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Pranking your intimate partner to gain clout online is not as innocent as it might seem.
With the proliferation of social media platforms, smart devices and apps, the demands on our attention have never been greater. But how is this affecting our ability to process and retain information?
A video allegedly showing a 13-year-old being assaulted in Queensland went viral online. Simply viewing such material can be a criminal offence.
Some commercial products and practices are directly linked to avoidable ill health, planetary damage, and social and health inequity. Large transnational corporations are especially to blame.
Chinese shoppers find a TikTok-style app is helpful for complaining.
What data privacy risk does TikTok pose, and what could the Chinese government do with data it collects? And is it even possible to ban an app?
My research reiterates the roles of TikTok in fostering hate speech in elections
It’s not just the likes of Gary Lineker who can get in trouble for tweeting.
TikTok has been banned from UK government devices, but it’s easy for all social media platforms to harvest your data.
Many children and adolescents fall victim to online exploitation, but there are some steps parents can take to protect their children online.
New research shows that antisemitic posts surged as the ‘free speech absolutist’ took over the social media giant. And it has settled at a higher level since.
Over the past few years, most big media organisations have updated their social media rules.
Emphasizing threats to children is a well-worn refrain among those worried about the decline of American culture and values.
The crisis has highlighted unresolved questions about the role of journalism in the age of social media.
Teenage chef Debbie commenced her decade-long tenure at the Australian Women’s Weekly in July 1954 – and her recipes could help with your ‘matrimony prospects’.
The evidence on whether TikTok poses a risk to users’ privacy and security.
Maybe you can’t have a designer kitchen. But you can still beautify your bulk food storage.
The Online News Act could result in the formation of new agreements between news organizations and digital platform giants, which could give rise to a number of worrying developments.
Addiction to social media can affect the emotional well-being of adolescents and young adults. But staying offline — even for only a few hours a day — can help.
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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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