YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

A new tool shows it is possible to turn down the partisan rancor in an X feed—without removing political posts and without the direct cooperation of the platform.

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The Pew Research Center's survey on social media usage shows that half of American adults use Facebook and YouTube multiple ...

Though it’s a little bit different than platforms where all users have profiles and post their own content, the most-visited ...

Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know exactly how addictive their platforms can be to teens. And they continue to target ...

Catastrophic losses to research and charity can be turned into wins if we rewrite the social contract of social media.

Social impact research combines data, rigorous analysis, and real-world experience to explore solutions to complex social and environmental issues. Social impact research at the Rustandy Center ...

Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products ...

This spring, with some fanfare, Facebook and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) announced that they would team up for a novel research collaboration. The unusual partnership has been greeted ...

The MSc is clearly the UK market leading social research methods degree. This is true both in terms of the quality of the teaching but also in terms of the quality of the students choosing to read for ...

Our current economic, ecological, and social tensions attest to the urgency of fundamentally transitioning the way in which we organize economic activity and its relationship to society. Through a ...