When a law with a missing Oxford comma cost one company $5 million, it can truly be said that the devil is in the details. Court cases not only can be lost based on a comma, though; they can also be ...

Whether or not social media affects mental health, and to what degree, has long been up for debate. While some contend that social media connects the world, others argue that it feeds a culture of ...

A new paper summarizing decades of research demonstrates how social media has supported an explosion of diversity in gender and sexuality in America during the 21st Century, and also how these ...

When it comes to digital media and social media, fam—teens and adults are sometimes lowkey on different wavelengths. And while it might just seem kind of cringe, it's actually big yikes. Because when ...

In the spring of 2023, the United States Surgeon General released an advisory based on growing evidence that social media use is harming young people’s mental health. Is this social technology ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology.