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Violent Video Games Don’t Make Us Less Caring
TIME: Do violent video games make people more callous and less likely to help others? The latest study suggests not— but it likely won’t be the last word. … Dozens of other studies, however, have
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Social Networking in a Graduate Industrial/Organizational Program
While social networks proliferate, insight is lacking about how graduate students, faculty, and administration collaboratively engage such networks. In early 2011, University of Phoenix rolled out what has become the world’s largest, single institution, educational
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What Did Narcissus Say To Instagram? Selfie Time!
NPR: In these hyper-connected, over-shared times dwell two kinds of people: those preoccupied with taking and uploading photos of themselves and those who have never heard of the selfie. … But Pamela Rutledge doesn’t see
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6 Ways to Get Me to Email You Back
LinkedIn: Two years ago, I made a commitment to do something that made me profoundly uncomfortable. I had just finished writing my first book, and I promised my publisher that I would reach out to
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How the Hum of a Coffee Shop Can Boost Creativity
The New York Times: Pulling up a seat at your favorite coffee shop may be the most efficient way to write a paper or finish a work project. But now a new Web site lets
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We Still Need Information Stored in Our Heads Not ‘in the Cloud’
TIME: Is technology making us stupid — or smarter than we’ve ever been? Author Nicholas Carr memorably made the case for the former in his 2010 book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to