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Melissa A. Milkie, Liana C. Sayer, Kei Nomaguchi, and Hope Xu Yan, “Who’s Doing the Housework and Childcare in America Now? Differential Convergence in Twenty-First-Century Gender Gaps in Home Tasks,” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2025 “Housework” by pasukaru76 is marked with CC0 1.0. Today, researchers estimate that women do twice as much […]

New & Noteworthy Our latest Discovery, summarizing recent academic article publications, by Emma Goldstein highlights a recent study by Annika Pinch and colleagues which found that while BeReal initially encouraged authenticity through time-limited, unedited photo sharing, users gradually began to game the system by delaying posts and retaking images to appear more curated. This week’s […]

Annika Pinch, Floor Fiers, Jeremy Birnholtz, Justine Fisher, and Brigid Reilly, “New Media & Society,” ‘Is It Time for Me to Be Authentic?’ Understanding, Performing, and Evaluating Authenticity on BeReal., 2024 Image by Jordyn Wald. “Time to BeReal. 2 mins left to capture a BeReal and see what your friends are up to!” This is […]

TSP Board members Emma Goldstein and Mallory Harrington discuss Tressie McMillan Cottom recent opinion piece in The New York Times on the connection between tradwives, podcast bros, and wellness influencers and Donald Trump’s recent election win. This episode is produced by Forrest Lovette. Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/4eNZDlJ