Conspiracy theories are purposefully vague. They rely on nebulous motives, shadowy and unidentified co-conspirators, ...

The Management Theory of Rosabeth Moss Kanter emphasizes the importance of empowering your workforce. Implementing it can ...

Elton Mayo's management theory states employees are motivated by attention and camaraderie rather than compensation, based on ...

The world is full of theories of everything. The smartphone theory of everything argues that our personal devices are responsible for the rise of political polarization, anxiety, depression, and ...

Information and communication theory, as a research area, investigates the fundamental limits and principles governing the representation, transmission, processing, and storage of information in ...

Contrails have a simple explanation, but not everyone wants to believe it. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Calum Lister Matheson, University of Pittsburgh Online influencers with millions of followers have ...

A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same fantasies that have been spreading for hundreds of years. The timing was eerie.

On October 1 1975, the academic journal Screen published an essay by British film theorist Laura Mulvey titled Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. It is a groundbreaking critique of classical ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

This article presents a Great Ideas for Teaching (GIFT) activity in which students design and evaluate a custom generative AI (GenAI) tool grounded in organizational communication theory. Working in ...