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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.
West London group 1011 music group have been banned from making music without police permission.
The news media routinely 'beats up' shark stories in search of clicks and profits, according to focus groups and surveys of social media posts.
Social media can act as the engine room for public engagement with refugees, allowing people to move beyond 'I should do something' to 'I will take action'.
Information on social media can be misleading because of biases in three places – the brain, society and algorithms. Scholars are developing ways to identify and display the effects of these biases.
A snap poll intended to boost the Turkish president's power has stirred up online opposition to his increasing authoritarianism.
It may be because we're early adopters and know the risks of social media, but a new study has found Australians are particularly careful about expressing political views online.
There is a reason why you can't put your phone down: digital addiction. And technology is designed to keep you hooked.
It could seem attractive to try to teach computers to detect harassment, threats and abusive language. But it's much more difficult than it might appear.
Top contributors
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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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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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Visiting Professor of Practice (Journalism), City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Media Psychology, University of Salford
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PhD candidate researching governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Director of Research, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, School of Journalism, Columbia University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia
