An Evening with Kara Alaimo
Published on February 18, 2025
Kara Alaimo, PhD, will speak about her book, Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls -- and How We Can Take It Back, which explains how social media is impacting every aspect of the lives of women and girls and what users, lawmakers, and tech companies can do to solve these problems. She’ll also talk about how parents can handle the social media use of children of all genders. Dr. Alaimo will be interviewed by Lauren Moran, an entrepreneur, influencer, content creator, and small theatre owner. There will be time for Q&A after the conversation.
This is a hybrid program: audience members may attend in-person or via Zoom. Registration is required for either mode of attendance.
About the Author: Kara Alaimo, PhD is author of the book Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back. She is a communication professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she created the university’s academic programs in social media, and has been writing opinion and analysis pieces for CNN about the social impact of social media and issues affecting women and girls since 2016. She speaks frequently to parents and students in schools about how to handle kids’ social media use.
About the Book: In Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls – And How We Can Take It Back, communication professor Kara Alaimo demonstrates how social media affects every aspect of the lives of women, girls and nonbinary people — from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental wellbeing. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought — whether you’re constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo also offers up brilliant advice for how to get over the influence. Over the Influence calls on women to recognize and call out the subtle (and not-so-subtle) sexism and misogyny we find online, reject misinformation that is targeted to us because of our gender, and use our platforms to empower ourselves and other women.
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