Timothy Recuber

Media appearances

Interviewed in “More than 1 million Americans have died of COVID-19. Why is there no national day to remember them?” Boston Globe, Thornton C. (March 1, 2025).

Interviewed in “Election-Cycle Memes: The Good and the Bad.” Smith College News, Racicot, A. (Oct. 18, 2024).

Interviewed in “Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today.” MIT Technology Review, Platoni, K. (Aug. 15, 2024).

Interviewed in “When Violence and Trauma Visit American Places, A Complex Question Follows: Demolish, or Press on?” Associated Press, Anthony, T. (June 18, 2024).

Interviewed in “Clicking Beyond Mortality.” Smith Alumnae Quarterly, McCoy Ebbets, J. (Dec. 20, 2023).

Interviewed in “On Sisterhood: Women’s Colleges Past and Present.” Harvard Crimson, McKrell, M.E. (Nov. 15, 2023).

Interviewed in “Are we all Suffering from Empathy Fatigue?” Dazed Digital, Poggi, M. (July 18, 2023).

Interviewed in “What the Titanic submersible saga and the Greek migrant shipwreck say about our reactions to tragedy.” Associated Press, Sharp, D. & C. Rubinsky. (June 24, 2023).

Interviewed in “Promoting Peace Through Communication Technologies,” Pomilio Blumm’s The Journal: Wednesday Briefing. (Mar. 16, 2022). [Newsletter].

Interviewed in Tiffany, K. (Mar. 3, 2022). “The Ugly, Embarrassing Spectacle of ‘Milling’ Around Online.” The Atlantic.

Interviewed in Hagen, R. (Aug. 29, 2020). “Issue 24: The Sociology of Doomscrolling.” The CovOdyssey. [Newsletter]

Interviewed in Green, K. (Jan 2, 2020). “Timothy Recuber on Colin Campbell.” Give Theory a Chance. The Society Pages. [Audio podcast]

Interviewed in Carman, A. (June 26, 2019). “The Worst Twitter is Celebrity Death Twitter.” Why’d You Push That Button? The Verge. [Audio podcast]

Interviewed in Resnick, B. (July 11, 2018). “’Empathetic hedonism’: why we were so glued to the Thai cave drama.” Vox.

Interviewed in Robertson, M. (November 30, 2017). “Destroyed by Wine Country fires, some North Bay neighborhoods have become ‘tourist’ attractions.” SF Gate.

Quoted in Betancur, B. & V. Livingstone. (January 20, 2017). “America’s Great Social Media Divide.” Fair Observer.

Quoted in Dewey, C. (April 21, 2015). “Three years after it fell apart, Kony 2012 may have finally changed the world.” Washington Post.