Researchers have found that today’s students, despite being ‘digital natives,’ have a hard time distinguishing what is real and what is fake online. Metaliteracy might provide the answers.
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Research shows the lack of diverse political views on your Facebook feed is more down to self-censorship than any algorithm.
We seem prepared to share our opinions on almost any subject today thanks to social media and other mass communication. But who is really listening?
If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they may have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election.
Online social networking technologies have been linked with increased risky sexual behaviour – and Swaziland is no different.
Cyber safety can mean a different thing for those living in remote Indigenous communities, and it needs to be managed carefully.
If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children’s lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, could they also be conned out of democracy?
When Facebook accidentally listed millions of users as “dead” in an embarrassing glitch it was a reminder that everyone needs to plan for their own digital death.
Our democratic edifice rests on the informed voter. Fake news is the concrete cancer gnawing away at the structural integrity of our society.
Technology can help identify and weed out fake news.
Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there’s something built into Facebook’s anatomy that foments partisan rage.
The US election has highlighted the waning influence of evidence-based journalism.
What can future politicians learn from the president-elect’s social media presence while on the campaign trail?
Hillary Clinton failed to unleash the power of the meme.
By tracking emotive tweets in the three weeks prior to polling day, these researchers called the election better than most pollsters.
In addition to the meddling alleged in the new Mueller indictments, about one in every five election-related tweets was generated by software, not humans.
As the torrent of carefully created social media posts to sites such as Facebook grows, who is to say which is the ‘real’ you.
While online action alone can’t solve a problem, it can be a very useful tool to mobilize people and focus attention on a crucial issue.
Facebook has banned insurance firm Admiral from using its data but research suggests it could predict if you’re a risk taker.
I like you, but won’t ‘like’ you.
Principales colaboradores
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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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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
