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Literature professor Miguel Salas highlights the importance of ensuring teenagers don’t abandon the pleasure of reading in the age of TikTok and YouTube

Content moderators in the African country have formed a union to defend themselves against Big Tech. Social media giants outsource work to these freelancers, who are tasked with removing violent rhetoric and extremism from digital platforms

African countries are investing to attract visitors from the largest outbound market in the world after the collapse in foreign arrivals during the coronavirus pandemic

Famous for videos in which he destroys the aesthetics of the homes of the Kardashians, Tommy Hilfiger and Cara Delevingne, the New York comic is preparing a podcast and a live show

Social networks such as Weibo and Xiaohongshu are filled with publications mocking the alleged blandness of Western menus

Videos deciphering intimate exchanges between the famous have grown popular on the social network, despite ethical dilemmas

Users can block apps or set challenges to reach their ‘digital detox’ goals

This Mexican lawyer and member of Meta’s Oversight Board provides insights into the internet’s impact on democracy

Words were created within a digital setting to evade rules and are now permeating spoken language, especially among young people

Every summer, social media fills up with yacht selfies that have become the latest measure of success

The consequences of this phenomenon, which can be aggravated during the summer, include irritability, lack of concentration and low self-esteem

They don’t like their idols smoking or dating older people. They hate alcohol and drugs and find it hard to see sex as anything but evil. They are prudish teenagers on a mission to save the world’s morality

Prisoners’ wives and girlfriends are making money by sharing the ins and outs of visiting their partners in the country with the largest prison population after China and the U.S.

In ‘The Disconnect’, the Irish journalist and writer Roisin Kiberd dissects the drift of relationships, work and personal identity in the internet age

Migrants can lose anywhere from $1 to $20,000 per person overall in the scams, according to social media posts monitored during May and June and testimonies collected from migrants in early June

The deal averts a trial that had been scheduled for this summer over allegations that became a #MeToo cause for Kesha’s supporters and came to involve a lineup of music industry luminaries

The singer’s latest album is titled ‘Gag Order,’ an obvious reference to her ongoing legal battles with her producer

Despite having grown up with digital photography, young people love to preserve special moments on printed photographs

A five-year-old was killed in accident in Italy caused by a challenge to drive for 50 hours straight. Those responsible for the death, five young people in their 20s, promoted content that has garnered a total of 152 million views

The singer, originally from Culiacán, Sinaloa, talks about her experience of being the only Mexican act at Coachella and finding an audience in the United States while putting together her third album

We analyze the implications of an expression that is becoming increasingly popular in internet culture, particularly on TikTok

The ex-employee from ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says those same people had access to U.S. user data

Experts recommend thinking twice before uploading pictures of children to social media and call for the protection of their digital footprint

From websites specialized in hyperlocal tourism to TikTokers who recommend the latest and best plans, cities are reinventing themselves as more and more people grow thirsty for unique activities

In a more or less conscious way, words that were previously reserved for psychology and psychiatry have been incorporated into everyday vocabulary

Parents and young people bear most of the burden in navigating the fast-changing, often harmful world of addictive apps and extreme and inappropriate content found on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok

The law’s effects would be more far-reaching than bans already in place in nearly half the states and the U.S. federal government that prohibit use of the app on government devices