Girls, Social Media, and Suicide
New research, reported in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, is telling us that as teens use of social media has grown over the last ten years, so too has the suicide rate among young people. Suicide is now the…
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Episode 136: “A Student’s Guide to Navigating Culture”
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: A Student’s Guide to Navigating Culture by Walt Mueller Kevin Yi…
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Doomscrolling
Way back in the 1970s media critic George Gerbner coined the term mean-world syndrome. In his research, Gerbner was finding that viewers who were exposed to a growing amount of violent television content were more apt to experience an increased…
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Social Media’s Negativity
According to new data from the Pew Internet and Life Project, sixty-four percent of Americans say that social media has a mostly negative effect on the way things are going in the United States today. Only ten percent of Americans…
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Performative Disapproving
One of the best ways to track cultural changes is to look at the new words that make their way into the dictionary each and every year. Back in January, the Merriam-Webster dictionary added a two-word phrase that is worth…
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