Posting about one’s children and family has become a routine practice for mothers on social media. The task of presenting oneself as “good” mother is subject to the trouble competing requirements around motherhood (e.g., neoliberal intensive mothering, feminine relationality) well ideals which are unrealistic many. These troubles further complicated by sharenting discourses in parental posting ...

During 2014–15, there were several outbreaks of nominated-based online social contagion. These infections, which were transmitted from one individual to another via posts on social media, included games such as ‘neknomination’, ‘ice bucket challenge’, ‘no make up selfies’, and Facebook users re-posting their first profile pictures. Fitting a mathematical model of infectious disease transmission...

WELCOME MESSAGE Welcome to the 2015 IU South Bend Undergraduate Research Conference! Whether you are student, staff, faculty, friend, visitor, or family, you have a wonderful day of intellectual and creative engagement ahead of you. Our call for submissions received another incredible response this year, and the conference features the research and creative activity of more than 90 students, or...