Communications Major

The rules for phone calls have changed. Here are the basics on when and how to make a phone call, and why you should think twice before leaving that voice mail.

One week later, engagement is down — but the prize is still there for the taking.

Three years since the pandemic was declared, many of the apps, platforms and digital tools that millions relied on to stay connected are struggling, shrinking or shutting down. Zoom has slashed 15 percent of its work force. Epic Games killed off the group video app Houseparty in late 2021, and even Meta’s Portal devices, which after years of challenges surged in popularity in 2020, got the ax last year.

Group texts became a social lifeline early in the pandemic. But all conversations must eventually come to an end.

We picked up a whole new vocabulary this year — some of it words that have been around forever.

If social media is your résumé, DM is your inbox.

Do smartphones provide filmmakers with the opportunities to organically incorporate technology into their stories? How has the evolution of phone communication changed and driven plotlines?

Last month, anchors at local news stations across the country made identical comments about media bias. The script came from their owner, the right-leaning, pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcast Group.

A new MIT study shows why Twitter’s fake news problem will be so hard to solve. The study analyzed millions of tweets sent between 2006 and 2017 and came to this chilling conclusion: “Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information.” It also found that “the effects were more pronounced for false political news than for false news about terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends, or financial information.”

For many of us, they are the last thing we look at before sleep each night, and the first thing we reach for upon waking.

Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.

President Trump turned his morning tweetstorm about the travel ban into a Facebook video and the result was ... not good. It seems you can now create a "video" from tweets and old campaign photos. Who needs PowerPoint!?

Making news and issuing statements on social media sites that also include Facebook and Instagram will "absolutely" continue, despite earlier promise.

From Tumblr to Gawker, the sites and voices that defined the 2010s are gone or changed. There is no happy ending to this story.

A Korean word? A new boy band? This new acronym is replacing LOL and ROFL on social media.

After Facebook ate the media, “It” girls no longer needed to coax the press or the blogosphere into writing about them (or to hire publicists to coax or protest on their behalf). Nor did they have to join the press to write about themselves and one another. They could be their own bully pulpits, their own gazetteers.

“The internet was coming. The internet was coming. The internet was coming.” But the internet as we know it wasn’t quite there yet.

In just a few short days, on December 31, 2020, we will say our final goodbyes to one of the most important internet technologies that ever lived: Flash.

I remember vividly the first time I saw Flash on a computer screen. …

The nonbinary pronoun "they" has been named Merriam-Webster's word of the year.

Don’t worry, the colleague you’ve never met isn’t trying to kiss you over email.

People are increasingly calling for boycotts of the big tech companies amid a backlash. The problem is that Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google are nearly inescapable.

New research from Pew found that 77 percent of Americans go online daily, but 26 percent claimed to be online “almost constantly.”

You can be fined up to $99 for looking at your phone while crossing a street.

Whether you first knew # as a number sign, the pound symbol, or a tic-tac-toe board, its incarnation as the hashtag has changed language for millions.

"Twitter is making the news dumber. The service is insidery and clubby. It exacerbates groupthink. It prizes pundit-ready quips over substantive debate, and it tends to elevate the silly over the serious — for several sleepless hours this week it was captivated by “covfefe,” which was essentially a brouhaha over a typo."