Communications Major

I don't know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering

They are hidden in celebrity photos on Instagram in many of our streaming shows. "Easter eggs" and harvesting them is now integral to our consumption of entertainment. But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia.

A new study co-authored by Wharton Deputy Dean Nancy Rothbard explores the dilemma of digital etiquette for employees who befriend co-workers and managers online.…Read More

Instagram sucks now. What was once a repository for photos of friends and family is now a junkyard stuffed with knockoff TikToks known as “Reels.”

Documents that a whistle-blower, Frances Haugen, provided to The Wall Street Journal showed that Instagram made body-image issues worse for one in three teenage girls.

Artistic production has been long shrouded in mystery, but how artists are engaging with Instagram enables a new context for art practice. “[It adds] a virtual layer to the art world, alongside the atelier, museum or gallery” says van den Berg; one that is accessible, and which presents artists’ concerns, experiments and processes in ways that we would never ordinarily encounter.

Because this is part of any sordid uncoupling....

Miley Cyrus and estranged husband Liam Hemsworth have unfollowed each other on Instagram.

"Say you go out with a dude. It’s great or okay. You hook up. That’s great or okay. You never talk again. Eight-hundred miles and seven years later, they’re gone forever, right? Or so we thought till last summer, when Instagram Stories debuted..."

Instagram influencers Bianca Valle, Charlotte and Sophie Bickley, and Zach Weiss explain how to master the planned candid photo in this video.

The Instagram divorce announcement has become so de rigueur that it is no longer limited to celebrities. Influencers and non-famous “normal” people have typed up statements to tell their followers about the end of their marriages.

Its decline is about not just a loss of relevance, but a capitulation to a new era of “performance” media, in which we create online primarily to reach people we don’t know instead of the people we do. 

Sharing photos may subtly change what — and how — we remember.

The outage disrupted the digital lives of small-business owners, politicians, aid workers and others. But for some, it was a welcome reprieve.

The pandemic made people appreciate the small things in life, and even that had to be shared. Now those moments live on Instagram as a new kind of slideshow.

As the wilderness gets overrun, the most hated man in the Rockies finds an audience of emulators and antagonists.

“I want to be able to post fake things to the Internet. That’s my fucking right as an American.”

She’s a minor influencer. Her currency is attention. And, as we learned Tuesday, she had help.

Digital nomadism and van life lie at the heart of today’s work aesthetics. These trends may create liminal experiences within job markets....

Have you ever wondered how would legendary Merilyn Monroe fit in our modern age. Well, a young photographer Daniel Sachon asked himself this question.

A new study found we enjoy experiences more when we take photos to document them.