Over the past couple of years I experienced in my work and personal life a great level of uncertainty of how to balance screen time in and out of educational settings so that people can learn productively and … Read more
What is digital wellbeing and why does it matter more than ever? Higher education has been transformed in recent months in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as face-to-face teaching on campus has been abruptly moved online. For most … Read more
Echoing the words of Angela Brown, a writing compatriot, it is hard to believe I have been writing with AACE Review for a year! I first learned about the opportunity to write for AACE in January of 2019 … Read more
In this session of the social media class we discussed how to leverage different social media applications and networks, how to monitor reach in social media, and how to better understand the conditions for viral content with the … Read more
In this session of the social media class, we talked about how things can go wrong in social media networks, and, more generally, while communicating in a globally networked society. First however, we discussed how messages become viral … Read more
Just because you see it online, doesn’t mean it’s a fact… How to develop a spider-sense for fake news? The second session of my social media class dealt with the topic of fake news, one of the most … Read more
Since fall 2014, mobile devices officially outnumber people on the planet. With the ubiquitous access to mobile technologies, social media has become a global phenomenon. According to the data portal Statista, the power of social networking is such … Read more
With the ever-growing popularity of tools such as Instagram and Snapchat, social media has taken a visual turn. Instagram is a mobile photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook. Launched in October 2010, the site had … Read more
This summer, I am teaching a couple of classes at German universities, combining travel and teaching, two of my favorite things. One of the classes is about social media. I will work with approx. 30 students in a … Read more
Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more