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A young man with a blue shirt and orange hair stares, nay, is transfixed by smartphone. His eyes swirl in a whirling pool of red and yellow, drool crawling down his chin as the phone's light shines brightly in his face, contrasting against the dark purple background.

Doom-Scrolling Dooms Media as We Know it

Cerasela Hanseter, University of California, Berkeley

Doom-scrolling is doing more than just ruining our attention spans: it is transforming news and media as an enterprise.…

April 21, 2024

Are You in a Toxic Relationship? Here Are the Tell-Tale Signs

Nnekakwo Adibe, Lesley University

Falling in love is easy, but falling out of love is hard. Staying in a relationship that is unsafe, controlling, or makes the people around you uneasy or concerned is harder.…

December 3, 2020

‘Caillou the Grownup’ Shows the Terrifying Future of a Spoiled Child

Summer Brotman, University of California, Los Angeles

This YouTube series imagines the titular (some might say obnoxious) character of the original PBS children's series as an adult — with the same off-putting mindset he had as a child.…

November 17, 2020