Keith N Hampton

Key findings on rural students pre-post pandemic: ✔️self-esteem returns to pre-pandemic levels ✔️sharp drop in education asperations ✔️ interest in STEM careers drop ✔️learning from home over COVID-19 pandemic boosted digital skills ✔️rural access inequalities are now reversing

Rural students’ access to Wi-Fi is in jeopardy as pandemic-era resources recede, with major costs to academic achievement and educational outcomes theconversation.com/rural-students…

Hiring Assoc/Full Prof in computational methods or/and quantitative social science. Consider joining us! #DataScience #AI #networksci #geospatial #MachineLearning #infosci #sociology @MSUComArtSci @MediaInfoMSU careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/5…

@jdcampolargo @barrywellman Yes, @kkarahal worked with me at MIT. She is brilliant!

@mysocnet @barrywellman You'll enjoy this interview with Professor Karrie Karahalios. youtube.com/watch?v=TbK_lo…

Way to go Karrie! RT @barrywellman: Congrats on Sloan Fellowship, Karrie Karahalios http://ow.ly/18R4O

pre-post COVID-19 report on Broadband and Student Performance Gaps After the COVID-19 Pandemic. Change in rural Michigan digital inequality, student achievement, and adolescent well-being msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/msu-… @QuelloCenter @GabeHales @jm_bauer

@BenRussell27 Moral panic.

Hi @mysocnet, I would love to get your opinion on what you believe is the greatest contributor to the Digital Divide in today's society? - Thanks!

Interesting article on "Kinwork revisited: The gendered work of keeping up with family through communication technology" (some older media are abandoned as gender norms change) by Lina Eklund at Uppsala University journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@ATTHelp It has been six months since I got a new phone and I still can't make outgoing phone calls (except 911, it was the only way to reach the police after an accident)! Support keeps telling me that they will get back to me, but this is ridiculous!! Why am I paying for this?

Nice! "Detectable differences or functional equivalents?" validity of structural vs subjective measures of network diversity in political comm. I had not positive feedback when introducing position generators to this area @mbarni109 @MikeXenos @CynPeacock tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

If you haven't listened to this, you should. Great reporting by NPR.

Concerns over the future of sociology of media & communication, and a field of digital media studies "Disciplinary brakes on the sociology of digital media: the incongruity of communication and the sociological imagination" #socialmedia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Interesting paper by Rize Jing et al: digital inequality predicts depressive symptoms among older (especially rural) adults in China sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Postdoc opportunity at @MSUComArtSci open to scholars doing research on digital media (including sociologists like me). Two, 1-2 year positions for recent PhDs advancing research related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. More info: bit.ly/CASDEIpostdoc

Video games can help teenagers feel less isolated by helping them socialize and build community. Read about the positive effects of video gaming and @michiganstateu Professor Keith Hampton @mysocnet’s study: lifestyle.livemint.com/health/wellnes…

Being disconnected can hurt teen self-esteem more than heavy internet use bit.ly/3UCuqZu

A good summary of my recent work with @inyoung_shin looking at the small effect of screen time on teen self-esteem relative to "disconnection" and traditional inequalities. @QuelloCenter @MediaInfoMSU @MSUComArtSci journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@jasonkronemeyer @jean__hardy @jm_bauer @QuelloCenter We will take all the @jasonkronemeyer 's you can offer!!

@jean__hardy @mysocnet @jm_bauer @QuelloCenter Interested in a data science graduate assistant?

I appreciate @ASAnews asking me to write this article for #ASAFootnotes. I hope others find it useful. @ASAMedSoc @CITAMS_ASA #AcademicTwitter @ClemsonUniv #technology #Health Is Technology Use Leading to the Demise of Our Mental Health and Well-Being? asanet.org/technology-use…

Join us on October 11 for the annual Hotelling Lecture with guest speaker Keith N. Hampton to address the digital divide among Michigan's rural youth. For more, visit 👉 ow.ly/qkaM50KZV8n #WeAreLTU

Interesting paper that ties together the research on network size and diversity w/ FOMO and social media fatigue by @terryzhou1979 and Yu Tian (@NewhouseSU) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…