Almost everybody uses the internet just about every day. But do you really know what the internet is?
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AI chatbots can’t take responsibility for what they say, so we shouldn’t trust them.
Addiction to social media can affect the emotional well-being of adolescents and young adults. But staying offline — even for only a few hours a day — can help.
Web3 has become a catch-all term for the next iteration of the internet. But what does it mean exactly?
Hoax websites are becoming more popular with fraudsters. So it’s more important than ever to protect yourself.
Justices are weighing the arguments in two cases that have the potential of changing the way social media platforms operate.
Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
Lateral reading, self-nudging and a persistent refusal to feed the trolls are some of the ways one can better manage information.
Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
With sexism embedded into today’s social media landscape, it’s easy to ignore that conversations about equality can benefit both men and women.
What’s true and what’s not? An expert in media literacy explains how to evaluate information.
Ghanaians aren’t using the new ‘smart’ street address system which was intended to improve service delivery.
Only a small percentage of women in rural areas have access to the Internet, so participation in online activism is limited to urban centres.
People are puzzled when they learn they share the same false memories with others. That’s partly because they assume that what they remember and forget ought to be based only on personal experience.
Ensuring that billions of dollars of federal funding for broadband service are well spent – and that consumers get what they pay for – comes down to knowing the actual speeds internet users experience.
Scuttlebutt is an entirely decentralised social network – and it shows we can learn to make the internet better.
Starlink has plans to connect phones, planes and even cruises to its space satellites. But there are hold-ups.
Parents and teenager have the best chance of cracking internet addiction when adults acknowledge they have a problem too.
Dissociation can be a healthy part of cognitive functioning, provided it doesn’t get in the way of your goals.
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Parental controls and surveillance have their place but internal safeguards like empathy, resilience and values serve children throughout their lives, whether online or offline.
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Laureate Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor and Neustadt Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Deputy Dean Research at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne
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Directeur de la Recherche et des Formations Doctorales, Directeur adjoint, Télécom SudParis – Institut Mines-Télécom
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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