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Michael Socolow
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Communication & Journalism, University of Maine.
2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra.
Posts speak only for myself, not my employer

https://cmj.umaine.edu/faculty-staff/michael-j-socolow/
Only "frequency of use" ["daily" + "ever"]
Nothing about posting v. scrolling, etc.
There's many issues involved in surveying people about their media use (vs. surveillance), much slippage, and the metrics can also be confusing.
Mystification abounds for commercial reasons [cf. Dallas Smythe].
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Just a few hours later, World War I ended. Here’s how it ended for him (from his autobiography, titled, "Now That You Mention It" (1973)) (11/11)
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
But it was a dud. The German artillery shell didn’t explode. He and the other Marines survived. (10/11)
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Then it happened: a bomb landed directly in the middle of his company. Everyone knew they were about to die: “Even if cover had been available, none could have reached it in time. Fascinated, immobile, they could only await the end,” he remembered (9/11)
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
That day – November 11, 1918 – was Grandpa’s 23rd birthday. He spent the early morning in combat, covering a bridgehead attack while enduring shelling (8/11)
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Months of combat ensued. Until November 10, 1918, when rumors of an armistice were followed by delivery of hot & delicious meals. Everyone was happy until an officer ordered them to load up – they were attacking the Germans at dawn (7/11)
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
He entered Belleau Wood with a company of over 200 men. Here @nytimes.com (“A First-Class War,” 8 June 1958) describes the ordeal. He made sergeant for being 1 of 11 Marines in his unit to survive the battle (6/11)
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
So getting to France & war in early 1918 was a relief. Like other Marines, he was eager to go into battle. Then Belleau Wood happened. Here he talks about Belleau Wood combat in a 1964 British Broadcasting Corportation documentary ("The Great War") (5/11)

youtu.be/fHv085jr47s?...
The Great War: BBC 1964 Documentary - Episode 22: "Damn Them, Are They Never Coming In?"
YouTube video by History War Cinema
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Things got worse – and more difficult – down at Parris Island. The base wasn’t prepared for so many new recruits. After basic training everyday the new recruits were pressed into labor gangs doing construction & hauling every night (4/11)

books.google.com/books?id=M08...
C. A. Brannen
Scholars and historians offer several theories for the crippling losses suffered by the American Expeditionary Forces on the battlefields of World War I: inexperience, poor leadership, hasty expansion...
books.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM