Feb
19
TikTok is the current app parents love to hate. A mobile app that allows users to create and share short videos, it was the most downloaded app of 2020. TikTok challenges continue to fill the news alongside reports of the big bucks that young TikTok stars are pulling down from...
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Feb
12
TikTok, a video-based social media platform famous for cringe-worthy lip-syncs, dance challenges, the viral success of Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road, and the revival of one of the best songs ever, Fleetwood Mac's Landslide. I'm really looking forward to this conversation with Diana Graber of Cyberwise and Richard (Rick)...
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Feb
12
TikTok has a bit of a reputation for promoting, as the New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino put it, “lowbrow clickbait.” A recent conversation with Rewire’s Gretchen Brown, however, led me to explore a part of TikTok that might actually be good for you — the slow video genre on TikTok. Following s-l-o-w-l-y...
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Jan
22
Between January 6 and January 20, we saw that Social Media Policies and Community Standards could be enforced. Although it was a bit of ‘backs against the wall’ action, social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Reddit, Google, YouTube and others flexed their muscles and banned or restricted some...
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Jan
21
We've seen a lot of troublesome things on social media over the last five years - fake news, misinformation, violence, name-calling, and other forms of abuse--right up to inciting violence in Washington DC. How do you talk about online behavior with kids when bad behavior is modeled by people we...
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Dr. Pamela Rutledge is available to reporters for comments on the psychological and social impact of media and technology on individuals, society, organizations and brands.