Getting kids moving, and learning
Tennis program for teachers, coachesCredit: Flinders University Children are set to move more, improve their skills, and come up with ...
Tag: Mass Media
Researchers use machine learning to unearth underground Instagram ‘pods’
A team led by NYU Tandon creates a means to track how 'pod people' manipulate social media popularity through reciprocity ...
Russian trolls on Twitter polarized vaccination during 2016 election cycle
Fake personas targeted pro- and anti-vaccination messages to Americans, based on their political preferencesCredit: D. Walter, During the 2016 election ...
In politics and pandemics, trolls use fear, anger to drive clicks
Fake Facebook ads placed by Russians in 2016 earned 9 times more clicks than typical adsCredit: Courtesy: Chris Vargo/CU Boulder ...
Monty Python’s silly walk: A gait analysis and wake-up call to peer review inefficiencies
Credit: Chart created by Erin E. Butler and Nathaniel J. Dominy. Fifty years ago, Monty Python's famous sketch, "The Ministry ...
Healthier and happier without Facebook
PsychologyCredit: © RUB, Marquard The group headed by Dr. Julia Brailovskaia published their results in the journal "Computers in Human ...
Expanding the plasmonic painter’s palette
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07523 By blending paints in their palette, artists can create a broad spectrum ...
Women deflated by #Fitspiration images
Super fit Instagram posts may be counter-productiveCredit: Flinders University Researchers have found that the #Fitspiration philosophy is flawed, making many ...
Many teens are victims of digital dating abuse; boys get the brunt of it
Study first to examine the problem among US middle and high school students in romantic relationshipsCredit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic ...
Humanity’s greatest risk: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food, water crises: scientists
Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth, 2020, a 50-page synthesis ...
Data from behind enemy lines: How Russia may have used twitter to seize Crimea
New research shows real-time social media data may have been a source of military intelligence for the Kremlin and potentially ...
A new ‘cool’ blue
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b03255 Throughout history, people have sought vibrant blue pigments. The Egyptians and Babylonians ...
It’s 2020: Time to teach teens ‘safe’ sexting
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Preaching sexual abstinence to youth was popular for a number of decades, but research repeatedly found ...
Kids twice as likely to eat healthy after watching cooking shows with healthy food
A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found children ages 10-12 were nearly three times ...