Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people’s digital engagement. In …
Read More >By Phaedra C. Pezzullo, author of Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care This month, international leaders and representatives are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, to finalize a Global Plastics Treaty, which …
Read More >My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their …
Read More >By David A. Banks, author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America We’ve all seen headlines featuring interesting commentary on U.S. cities’ images or brands. In the lead …
Read More >By Mark Levine, author of We’ll Play Till We Die and Heavy Metal Islam The video, posted anonymously on Facebook, had only 300 views when I first saw it. The singer wasn’t …
Read More >By Bryce Clayton Newell, author of Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras Police body-worn cameras do have the potential to make police work, including misconduct and police …
Read More >By Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life (coming November 2020) The image of a darkened White House from several weeks ago, while screams of protest clamored …
Read More >This guest post is published during the Academy of Criminal Justice Science conference in Baltimore, occurring March 26-30, 2019, and in relation to this year’s ACJS theme of Justice, Human Rights, and Activism. …
Read More >By Paul Almeida, author of Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization One pattern emerging in the new millennium involves ordinary people mobilizing around increasingly negative conditions. When we observe some of …
Read More >by W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism The mainstream media’s recent angst and hand-wringing about a surge of “fake news” has tended to …
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