In The News: Department of Sociology

Las Vegas Sun

Transgender adult model Sabina Steele lost her job at Starbucks in July 2020 and had to act quickly to overcome the income loss.

Las Vegas Sun

Las Vegas could be at risk of being used as a platform for spreading misinformation by far-right extremists who have openly called for the insurrection and participated in the failed coup in Washington.

Desert Companion

What compels people to line up to buy beer?

TechRadar

Will OnlyFans survive without its sexual content?

Nevada Independent

Visitors to UNLV’s Black Fire Innovation research institute will find much of what they might expect inside a 15,000-square foot showroom dedicated to newly created products for the gaming and hospitality industries.

Nevada Independent

Visitors to UNLV’s Black Fire Innovation research institute will find much of what they might expect inside a 15,000-square foot showroom dedicated to newly created products for the gaming and hospitality industries.

Inverse

For the first 15 years of her life, Daniella Mestyanek Young’s entire world was The Family.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Southern Nevada’s economy has been on a major rebound, with stimulus money and pent-up demand for leisure and travel helping fuel a record period of revenue and gaming win along the Strip corridor.

The Verge

Digital fan clubs are turning into single-purpose social networks

The Chronicle of Higher Education

College leaders should be ready for protests, provocations, and lone attacks, experts say.

Nevada Independent

Less than five years after bringing the NFL’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, Southern Nevada is dancing with Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics, the Northern California city’s last professional sports franchise, which is seeking to flee the crumbling Oakland Coliseum for possibly a new multi-billion stadium in the desert.

AlterNet

Ammon Bundy became infamous in 2014 when he was involved in an armed standoff with federal officials in Nevada, where his father, rancher Cliven Bundy, refused to pay grazing fees.