Featured series 
Tag: social media
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Science & Tech
Does vitriol make you feel special?
Beyond the algorithm, online negativity takes on a life of its own. Here’s why.
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Nation & World
Would social media ban for children work here? Australia offers lessons.
New paper by Cass Sunstein, colleagues finds poor early adherence but also suggests trying to shift social norms, offering incentives could help
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Nation & World
Over the American dream? Watch this.
Video series spotlights schools, communities where economic mobility is top of mind
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Nation & World
What it will take to turn things around
Mitt Romney offers critique on nation’s divisiveness, foreign policy, value of hard, thankless work of governing
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Nation & World
Social media firms lost two bellwether cases, but future remains unclear
Legal scholar on next move for tech giants, chances of ‘master settlement,’ more
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Nation & World
Is social media responsible for what happens to users?
Landmark suit to examine 1996 law, questions about mental health, other harms, role of website design
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Nation & World
What would the Founding Fathers think of TikTok?
Experts weigh national security concerns against free speech in discussion of video app’s future
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Nation & World
What if we used AI to strengthen democracy?
Surveillance, control, propaganda aren’t the only options, says security technologist
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Health
Is a chatbot therapist better than nothing?
Experts discuss role of AI and other technology in future of mental health care
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Health
How to pay attention
Constantly distracted by devices? Experts share strategies on reclaiming focus.
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Health
Social media detox boosts mental health, but nuances stand out
‘Wildly different reactions’ among participants, says researcher
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Science & Tech
Rethinking — and reframing — superintelligence
Microsoft researcher says separating AI from people makes systems dangerous and unproductive
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Health
The problem with the school smartphone debate
Study finds most districts already regulate devices. Is the real issue enforcement?
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Arts & Culture
You’re not the only one who’s bored
‘Blank Space’ author says pop culture of 21st century has mostly been a dud
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Science & Tech
Technically, it’s possible. Ethically, it’s complicated.
Surge in AI use heightens demand for Harvard program that examines social consequences of computer science work
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Nation & World
Princeton leader defends campus free speech efforts amid ‘civic crisis’
Eisgruber, author of ‘Terms of Respect,’ says campus tensions reflect wider U.S. divisions
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Health
Can revenge be addictive?
Psychiatrist explains how humans are hardwired to crave payback and why forgiveness is the ultimate antidote
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Arts & Culture
Brief bursts of wisdom
Aphorism lover and historian James Geary reflects on how ancient literary art form fits into age of social media
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Science & Tech
Why is your head not exploding? Steven Pinker can explain.
Cognitive psychologist reveals uncommon depths of common knowledge in new book
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Nation & World
Onion holds up mirror; society flashes big smile (with green stuff in teeth)
How some students at University of Wisconsin-Madison created satiric cultural institution
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Nation & World
Brainwashing? Like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’?
More than vestige of Cold War, mind-control techniques remain with us in social media, cults, AI, elsewhere, new book argues
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Work & Economy
Remember when corporate America steered clear of politics on social media?
Study finds Twitter surge starting in 2017, most of it Democratic-leaning by surprising range of firms, with negative effects on stock price
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Science & Tech
Social media fueled divisions. Teaming up may help heal.
Study finds pairing members of opposing parties on the same side to compete in specially designed quiz eases partisanship
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Health
How young is too young? No such thing, apparently.
Specialist outlines impact of screen time on developing brains, from toddlerhood to teen years
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Arts & Culture
Patricia Lockwood wants you to admit the internet is real life
In Harvard talk, author riffs on ‘cloistered’ upbringing, crafting characters through dialogue, working in bed vs. on couch
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Arts & Culture
We used to read more, scream less
How has the internet changed fiction? 8 writers weigh in.
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Health
You went to the doctor and came out feeling worse
Psychologist who studied ‘medical gaslighting’ explains how caseload pressures contribute to the problem and when we should call it something else
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Nation & World
Did the TikTok ban go too far?
Law School debate examines potential national security threat, 75-day extension issued by Trump
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Campus & Community
Nieman curator Ann Marie Lipinski to step down
Pulitzer winner steered foundation through a period of disruption for the news industry and deepened collaboration with the Harvard community
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Science & Tech
Even Bill Gates thinks AI is a little scary
Tech pioneer visits campus with his new memoir to discuss beauty of math, dropping out of College, founding Microsoft, value of curiosity
