The creation of social media accounts based on fictional models raises pointed questions about race, representation and commodification.
Workers congregate in a meeting room at the headquarters of BlueCity, the parent company of Blued, China’s most popular dating app for gay men.
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A recent TikTok trend involved people impersonating Holocaust victims. This has sparked questions about how to ethically use testimony in digital media.
Research suggests the impact of dating apps depends on your local dating culture – and that varies hugely around the world.
President Donald Trump visits the El Paso Regional Communications Center after meeting with people affected by the El Paso mass shooting, Aug. 7, 2019.
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Stop blaming video games for violent acts, a digital culture expert says. Instead, look to the link with public health to help us deal with a complicated culture of violence.
Fanfiction: all it takes is to imagine a story beyond the canonical work.
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Beginning about 20 years ago, the internet placed almost the entirety of human creation in an unguarded window display and said, in effect, help yourself. But that’s not to say all illegal downloaders are the same.
Blogger and media critic Anita Sarkeesian in a Feminist Frequency video.
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Cyberhate would deny women their full democratic rights as citizens, yet this is trivialised and dismissed – just as sexual violence, discrimination and workplace harassment have been for decades.
Governments need to focus their counter-terrorism strategies on strengthening community relations and trust.
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Despite significant budgetary constraints, the government announced in Tuesday’s budget that a further A$450 million in counter-terrorism strategies. But something significant is lacking in its approach.
Many people fear technology, and have great reservations about kids using smartphones and computers.
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Many people fear technology is making us dumber, and they have great reservations about children using smartphones or computers. But technology ought to be embraced, particularly by kids.
Floppies: storage that’s about as reliable as a CD used as a frisbee.
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“The internet is forever.” So goes a saying regarding the impossibility of removing material – such as stolen photographs – permanently from the web. Yet paradoxically the vast and growing digital sphere…
Australian creators understand that digital distribution is changing their industries – but they’re still materially affected by copyright infringement.
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Music is no longer a treasured experience between artist and audience, people want easy consumption and access – Australian musician/ songwriter. Australian creators have been severely affected both financially…
Critics looking to make sense of Australian screen culture might do well to leave the cinemas and check out YouTube.
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Weirdness is one of the most distinctive features of Aussie cinema. From Jim Sharman’s kooky debut feature Shirley Thompson Versus The Aliens (1972) to the sublime spookiness of Picnic at Hanging Rock…
CEO of Cowlick Entertainment Group, Film Grit and marketing research agencies Screen Audience Research Australia (SARA) and House of Brand, Australian Film, Television and Radio School