While both services are top-of-the-line, Hootsuite is a better social media management tool than Sprout Social due to its extensive features, range of integrations, and better overall value. Sprout ...

Social media’s effects on the mental health of young people are not well understood. That hasn’t stopped Congress, state legislatures, and the U.S. surgeon general from moving ahead with age bans and ...

After more than a decade, Flipboard is adding a new layer of social features to its platform. The service is adding new commenting and creation tools to its magazines as part of a broader “shift in ...

To understand the path forward in regulating social media, it’s helpful to look to a transformative technology from the previous century: the car. A car is an essential tool for getting to places we ...

Parents, scientists and the surgeon general are worried. But there isn’t even a shared definition of what social media is. By Claire Cain Miller There have been increasingly loud public warnings that ...

Social media is the archetypal web2 application – the enabler of the “user-generated web”. But that doesn’t mean it will die out with the onset of the metaverse and web3. In the metaverse, features ...

As noted in our recent review of the most significant mobile game design trends of 2020, mobile games have seen a noticeable rise in the inclusion of social features. While COVID-19 has undoubtedly ...

As a researcher and an associate professor at the University of Michigan focused on adolescent development, I’ve spent years studying the unique challenges that Black girls face, particularly when it ...

A new analysis found that algorithms and some features of social media sites help false posts go viral. By Steven Lee Myers It is well known that social media amplifies misinformation and other ...