In China, social media is being censored to reflect pro-Russian sentiment, making it impossible to gauge public opinion of Chinese people on the Russian invasion.
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The system behind apps like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp isn’t neutral. It encodes political communication, influencing what users see.
Internet infrastructure disruption, targeted cyberattacks and the manipulation of disinformation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine all show that warfare now includes cyberwar strategies.
People used social media to connect with others, but after the pandemic, social media is increasingly fractured. Users adopt closed media spaces where they feel safe to express personal values.
TikTok is a new strategic tool for propagandists to push for political narrative during the electoral period.
For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the app has been a key point-of-contact for communication with his own people and the rest of the world.
People should be more careful before making conclusions from what appears on social media.
Rather than preserving freedom of expression, the interpretation of ‘harm’ in the online safety bill could have the opposite effect.
While the ACCC failed in a similar case against Google in 2013, there are some key details in this one which could give it more leverage.
The government is proposing upheavals to online content regulation, but that won’t be enough to make the internet safer.
Increased media literacy education and government regulations are necessary to combat fake information on social media platforms.
To think about the ways in which images engage audiences, we can consider Europe’s response to two major refugee crises.
Discord was initially a service to let gamers voice and text chat while playing. Most of its current users build and maintain online communities, though not always very big ones.
Government Twitter accounts are dodging restrictions on state-backed media to churn out disinformation.
As an actor and performer, Zelensky built his portfolio of presidential skills long before he knew he was going to undertake that role.
Latest figures show antisemitism in the UK is on the rise, with new expressions of anti-Jewish hatred merely reviving older ones.
How do a country and its citizens deal with the trauma of a deadly invasion by an enemy? Memes, cats and TikToks are emerging – most recently in the Ukraine war – as a way to cope with tragedy.
Many well-intentioned people are supporting counterproductive efforts to help Ukraine. Behavioural science can explain why.
The vacuum created by a drop in public trust in mainstream platforms has given rise to new media players who don’t always play by the rules.
How Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future upended the rules of environmental activism.
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
