Sunday, January 25, 2015
Social Media and the Cost of Caring
Social Media and the Cost of Caring
BY KEITH HAMPTON, LEE RAINIE, WEIXU LU, INYOUNG SHIN AND KRISTEN PURCELL
For generations, commentators have worried about the impact of technology on people’s stress. Trains and industrial machinery were seen as noisy disruptors of pastoral village life that put people on edge. Telephones interrupted quiet times in homes. Watches and clocks added to the de-humanizing time pressures on factory workers to be productive. Radio and television were organized around the advertising that enabled modern consumer culture and heightened people’s status anxieties.
Read more: Social Media and the Cost of Caring
BY KEITH HAMPTON, LEE RAINIE, WEIXU LU, INYOUNG SHIN AND KRISTEN PURCELL
For generations, commentators have worried about the impact of technology on people’s stress. Trains and industrial machinery were seen as noisy disruptors of pastoral village life that put people on edge. Telephones interrupted quiet times in homes. Watches and clocks added to the de-humanizing time pressures on factory workers to be productive. Radio and television were organized around the advertising that enabled modern consumer culture and heightened people’s status anxieties.
Read more: Social Media and the Cost of Caring
Saturday, January 24, 2015
How Girls Are Seeking (and Subverting) Approval Online
From selfies to shout-outs, girls are using social media both to build up and break down their self-image.
It's not a law that you have to post a selfie before, during, and after every activity. But for kids, it's pretty much mandatory. The resulting likes, thumbs-ups, and other ratings all get tallied, both in the stark arithmetic of the Internet and in kids' own minds. For some -- especially girls -- what starts as a fun way to document and share experiences can turn into an obsession about approval that can wreak havoc on self-image.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and Bullying
While holiday shopping, I saw many items featuring my favorite Christmas character, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Amid the nostalgia I was feeling for good old Rudolph, I was reminded of a conference I attended at the beginning of the calendar year. One of the speakers mentioned using popular art and media to teach classroom lessons. The speaker mentioned that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer could be used to teach lessons about bullying.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Reporting Online Abuse On Twitter Just Got Easier - ReadWrite
Reporting Online Abuse On Twitter Just Got Easier - ReadWrite:
Twitter has opened up its reporting tool so anyone can flag offending behavior, shortened the steps and made it “mobile-friendly,” letting users file complaints more easily from their phones.
Twitter has opened up its reporting tool so anyone can flag offending behavior, shortened the steps and made it “mobile-friendly,” letting users file complaints more easily from their phones.
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