Brooke Foucault Welles in the Press
#FreeBritney movement resurges after star’s hotel fight sparks conservatorship fears
According to Brooke Foucault Welles, professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and author of You want a piece of me: Britney Spears as a case study on the prominence of hegemonic tales and subversive stories in online media, Spears’s battles are part of a larger issue of stories that emerge online, are picked up in the […]
InStyle
How to Take Your Activism Offline and Be an Ally in Real Life
University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Sarah Jackson, Northeastern University professors Dr. Moya Bailey, and Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles, authors of Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, argue that virtual activism can mash-up “the speed of communication on the internet with careful organizing,” which lets organizers build “inclusive, connected movements.”
Mashable
How to ensure your online activism has an offline impact
Forthcoming research from three professors focused on digital media, identity, and social change — University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Sarah Jackson, Northeastern University professors Dr. Moya Bailey, and Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles — can offer some advice.
Medium
Hear us roar: High schoolers are more supportive of the First Amendment over time, but girls and students of color are less enthusiastic than others
Now we are publishing a trend analysis of these studies—developed by Northeastern University media and communications professors John Wihbey and Brooke Welles — that examines how student views have changed over the past 15 years.
KPCC
Generation Z job-seekers turn to smartphones for help
That “annoying” focus on the phone might worry some older parents or mentors about the fate of Gen Z in the workplace, but professor Brooke Foucault Welles of Northeastern University says it shouldn’t. “I understand why people can get frustrated that they’re always looking at their phones, but I don’t think that that’s a signal […]
The Christian Science Monitor
#Ferguson: How Twitter helped empower ordinary residents
“We hypothesized that people who got in early on who were not elites had an influence in shaping the story,” says Sarah Jackson, an assistant professor of communication who co-authored a paper looking at the Twitter networks spreading information during the first days of the Ferguson protests. It was published last month in the journal […]
Move over, millennials. Gen Z is new target audience
To the older consumers, it’s more obvious a product is being advertised when brands post content on social media. But teens do not see it this way, said Northeastern University communications professor Brooke Foucault Welles, who researches high schoolers’ social media habits. Gen Z sees the content as experiences they want to remake. “They really […]
The age of never-ending internet chats
Yet if in this instance I confused conversation with action, I can name dozens more times when online exchanges have helped me be brave. Often Phoebe and I message each other just before we’re about to do something scary. We give each other the nudge we need to swing from contemplation into deed, to buy […]
