In The News: Department of Sociology

Yahoo!

Visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for "Storm Area 51" are from Earth, not outer space.

Voice of America

Visitors who descend to the remote Nevada desert for the assault on "Area 51" are from Earth, not from outer space.

U.S. News & World Report

Visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for "Storm Area 51" are from Earth, not outer space.

Vanguardia MX

No one knows the exact number of people who will go to the towns near the federal restricted area.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

The visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for “Storm Area 51” are from Earth, not outer space. The events begin Friday morning.

Salon

What is it about Americans that makes us so afraid of admitting that people ought to have free time — both for their own sake as individuals, and for the betterment of society?

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Chances are, if you've been on Facebook you've probably seen the event to Storm Area 51. UNLV junior Dylan Orlando had his eyes on it.

Newswise

He's somewhere out there: That is, Michael Ian Borer, a UNLV sociologist and pop culture expert who's available to offer context to media stories about the swelling interest in aliens and the Area 51 military base in Nevada.

Nevada Current

It’s about 2 p.m. on a Friday, an hour before closing time, and soon a stream of clients will try to squeeze into the lobby of Trac-B Exchange, the first storefront syringe exchange in Southern Nevada.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: UNLV professor Michael Ian Borer talks about the trend and people's interest in aliens in relation to the #StormArea51 phenomenon.

Yahoo!

Liliana Campos was on a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco when she got a text from her brother alerting her of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in San Bruno, California. “Be careful,” he warned.

Conversation

In 2007, the pornography website Pornhub averaged 1 million visits per day. By 2018 this had increased to 92 million visits per day – or 33.5 billion views over the course of a year.