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Emoticons not expressing the full complexity of your feelings? UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner and his team at the campus’s Greater Good Science Center can help. They have assisted in creating a nuanced Facebook sticker package based on a character named “Finch,” inspired by scientist Charles Darwin.
Tag: social media
UC Berkeley experts, events and Election 2012
September 19, 2012:
A host of upcoming events featuring UC Berkeley experts will explore various facets of the November election.
Opening Day at Memorial Stadium
August 28, 2012:
Nothing could dampen the spirit of Cal fans returning to their beloved Memorial Stadium — newly refurbished, revitalized and retrofitted — for the first time since December 2010. For a play by play of the day, check out a collection of the photos and tweets.
African Americans are more apt to blog than whites and Latinos
April 4, 2012:
The blogging community is more racially diverse than one might think. Internet-connected African Americans are more likely to blog than their white and Hispanic counterparts, according to new research from UC Berkeley.
Raise your voice at ‘Sproul Plaza,’ the app
February 24, 2012:
The campus is rolling out a new social-media app to foster dialogue between students and members of the administration, as well as faculty, staff and the campus community. In a new video, Vice Chancellor John Wilton begins the first conversation, about university finances.
Instructors flex their ‘digital imaginations,’ and practice tweeting, in new-media seminar
December 8, 2011:
For the past semester, 21 campus faculty and staff have been studying the intellectual, historical and cultural roots of today’s “new media,” and using those 21st-century tools to reflect and interact. Applications will be accepted soon for the spring-semester offering of “Awakening the Digital Imagination.”
You’ll ‘like’ this Summer Reading List
May 5, 2011:
The 2011 list of recommended readings for incoming Berkeley freshmen focuses on social media, exploring how the hyperconnected, interactive online world is changing our conversations, our political discourse, our neurological development, even our attention spans.
