Aug 17 Students who use social media score lower in math, reading and science By Liana Heitin, Education Week Students who use social media daily score lower in math, reading and science. But don't worry gamers, the research shows you score higher. Continue reading
Jun 02 Watch 2:37 Teens on being tethered to their phones and social media By PBS News Hour Teenagers today have never known a world without smartphones and social media, and most of them can’t even conceive of a time where people sat around the dinner table without checking their Instagram pages. We asked a handful of eighth-graders… Continue watching
Jan 30 Facebook bans private gun sales on social networks By Michael D. Regan Facebook is banning private gun sales from being advertised on its social media networks, the company announced late Friday. Continue reading
Dec 03 VIDEO: San Francisco police shoot and kill stabbing suspect By Joshua Barajas Five San Francisco police officers fatally shot a man Wednesday, a scene that was apparently captured by an eyewitness and uploaded to Instagram, the San Francisco Examiner reported. Continue reading
Jul 16 Facebook is changing how parents raise their kids By Laura Santhanam Most parents who use social media today find information about raising children through their networking sites and care little about what information friends and family share on social media about their kids, a new study finds. Continue reading
Apr 09 Teens often turn to smartphones as gateway to social media By Laura Santhanam Thanks largely to the proliferation of smartphones, about one-quarter of all teenagers today spend nearly every waking moment of their lives online, often using social media, according to new research that should come as no surprise to many parents. Continue reading
Dec 23 iPhone cases featuring stolen, grisly war photos appear for sale on Amazon By Joshua Barajas "Who wants to buy a picture with a dead child on it," said Tomas van Houtryve, a National Geographic photographer, who recently surfaced several unauthorized Amazon phone case sales in a series of posts on Instagram. Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Photographers use Instagram to paint more complete picture of life in Africa By PBS News Hour Instead of focusing on only hardships, a group of photographers living and working in Africa have started an Instagram campaign to show the rest of the world what life in Africa is really like. Saskia de Melker reports. Continue watching
Aug 16 Slogging through the Met, one Instagram post at a time By Hannah Yi "Museum Hack" aims to recruit a new wave of millennial visitors to museums in New York City. NewsHour Weekend tagged along at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn more. Here's our behind-the-scenes look at the highly-"Instagramable" tour. Continue reading
Aug 16 Poll: What do you think of millennial-friendly museum tours? By PBS News Hour NewsHour Weekend asks: How do you feel about the idea of making museums more appealing to millennials with unconventional museum tours?… Continue reading