Sharing news articles with friends and followers on social media can prompt people to think ... they measured participants' subjective and objective knowledge for each article -- what the students ...

An estimated 70% of North Americans use social media to connect with ... same researchers found that people associated social media sharing with knowledge, and felt that sharing made them look ...

the researchers found that people associated sharing information and articles on social media with expertise. To test the difference between what people actually know — objective knowledge ...

Check out your social media ... knowledge (their belief about their knowledge) also increased with their objective knowledge. Interestingly, subjective knowledge also increased just by sharing ...

"For years, I had hobbled along with the bits of knowledge ... social media and other public platforms. Andrew Selepak, a social media professor at the University of Florida, calls social media ...

So, creating “more friction” to make simple sharing without clicking more difficult, as the researchers suggest, is unlikely to succeed. The answer lies in learning to better use the tool we call ...

This fall, researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington will launch an ambitious study to explore how teens’ ...

In the case of PSMU, someone might feel bad if they are unable to access social media for an extended period (withdrawal), or their use of social media might lead to losing a job, poor grades, or ...

North Americans spend an average of two hours and six minutes daily interacting with various social media platforms, according to the online database Broadband Search. Globally, Facebook's 1.9 ...

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is calling for stronger guidelines for social media use among children and ... urged young people to refrain from sharing deeply personal information online ...