate, violent, obscene, and harmful content? For starters, the problem is much bigger than it used to be, and human-driven efforts cannot keep up. […]