Mass Media

Mass Media

• What Do You Mean by the Media (The Atlantic)
• US media bias ranks worst in the world (Pew Research Center)

Inequality & Gender

• Exploring the data on Hollywood’s gender pay gap (The Conversation)
  
• Female Artists, Producers Underrepresented in Mainstream Music Biz (Variety)
• Must monsters always be male? Huge gender bias revealed in children’s books (The Guardian)
• What I wish people understood about sexism and TV news (Vox)
• Disney princes in 'Snow White,' 'Sleeping Beauty' are sex offenders (Fox News)
• Write Like a Girl (Writer Unboxed)
• Women in horror: Victims no more (The Conversation)
• Once upon a sexual assault … it’s not outrageous for fairytales to get a modern update (The Guardian)

Inequality & Ethnicity

• Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels (The Guardian)

• What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong About Race (The New York Times)

• 'Magical Negro': the racist cliche Hollywood won't drop (Punch)
• The pursuit of white women: Brown actors like Aziz Ansari have reduced brown women to a punch line (Quartz)

Inequality and Socioeconomic Status

• Why Won’t TV Show People Who Aren’t Rich? (Politico)

Digital Divide

• What Is America's Digital Divide and Who's Still In It? (Thought & Co)
• Pacific Coast and Most Northeast States Lead Country in Broadband Internet (U.S. Census Report)
• Systemic Racial Discrimination Worsens the US Digital Divide, Study Says (Motherboard)

Television

• The sick way producers manipulate ‘Bachelor’ contestants (Page Six)
• TV sets are starting to disappear from American homes (Recode)
• How TV Taught Me to Cut Myself (Science of Us)

Music

• Pop Music Hits Just As Violent As Rap, Hip-Hop Songs; Country Music Tamest (Study Finds)

• The Neuroscience Of Music, Behavior, And Staying Sane In The Age Of Twitter (Fast Company)

News

• ‘I Don’t Know What to Believe:’ News Avoiders' Consumption Habits (Society Pages)
• Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News (Pew Research)
• How biased is your news source? (Market Watch)
• Younger adults more likely than their elders to prefer reading news (Pew Research Center)
• This robot named Heliograf wrote hundreds of stories for the Washington Post last year (Digital Trends)
• News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (The Guardian)
• Is It Bad for You to Read the News Constantly? (Time)

Fake News

• Not fake news: Major study finds no "liberal bias" in media — but there are other problems (Salon)
• That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It (Rolling Stone)

• Cambridge scientists consider fake news 'vaccine' (BBC)
• UW class on how to spot fake data goes viral within hours (The Seattle Times)
• How To Recognize A Fake News Story (HuffPost)
• I write fake news (The Guardian)
• I write viral news for a living. What it's like will shock you (Wired)
• Media fooled by fake news item about married twins (Morning Ticker) and 
• Jackson husband & wife shocked after DNA test reveals they are biological twins (Fake News)
• How Fake News Tricks Your Brain (National Geographic)

Magazines

• A Conversation About Life After Vogue With Lucinda Chambers (Vestoj)

Advertising

• The Ad Industry Keeps Selling An American Dream That Most Aren’t Living (Fast Company)
• Today in infuriating news, this study proves that advertisers show women in the kitchen and men at sporting events (Hello Giggles)
• Sex Sells? No, It Doesn't - D-brief. (Discover)
• The Most Polarizing Brands in America (Morning Consult)
• France bans extremely thin models (BBC News)

Technology

• Don't Blame Phones for Teens’ Mental Health Issues (Fortune)
• Doc Claims Too Much Screen Time Turns Kids Into Digital Junkies (CBS)
• New screen time rules for kids, by doctors (CNN)
• Parental Views About Children's Use of Mobile Devices (Common Sense Media)

Internet

• The world's digital divisions are deeper than you might think (World Economic Forum)

• The Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets (Vanity Fair)
• About a quarter of U.S. adults say they are ‘almost constantly’ online (Pew Research)
• Your Privacy Is Gone. You Just Don't Know It Yet (Tom's Guide)

Social Media

• Social media has the “exact same negative effect on depression” as eating potatoes (Quartz)
• The Follower Factory (The New York Times)
• How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails (The Atlantic)
• Study: Americans think we overreact to online harassment — but also that it’s a “major problem” (Vox)
• The Ugly Evolution of Cyberbullying (Vice)
• With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there's a likely culprit (The Conversation)
• US psychologists claim social media 'increases loneliness' (BBC)
• Social Media Making People Anti-Social, Jealous (Study Finds)

Video Games

• One reason young men aren’t working? They can’t stop playing video games (Market Watch)