While Facebook’s Zuckerberg suggested as much recently, companies run like autocracies cannot fulfill technology’s promise of reinvigorating the democratic process.
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Can social media create opportunities to identify and challenge government pitfalls and problematic policies?
Giving is changing, moving more into the online realm and taking on different forms – and some charities are struggling to keep up.
How do you know your search results or social media feeds aren’t being manipulated for political purposes? It’s not a crime to do so. But we believe it should be.
This is election year for several African countries and there’s a need to ensure social media isn’t used to incite violence. But can governments be prevented from restricting citizens’ rights?
Demand has surged for Snapchat’s stock but the loss-making company’s long-term success is far from certain.
Social media use is weakly associated with depressed mood in the young, but it’s not clear which way cause and effect runs.
You might think that trolling on the internet is done by a small, vocal minority of sociopaths. But what if all trolls aren’t born trolls? What if they are ordinary people like you and me?
Part of HUD’s budget goes to improving American cities. Social media monitoring offers a novel way to judge if that money is being well spent.
In Africa, the idea of a post-truth era - which by implication fundamentally presupposes the existence of an era in which ‘truth’ was self-evident - is folly.
The Facebook CEO’s vision for a digital future still needs a little work.
The idea of white victimhood played an important part in Donald Trump’s rise. The South African brand of white supremacy has made a tangible contribution to this narrative of victimhood.
Alternative facts owe more to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than Orwell’s 1984.
YouTube star PewDiePie has recently lashed out at ‘the media’, but he’s as much as part of the media today as any newspaper or website.
Facebook Live – and other live-video streaming services – change how we bear witness to events, and challenge how we think about visual information.
Foxtel’s high-priced oligopolistic control over Australian pay TV has again clashed with the demands of sport fans and the increasingly sophisticated capture and relay technologies available to them.
You might think you’re anonymous when you’re browsing the web. But a new study shows that browsing history can often be tied to your real-world identity.
Donald Trump is reinventing the royal fiat by novel means: the rule-by-tweet, or ‘twiat’. This move is not an extension of popular democracy, but its enemy, and it needs to be resisted.
US foreign relations have gone online. And the results are not looking good.
Social networks built on blockchain technology, such as Steemit, promise a far more democratic experience.
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