social media

June Ahn, UCI associate professor of education, has been awarded a two-year, $397,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences under its researcher-practitioner partnerships program. His project will explore how to scale mentorship via a text messaging application that incorporates social and emotional supports to help stem “summer melt,” in which motivated and academically prepared […]

Humanities commencement speaker Sona Patel ’06 discusses post-UCI success

Understanding the ‘weaponization’ of social media is the first step

Careful consideration is given to which photos, activities and links are shared

Social ecologists probe positive, negative effects of digital technology

People who rely on social media encounter more rumors, report greater distress

From mobile phone applications to website search engines, wearable technology to social platforms, consumer data has become highly obtainable and trackable. The result is an ethically questionable free-for-all in research and marketing, but consumers aren’t the only ones concerned about how their personal information is being collected and utilized. UCI is one of six institutions […]

UCI researchers develop, deploy innovative social media approach

Study correlates tiredness, bad mood, distractibility and social media browsing

Jed Brubaker’s graduate research guides Facebook’s new policy on postmortem account stewardship