The strengths of social media are also its weaknesses. Facebook must acknowledge that it has transformed from a startup company into a powerful social force.
The tasks of fatherhood are changing, but society’s expectations haven’t caught up. Many dads use online discussion groups, blogs and videos to explore their new identities.
To help with the rebuilding of Syria, we need to curb the rising tide of xenophobia online. Syrian refugees get ready to cross back into war-torn Syria from the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, June 28, 2018.
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One of the World Bank’s mandates is to prepare for the physical and human capital reconstructions of post-conflict Syria. But an image reconstruction of Syrians and of Syrian refugees is also needed
Data scientists mapped the online behavior of Facebook users in Brazil, the US and Argentina. The result is a startling visual portrayal of just how deeply polarized these nations have become.
Angela Williamson was sacked by Cricket Australia because of tweets criticising Tasmanian government policy.
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Williamson’s sacking over a tweet reveals not only problems with social media policies and freedom of speech, but the pervasive masculinity of sporting organisations.
What happens when an entire society succumbs to childlike behavior and discourse?
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Our social institutions and politics suffer from a collective arrested development – and our relationship to technology has only exacerbated this trend.
Social media has become a powerful platform to cope with grief.
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PT HM Sampoerna/Philip Morris International uses creativity and empowerment messages through social media to market their cigarettes to a younger audience.
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The tobacco industry in Indonesia can still advertise cigarettes on television, radio and billboards. Now it’s using popular social media channels too.
Some young people are getting into credit card debt to achieve the ideal lives they see portrayed on social media.
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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.
A Flickr image of a seal taken at Scotland’s Forvie nature reserve.
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Social media data can reveal where people are watching nature – and consequently where animals may be under pressure.
President Donald Trump delivers a lot of information through Twitter. Here he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, March 2018.
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Networks of keywords are analyzed in Donald Trump’s tweets from 2015 to the present.
Police at the scene of a shooting in Toronto’s Greektown on July 23, 2018. The parents of Faisal Hussain, whose shooting spree left two people dead and 13 injured, say their son had struggled all his life with psychosis and depression, but none of the medications or therapies he tried were able to overcome his mental illness.
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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.
India has become the world leader in selfie-related accidental deaths.
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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.