As employers increasingly look at Facebook profiles of potential candidates, the use of profanity on their walls plays an important role in the perception of these potential employees. A recent study by social media monitoring service, Reppler, scanned the Facebook walls over 30,000 users and found some surprising statistics.
If you are looking to study organizational behavior, there may be an easy way to do it. This app — available from the Mac’s App Store — provides an in-depth professional-level course which covers human relations theory.
For years now, the London School of Economics (LSE) has been partnering up their graphic design students with social science students at the London College of Communication (LCC) to create visual rhetoric, like infographics, which better communicate their data and research more effectively to the public.
University of Arizona researchers have uncovered evidence in ant colonies that suggests that social networks may function differently than previously assumed.
Microsoft recently surveyed 1,268 professionals and students over the age of 18 to find out more about their email and online communication habits. Some interesting […]
Facebook has been thought to be a distraction from education and productivity, but a new study from Stella Wen Tian of the University of Science […]
With the sub-Saharan economies in Africa now relying on the extraction of natural resources for growth, they have begun to look at the media to […]
After an investigation into Seattle’s police, new training programs are being developed to improve the communication skills of Seattle and King County police officers.
There is a belief among people that weight and health is a matter of personal responsibility and therefore little can be done on a policy level to affect individual behavior. But, a panel moderated by editor of Health Affairs, Susan Dentzer, found that uninformed and unrealistic media who promote this view may not only be negatively effect individual behavior, but also how policy makers approach issues of weight and health.
The image of the female body presented by the media in most cases is one that is unattainable. In movies, magazines, music videos and advertisements women are shown ideal body weights that in most cases meet the physical criteria for anorexia or bulimia. By presenting these images, we tell women that they can only be sexy and acquire what they want if they meet these physical requirements.
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