Social Media

Tag: Social Media

July 16, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor

Mind the Middle Project: Social Media, Peer Pressure, and the Relentlessness of the Information Age, a guest post by Melanie Conklin

What’s clear to me as an author is that it’s critical we talk with our young people about the many facets of social media use, even if those conversations are at times uncomfortable.

February 5, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor

The Questions That Burn Inside Us, a guest post by Hena Khan

My hope is that my readers will form their own conclusions about what role they want social media to play in their lives, what type of art or content they want to create, for who, and why.

January 4, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender

A heartfelt and thoughtful look at a fractured friendship and the transformative capability of love and compassion.

Is Social Media Making You Anxious? Me, too, a guest post by Deb Caletti

September 15, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

You may see yourself in all those squares, but, friend, there is only one you. The you yourself, a you with your own epic story, as every creature and human being who ever lived has an epic story.

Found Family in the Internet Age, a guest post by Amanda DeWitt

September 14, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

When I started writing my book Aces Wild: A Heist, I knew that I wanted the entire friend group to be asexual, but I didn’t know how. Then I realized that the solution was obvious: they met online.

How to use social media as a force for good, a guest post by Crystal Maldonado

January 19, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

It was my long-standing appreciation for social media that helped spark the idea for my sophomore YA novel NO FILTER AND OTHER LIES. I wanted to create a character whose obsession with social media goes a little too far and also highlight the pressures of existing in that digital space as a teen.