The video-sharing platform may connect to our innate mental systems for physically copying one another
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Social media
Displaying 861 - 880 of 1964 articles
Research suggests the impact of dating apps depends on your local dating culture – and that varies hugely around the world.
In the Southeast US, tornadoes strike at night more often than in other regions. This poses special challenges for getting early warnings to the public.
Precocious social media users want to use technology to change the world.
Facebook’s algorithms are designed to encourage reminiscence and reconnection. But in the wake of a breakup, we don’t always want those things.
By providing users with pertinent and reliable disaster-related information, Twitter has the potential to reduce the impact of a disaster. So why aren’t public organizations using it properly?
A psychologist explains how to reestablish civil political conversation in your own life.
As the 2020 elections near and disinformation campaigns ramp up, an expert on media literacy offers advice you can use to develop habits to exert more conscious control over your news intake.
New laws in Albania show one approach to dealing with disinformation – and highlight some pitfalls of selective regulation.
Social media platforms are increasingly offering mental health support tools to users. The jury is still out on whether it will do any good
Images without context or presented with text that misrepresents what they show can be a powerful tool of misinformation, especially since photos make statements seem more believable.
Save the Children’s reputation appeared to bounce back faster than Oxfam’s after public perception of both groups soured around the same time.
As cities have shut down and residential compounds have issued curfews, social media in China have become more important than ever. But it is a place of rumours and mistruths.
Misinformation spreads fast when people are afraid and a contagious and potentially fatal disease is frightening. This provides the ideal emotionally charged context for rumours to thrive.
Social psychologists investigated why Facebook users post profile pics of themselves with a romantic partner and how those online displays are interpreted by others.
Doctor Who has always been progressive – but now it appears it’s a little too ‘ woke’ for many of its fans.
Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the 2019-nCoV outbreak, is now under lockdown. What does that mean for its 11 million citizens, and for the rest of the world?
Social media has allowed researchers around the world to collaborate and co-ordinate their efforts to fight the outbreak and contain its spread.
New research has identified the main triggers of this psychological phenomenon, the contexts in which it happens and the types of fears involved in it.
Algorithmic forces fuel cancel culture. Paradoxically, they’re also used to rehabilitate those who have been canceled.
Top contributors
-
Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
-
Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
-
Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
-
Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
-
Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
-
Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
-
Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
-
Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
-
Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
-
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
-
Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
-
Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
-
Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
