Personal. Safe. Real. These are important types of discussions to have when navigating complex health situations. These are the types of conversations that happen within a community of people who have ...

Throughout high school, more of my life existed online than in the real world. I had no traditional social circle. Instead, my need for human interaction was fulfilled by online communities like music ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand how many parents visit online communities where other parents discuss their experiences raising children, and the sorts of issues they ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Communications Psychology, researchers discussed the motivations behind joining digital communities and their diverse individual-level and social ...

The first weeks of school should be filled with jitters, anticipation and fresh starts. Instead, in Evergreen, Colo., they were filled with grief and fear. A 16-year-old opened fire at Evergreen High ...

When bots—automated agents that perform tasks on behalf of humans—become more active in online communities, it has profound effects on how humans interact with each other on those platforms. Bots ...