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Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted sex offenders inquired about a...
MIT's 2023-24 cohort of MLK Visiting Scholars comprises Tawanna Dillahunt, Kwabena Donkor, Denise Frazier, Wasalu Jaco, Morgane Konig, Angelica Mayolo-Obregon, Jean-Luc Pierite, Christine Taylor-Butler, and Angelino Viceisza.
The rise of social media use among youth is well-documented, but a causal relationship between social media use and violent in-person events is more difficult to quantify.
MIT Sloan Associate Professor Dean Eckles studies social networks and the effects they have on people’s lives. He examines questions such as: “How do social networks form and evolve? And what are the consequences of these network structures?”
Some social media users and lawmakers say chronological feeds are healthier. A new study found that Facebook and Instagram users who were forced to see time-ranked posts turned to TikTok instead.