Why Gen Z Is Surprisingly Susceptible to Financial Scams Gen Z is more than three times as likely to fall for online scams compared to boomers. Experts weigh in on why

The narrative on old people being more likely to be fraud victims was tough to evaluate given how overtargeted they were for many years. Now seems tech is making it easier to target the young & ppl are now saying young adults are more susceptible. Anyone can be a victim. This is an all ages problem

Call for Papers! On June 12, 2025, we host a pre-conference on #ScienceCommunication before the 75th Conference of the International Communication Association in Denver, CO 📢

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#Deadline for submissions: Jan 24, 2025

Spread the word! #ICA25

One of my favorite things to do the last day! A nice supplement is to ask groups of 3-4 ID 1-2 texts I should teach again and which 1-2 I should drop. Sometimes there's a clear consensus (helpful for me), and other times students realize that their preferences are not universal (helpful for them).

What is Bluesky? Why tens of millions of people are heading for a ‘decentralised’ social media platform With a name that invokes freedom and a clean start and a design that promises to put control back in our hands, the Bluesky platform is attracting users away from Twitter/X en masse.

What is Bluesky? 🦋

A neat, useful, and thoughtful primer by the fabulous @jeanburgess.bsky.social

#commsky #academicsky #bluesky

theconversation.com/what-is-blue...

Civil discourse: Tips for navigating potentially divisive discussions around the holiday table “We’re in a really tense time as a nation, and that tension is not just felt at the grand political sphere, but also at more local, proximal levels, like family.”

Heading home to a divided family this holiday season? Some tips on how to navigate political tension from Mathew Levendusky, @stecula.bsky.social, Mandy Fauble, and myself. My biggest takeaway: your goal doesn’t need to be political conversion. And if it doesn’t feel safe, choosing to skip is OK!

Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it? | Shorenstein Center This event was part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern Univ...

In case you missed it last week, here's a recording of my talk "Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it?" See what we found in our giant collaborative megastudy testing 9 different online misinformation interventions!

shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

Facebook/Meta has announced that they are closing down their Crowdtangle app, which provided access to their public data to journalists and researchers. It hasn’t been well-supported for a few years, but it was still useful. This will be another big loss to platform transparency.

We have a new compliance-gaining textbook out with in-depth analysis of the most powerful ways to get people to say yes.

Commsky

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