opinion
HYPE AND ANTI-HYPE
The debate surrounding this new technology either wildly overhypes the benefits or hyperbolically catastrophizes the potential dangers.
Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, Ph.D., is the author of The TECHLASH and Tech Crisis Communication. She is a Former Research Fellow at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her expertise is in tech media and tech PR. She is also a contributor to Techdirt, Newsweek, Tech Policy Press, and Big Think.
opinion
TECHLASH
Correlation is not causation, and many popular media narratives about social media harms are overstated.