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Article March 1, 2019

Social Media’s Recommended Content is a Trap

Getting rid of social media’s recommended content is similar to blocking telemarketers from your phone or cutting junk from your…

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Article January 20, 2019

Analyzing Generations Outside of the Marketplace

Anti-colonial philosopher Frantz Fanon observed that “a community will evolve only when a people control…

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Article January 17, 2019

Psychologist Blames Social Media for ‘Gen Z’ Depression. Where’s the Evidence?

“Generation talk” is a popular way to chop and screw segments of the U.S. population.…

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Article January 11, 2019

Liberals and Right-Wingers Launch “Bernie Smear Fest” 2019

In a recent article boldly titled “Bernie has a problem,” Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-Large, wrote that he…

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Article January 3, 2019

Louis C.K. made fun of school shooting survivors and non-binary people. Many others are doing the same act.

In a leaked audio of a set he did in December, comedian Louis C.K. is heard mocking…

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Article December 19, 2018

The Companies We Support Are Sinking Money in Facebook Ads

Although there’s no shortage of damning reports about Facebook, one aspect of the platform is…

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Article December 17, 2018

Republicans and Democrats Fear the Millennial Socialists

It is 2018 and U.S. Republicans and Democrats, and their media representatives, have joined forces…

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Article December 7, 2018

Coining the Millennial Label, or How Two Men Promoted a Predefined Narrative about Generations

The coiners of the millennial generational label are William Strauss and Neil Howe, two amateur…

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Article December 3, 2018

Brace yourselves! Male pundits in their 50’s are talking about ‘the Millennials’ again

What do David Brooks, an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist…

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Article November 25, 2018

Removing Ads and Recommended Videos from Facebook and YouTube Creates a Much Better Experience

I recently wrote a piece about why I think more people get their news on YouTube,…

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Article November 24, 2018

Sunrise Movement’s Climate Change Protests Illustrate Democrats’ Failure to Engage Young People

On the morning of November 13, 2018, more than 200 youth protesters with Sunrise, a movement…

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Article November 21, 2018

YouTube Pushes Right-Wing Talking Points. That’s a Problem.

Since YouTube keeps its recommendation algorithm under wraps, it has been impossible for the regular YouTube…

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Article November 16, 2018

Why People Get Their News From YouTube

A recent study from Pew Research Center found that the share of YouTube (YT) users who get…

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Article November 3, 2018

How Media, Tech, and News Networks Normalize Trump’s Propaganda

Throughout his life, Edward Bernays (1891−1995), known as the “father of public relations,” argued in…

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Article October 22, 2018

Millennials Don’t Have Different Needs at Work

A recent Wall Street Journal story revealed that some companies are paying “millennial experts” $20,000…

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Article October 15, 2018

Who Benefits from Manipulating Public Opinion about Generations?

In his best known work, The Society of the Spectacle, published in 1968, Marxist philosopher Guy…

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Article October 12, 2018

Addiction and Microtargeting: How “Social” Networks Expose us to Manipulation

Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook, has stated that to keep us occupied such platforms “have…

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Article October 5, 2018

How the Millennial Generational Identity is Framed in Mainstream Media

In their most popular book on the subject, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass…

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Article October 3, 2018

Why Can’t Democrats Reach Young People?

In 2016, Bernie Sanders ran for the Democratic presidential ticket with a message to “get…

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Article October 2, 2018

Deconstructing Propaganda about Millennials

Popular articles about generations often deal with proving and disproving stereotypes about tens of millions…

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Article September 19, 2018

The Millennial Label: Distinguishing Facts from Fiction

If you are reading this in the near future, perhaps sometime after 2035, you may…

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Article September 12, 2018

‘Generation Z’ According to Whom?

The preemptive labeling and defining of the post-millennial generation as “Generation Z” or “Gen Z”…

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Article August 22, 2018

How Neoliberal ‘Millennial’ Organizations Advance Trump’s Agenda On U.S. Campuses

A lot has been said about the perceived censorship of conservative perspectives on U.S. colleges…

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Article August 22, 2018

Cutting Through Dominant Culture in Bulgaria and the United States

I owe my introduction to American culture to the stand up comedy of Bill Hicks…

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Article August 21, 2018

It’s About Control: Social Media, Capitalism, and Addiction

Studies tell us that Facebook causes depression. Those intimately involved in creating the platform, from vice…

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