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Neighborhood Bookstores: A Vanishing Species?

09/19/2025 The Social Eyes 0

By Oumou Diakité While Amazon redefines our book buying habits, and giants like Renaud-Bray extend their empires, neighborhood bookstores find themselves at a crossroads. Slim profit margins, high rents, increasingly volatile readers: several elements signal a delicate rebalancing of the literary landscape. Books still get […] See more

Are Children More Anxious Than Ever?

02/14/2025 The Social Eyes 0

Kathleen Couillard – Agence Science-Presse (www.sciencepresse.qc.ca) The pandemic, pressure to perform at school, social media… Sources of anxiety for children and teens have multiplied over the last decades. Should we worry? In a special report devoted to anxiety, the magazine The New Scientist examined the […] See more

Social Media: Does Less Regulated Equal More Toxic?

10/16/2023 The Social Eyes 0

Illustration: Laetitia Géraud An article by Agence Science-Presse (www.sciencepresse.qc.ca) Does a reduction of regulation and surveillance on social media platforms automatically lead to an explosion of hateful, toxic statements? That’s certainly what we’ve seen on a host of far-right platforms in recent years. It remains […] See more

Social Media: Moderation is Key (Part II)

09/18/2020 The Social Eyes 0

Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, LinkedIn. These names are now part of our daily lives. By Sarah Langot And yet there are people who are fighting their own cyber-addiction by trying to get off these social media sites. Alice studies contemporary dance. She is in her […] See more

Social Media: An Outlet for Young LGBTQ+ (Part II)

04/11/2020 The Social Eyes 0

A 2004 study by Lisa M. Diamond and Sarah Lucas of the University of Utah shows that revealing your sexual orientation to others often leads to being judged and a loss of friends, if you’re LGBTQ+. By Sarah Langot Can online platforms be an outlet […] See more

Social Media: An Outlet for Young LGBTQ+ (Part I)

03/16/2020 The Social Eyes 0

A 2004 study by Lisa M. Diamond and Sarah Lucas of the University of Utah shows that revealing your sexual orientation to others often leads to being judged and a loss of friends, if you’re LGBTQ+ . By Sarah Langot Can online platforms be an […] See more

Learning to Be an E-Parent

06/13/2015 The Social Eyes 0

Once upon a time, parents could think their children safe when they got home after class. Schoolyard bullying ended when a child stepped through the front door. Home was a safe zone: safe from insults, intimidation and beatings. But the digital age has changed all […] See more