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When young adults create and share online content focused on consumer products, it can trigger a social comparison process that results in feelings of inferiority and low self-esteem.
Social media data can reveal where people are watching nature – and consequently where animals may be under pressure.
Networks of keywords are analyzed in Donald Trump’s tweets from 2015 to the present.
Social media abhors informational vacuums and speed eclipses accuracy. That allows pseudo-experts, agitators and even liars to circulate rumours and poisonous information when big news breaks.
As authorities crack down on selfies and social media, the underlying causes of conflict and potential to use social media to bring about positive social change are overlooked.
Zimbabwe’s upcoming elections potentially marks the start of a new order in the country, where the stakes are extremely high.
Three trends suggest people in less developed nations – who are coming online in greater numbers – use and trust the internet very differently those in more developed economies.
As we all become mini publishers, we are losing the interactivity that fosters meaningful and healthy social interaction.
Social media is a great tool for activists campaigning for social justice. But if it is not used with caution it can end up working against them.
Scientists have never been more needed to challenge division, misinformation and harassment online.
Croatia lost to France but has won unprecedented public exposure.
Many factors can influence people to evacuate or stay in place when disasters threaten. New research using Facebook posts suggests that people with broad social networks are more apt to move.
Fans are shifting their consumption of the World Cup online.
The broader nature of today’s pro-choice movements show that a specific injustice can be a vehicle for highlighting wider social inequalities.
Something good could come from the Cambridge Analytica scandal if we used the same data to fix society, rather than profit from it.
The Canadian government is right to hold public consultations on digital and data transformation given how profoundly it affects society at large. But the scope is far too narrow.
Trust is the keystone of the entire Internet system: without it more connection and therefore more commerce. How to restore it?
Companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to take down terrorist propaganda.
Twitter posts and messages on WhatsApp can come back to haunt you, even years later.
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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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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 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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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
