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RIT professors combine interactive media and hypnosis to ease pain
Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Washington are harnessing the power of interactive media and clinical hypnosis to help people manage pain without drugs. The team ...
Interactive ads and AI-led optimisation define 2025’s global mobile gaming ad landscape
Mobile gaming advertisers spent much of 2025 in acceleration mode, fuelled by rising installs, surging creative volumes and a rapid shift toward interactive and AI-generated ad formats. According to XMP’s latest Global Mobile Gaming UA Trends & Strategy Report, the year marked a turning point for
Forecast: Streamers to mix up the media experience in 2026
Applause, a provider of crowdtesting and UX research that works with the likes of Netflix and Paramount+ and sports ...
Emplifi Releases Top 6 Predictions for 2026, Forecasts AI Agents Will Transform Social Media Workflows and Minimize Burnout
Emplifi's predictions are based on insights from the tens of thousands of global brands leveraging the company's social media marketing and customer care solutions NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December ...
Blue Interactive Agency Unveils Advanced AI-Driven Marketing Solutions to Help Businesses Address Common Challenges in Digital Transformation and Connect Wit…
Fort Lauderdale, Florida – December 04, 2025 – PRESSADVANTAGE – Blue Interactive Agency announces the expansion of its ...
Silverback Digital Marketing Announces Expanded Social Media Marketing Framework to Support Evolving Online Engagement Needs
Silverback Digital Marketing has introduced an expanded social media marketing framework designed to align with the rapidly ...
The Rise of Online Casinos: A New Era of Digital Entertainment
Online casinos grew from a niche experiment into a major segment of digital entertainment. This shift developed through ...
Meta (NASDAQ:META) Nasdaq Composite Index Engagement Trends
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) shapes digital connectivity and remains linked to broader movements within the Nasdaq Composite Index.
Silverback Digital Marketing Announces Expanded Social Media Marketing Framework to Support Evolving Online Engagement Needs
Silverback Digital Marketing has introduced an expanded social media marketing framework designed to align with the rapidly ...
Jedi Digital Marketing Hong Kong Announces Expanded Digital Marketing Framework to Reflect Evolving Online Communication and Consumer Behavior
Jedi Digital Marketing Hong Kong has introduced an expanded digital marketing framework designed to address the increasingly complex landscape of online communication, audience behavior, and ...
Captive bottlenose dolphins vary vocalizations during enrichment activities
Dolphins produce a range of vocalizations used for echolocation and communication. These vocalizations vary with social ...
Analysis, Congressional Bill Support Classroom Social Learning
Classroom-based programs can cause a small but noticeable improvement in students’ social skills, with the most effective programs targeting students in key transition periods entering elementary and ...
Applied Behavior Analysis
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a type of therapy frequently applied to children with autism and other developmental disorders that focuses on imparting skills in specific domains of functioning, ...
AI voices adopt human social norms, signaling new era of machine sociality
The authors argue that AI voices that adopt human social cues become perceived as social participants rather than inert tools. This shift carries important implications for settings such as healthcare, therapy, child learning environments, and customer service, where users may rely heavily on empathy, trust, and politeness to evaluate interactions.
Case of Internet economic pundit Minerva roils South Korea
SEOUL — He was a self-styled Internet prophet, an economic pundit who went by the name of Minerva, after the Roman goddess of wisdom. In weblogs posted last year that drew a cult-like following, he ...
The Impact of the Internet on Society: A Global Perspective
The Internet is the decisive technology of the Information Age, and with the explosion of wireless communication in the early twenty-first century, we can say that humankind is now almost entirely connected, albeit with great levels of inequality in bandwidth, efficiency, and price. People, companies, and institutions feel the depth of this technological change, but…
The Internet – A 'Playground' for the Sociologist
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. 'When people gather in groups, bizarre behaviors often emerge': How the rise of online social ...
Down With the Internet Review Board!
Patricia Adler had been using student volunteers dressed as prostitutes as a teaching tool for 20 years—but suddenly, it was a problem. Late last semester, the tenured full professor of sociology at ...
Digital Degradation: The effect of internet culture on youth
In 2024, Oxford Languages named “brainrot” as its word of the year. This choice may seem peculiar, but for the billions of people around the world who maintain a social media profile, the word means more than meets the eye. The term refers to content that has little to no intellectual stimulation involved in its...
SMEs turn to social media tools to penetrate difficult market
Amid the restrictions introduced to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have gone digital in a bid to boost their market share and grow sales. Recent studies ...