Would you pay to browse Facebook or Instagram without ads?
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Meta’s decision to charge users for an ad-free experience still requires that people have their information collected.
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Learning about the world from live events is the next step for AI.
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Social media platforms are abandoning news – which is bad news for traditional media organisations that have come to rely on them for consumers.
An agreement reached between Google and the federal government means the search engine will pay $100 million annually to Canadian media outlets.
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Google has secured significant concessions in its deal with Ottawa over Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which comes into effect on Dec. 19.
Parents can model good media habits, like using online tools to connect with family and friends.
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Researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 17 Philadelphia parents about how their family uses digital media. Here they offer tips to promote healthy, balanced media habits for kids.
Citizens have sometimes been surprised to find public officials blocking people from viewing their social media feeds.
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The Supreme Court will hear five cases this term that will examine the nature of online discussion spaces run by social media platforms.
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Facebook and Instagram users in some parts of the world can now pay for an ad-free experience – but at what price?
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Our research is the first to estimate what the tech giants owe publishers. The actual sums paid out are usually covered by non-disclosure agreements.
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The plaintiffs claims features such as ‘infinite scroll’ leave users less likely to be able to exercise self-control.
Content moderators like these workers make decisions about online communities based on company dictates.
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In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
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Our research has found the ‘yes’ side has been generating the lion’s share of Voice content in the media and social media over the past six weeks, but is still trailing in the polls.
A revolution in Canadian communication funding policy is not only possible, it is necessary.
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Meta’s blocking of Canadian news reveals how reliant Canada’s media industry is on the U.S. The government must create a better funding model to provide support for Canadian media.
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In this podcast, ANU Vice Chancellor and astrophysicist Brian Schmidt joins The Conversation to discuss the challenges universities are facing
Vehicles line-up for fuel at Fort Providence, N.W.T., on the only road south from Yellowknife, Aug. 17, 2023.
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Social media has been vital for disseminating information during crises, but with Facebook’s ban of news in Canada, old-school media, especially radio, is critically important.
The Canadian government is trying to make big tech companies such as Google and Meta pay for news content.
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A new law in Canada attempts to force big tech to pay for the news stories on its sites. But big tech isn’t playing ball, which is a huge problem for journalism.
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Meta’s open source strategy contrasts starkly with the more guarded approach of its primary competitor, OpenAI
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Foreign interference campaigns have targeted every major social media platform in Australia. But to date, nobody has been prosecuted for this.
So far, Twitter’s rebrand = X + why?
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A scholar of design who researches brand campaigns critiques the social media platform’s new look.
Meta’s Threads platform experienced a significant drop in users recently.
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The recent declines of Threads and ChatGPT attest to the reality that rapid and widespread acceptance doesn’t necessarily lead to long-term success.
Threads is the latest social media platform to try to take on Twitter.
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In the marketplace of ideas, for an app or product to be considered successful, it must be widely adopted for it to represent an innovation.