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New research reveals the digital divide that was exposed by the COVID pandemic.
Educators need to carefully consider ChatGPT and issues of academic integrity to move toward an assessment system that leverages AI tools.
The huge gathering of policymakers focused on culture’s crucial role in sustainable development.
Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
We’re seeing a new wave of politicians embracing social media – and often this means a departure from a serious demeanour to one that’s more wilfully strange, awkward and dramatic.
Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
Stanford researcher Lucy Bernholz is re-imagining what philanthropy looks like and is trying to understand how average people create, fund and distribute shared social goods in the digital age.
Parents who spy on their children’s online activity run the risk of doing more harm than good, an expert says.
A video of Ahmaud Arbery was widely seen and shared by the citizens who could be called on to judge the accused killers. The issue was recently argued before the Supreme Court.
Media houses with digital and traditional newsrooms need to create collaborative environments to address the tensions that often emerge between the old and the new.
If this is just one experiment among of tens of thousands, as Google has admitted, in what other ways might users have been manipulated in the past?
In an age of democracy via social media, platforms are struggling to combat visual mis/disinformation such as ‘spliced’ images and deepfakes. Digital media literacy has never been so important.
The upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 2 is almost three-quarters screen. And while that’s convenient, it’s important to actually be able to hold the phone. As design evolves, how do manufacturers adapt?
Debate is raging as to whether Uganda can hold a scientific election, preceded by mass media and digital campaigns.
Nigeria must give more attention to teaching of digital skills and issues surrounding digital life as digital technologies have come to stay.
While more people are using the internet and social media during the pandemic, they aren’t entirely happy with what they see.
Last year saw the first cohort of English literature students who were born in or beyond 2000 – the so-called digital generation. I wanted to know whether the classics still affected their lives.
Most students think they know how to use the internet to search for information, and teachers agree. But this isn’t always the case.
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Professor of Digital Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in African Studies and International Development, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct Professor, Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor of English and New Media, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
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Engaged Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Early Childhood Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural HIstory and Theory, UNSW & Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Molecular Evolution, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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DVC Innovation & Enterprise, University of Technology Sydney
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Economist, Data61, CSIRO
