Jessica Barfield Elon Musk is a great entrepreneur and inventor, but what is he up to now? We are all familiar with Musk’s recent successes with Tesla, and SpaceX, but is Musk now interested in developing innovative safety technologies that could directly benefit families? The answer is yes, it turns out that Musk wants to…

When I was growing up, scary stories were something that had always interested me. My family had traditions revolving around scaring kids into behaving with stories of La Llorona taking you away if you played near a river at night, or The Coco Man coming to steal me away if I kept misbehaving. These stories…

Hello, everyone! This is Joseph. Tomorrow marks the end of my time working in the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center here at the University of Tennessee’s College of Communication and Information. It has been a fun and intellectually thrilling year (not to mention the odd circumstances that we all currently find ourselves in) but…

What is the earliest time you can recall a woman depicted as either president or vice president of the United States? Perhaps it was in one of the more recent television series such as 24, Scandal, Madam President, or Veep. Maybe it was in 1997 when a female vice president played by Glenn Close descended…

Around Thanksgiving, we performed an analysis of what people were thankful for as the holidays commenced. As we near the end of April, things couldn’t seem less like November. The trees are blooming, not losing their leaves. The temperature is rising, not beginning to descend. But also people are not (for the most part) gathering,…

Well it finally happened. And ahead of schedule. Both major parties have presumptive nominees (i.e. candidates who have obtained or are on track to get the delegates necessary to secure their party’s nomination on the first nominating ballot). The Republicans will renominate President Donald Trump of Florida. Democrats, meanwhile, with the exit of Vermont Senator…

Prepare yourselves… Proms and graduations are canceled, toilet paper is disappearing from the shelves, panic buying is occurring, celebrities are making awkward videos about hand-washing and engaging in tone-deaf group singing, people are fighting over cleaning products, there is an increase of racial discrimination and violence against Asian and Asian Americans, many are being fired…

Like other public serving institutions, libraries are navigating the uncharted COVID-19 waters to see how they can safely and responsibly live up to their mandate to connect the public with information and support. Given that most people are sheltering in place as part of stay-at-home orders, it may be hard to know what your local…

It seems like no matter where we go (well, where we go virtually) people only can or want to talk about one thing: coronavirus. But as the global pandemic continues to unfold, not everyone is forgetting to celebrate the milestone. The phrase “Madam Speaker” has been trending on Twitter because the Speaker of the United…