While the internet and social media have changed young Nigerians’ communication styles and even language, they have not reduced communication.
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Online organizing is vital to the success of offline social justice campaigns. Executing digital campaigns exposes activists to attacks, but there are steps they can take to protect themselves.
The platform also took down another 2,000 communities, including left-leaning groups. The move comes just months ahead of the 2020 US presidential election.
If teenagers organizing on social media can hamper a presidential campaign rally, how challenging is it to manipulate elections?
The study examined patterns of Twitter rage in hot and cold weather. Given anger spreads through online communities faster than any other emotions, the findings are important.
The likes of Katie Hopkins may be slowly disappearing from social media sites but less extreme and obvious racism is still widespread.
A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.
The technology isn’t the problem – conspiracy theories were around long before the internet.
Popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram fail to protect children from the marketing tactics of junk food advertisers. This needs to change.
Nigeria must give more attention to teaching of digital skills and issues surrounding digital life as digital technologies have come to stay.
How did one student’s anti-BBC social media campaign take off so rapidly?
A largely wordless social media protest allowed many to take a political stand who might otherwise have stayed aloof
False news about 5G spread at breakneck speed on social networks, reinforcing the fears of people who already had suspicions about its effects on health.
The NSW Court of Appeal’s Dylan Voller decision means the media may be liable for the hurtful things users write on social pages. This will have many media companies in a panic.
While more people are using the internet and social media during the pandemic, they aren’t entirely happy with what they see.
The US president is punishing Twitter for using a factcheck to point out that one of his tweets is incorrect.
Indigenous communities are connecting over digital communities to survive and resist.
The US has a centuries-old tradition of killing black people without repercussion – and of publicly viewing the violence. Spreading those images can disrespect the dead and traumatize viewers.
A survey shows respondents who used Instagram for political information during the 2019 federal election were more likely to interact with people they knew, not political accounts.
WFH? It seems a lot of people have quickly become used to it.
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