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Whisper Wants You to Vlog Your Mental Health. Should You?

Your Voice, a video-sharing platform from social media site Whisper, is trying to raise awareness for mental health issues by asking people to post their personal stories. But, given stigmatization, online discrimination, and the sensitivity of medical records, does the platform do enough to protect its users?

Social Justice

Facebook Makes You Sad—If You’re the Type to Just Sit Back and Watch

Researchers find that the emotional downsides of time spent on Facebook are limited to passive use.

Environment

Present Addiction: Our Need to Feel Connected, Right Now, All the Time

The Age of Earthquakes is a kind of philosophical Anarchist Cookbook for the online era, when we are in touch with everyone at once all the time, or at least like to feel that we are.

Environment

When Spies Tweet

How are government agencies adapting to the social media age?

Is Social Media Making Us All the Same?

Though more information is available now than ever before, the herd continues to beckon.

Education

The Folly of Banning Yik Yak on School Campuses

It's the auditorium of the undergraduate id—and that's precisely why we need it.

Environment

So That’s Why It’s Called a Hashtag

New research finds Tweets supporting—or celebrating—pot use outnumber messages critical of the drug by at least 12 to one.

Social media Twitter birds

Environment

Happier Tweets, Healthier Communities

New research finds county-level mortality from heart disease can be accurately predicted by analyzing the emotional language of local Twitter users.

Social Justice

Celebrating Independence: Scenes From 59 Days Around the World

While national identities are often used to separate people, a husband-and-wife Facebook photography project aims to build connections.

Heather Layton & Brian Bailey