TechCrunch 2024-04-13 13:19:27 Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk.” A previous version of Airchat was released last yearbut the team — led by AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and former Tinder product exec Brian Norgard — rebuilt the app and relaunched it on iOS and Android yesterday. Currently invite-only,…
TechCrunch 2024-04-11 10:00:35 Flipboard, a Web 2.0-era social magazine app that is reinventing itself to capitalize on the renewed push toward an open social web, is deepening its ties to the fediverse, the social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube and, in time, Instagram Threads, among others. On Thursday, the…
2024-04-09 20:00:33 Adapted with permission from Dewhurst, M. (2023). Social Justice Art Education: A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy2nd Ed., (pp. 37 – 39). Harvard Education Press. Listen to any group of artist-educators talking about their work and you’ll notice the slip to we in conversations about social justice education. It’s a very active wean invitation…
2024-04-02 20:09:58 Ioakim Boutakidisprofessor of child and adolescent studies at California State University, Fullerton, notes that the self-regulatory components of the brain aren’t integrated as quickly in boys as in girlsand “boys that have a harder time picking up on social cues are often the most aggressive because they misinterpret accidental gestures as malicious intent.”…
TechCrunch 2024-03-29 06:10:26 When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friends, zero followers, zero likes. But as you start posting content, you might get more and more likes and comments. That could lead to new followers. And that dopamine boost will encourage you to post even more. A new app…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-03-29 02:00:15 When New York’s governor and attorney general joined forces to pass a law trying to restrict social media companies’ ability to use algorithms to shape content for children, they expected Big Tech to put up a battle. That fight has certainly arrived, but with far more opponents than anticipated….
NYT > Top Stories 2024-03-18 14:33:20 A majority of the Supreme Court seemed wary on Monday of a bid by two Republican-led states to limit the Biden administration’s interactions with social media companies, with several justices questioning the states’ legal theories and factual assertions. Most of the justices appeared convinced that government officials should be…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-03-16 04:02:50 The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case that involves the Biden administration’s efforts to communicate with social media sites about posts officials believed made false or misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines and the pandemic. While the case primarily focuses on a debate around free speech,…
TechCrunch 2024-02-29 11:00:57 A startup that aims to combine the ticket-buying experience online with a social network, EQ Ticketsis today emerging out of stealth to help make discovering shows and other live events a more social activity. What’s more, the company promises to offer ticket prices that undercut some of its competitors operating similar secondary…
TechCrunch 2024-02-23 12:31:33 Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is nearing, promising to be the largest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the company’s S-1 filingReddit fails to fully address the complications that arose from changes to its developer platform and API pricing, which late last year led to site-wide protests, communities going dark, site stability issues,…
