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Meta has announced third-party augmented reality filters will no longer be available on its apps as of January 2025. The removal comes far too late.
Meta has revised how teenagers will experience Instagram. It’s a win – especially if it prompts parents to talk to their kids about online safety.
Almost all online ads are now automated. And they’re becoming more and more annoying.
Lawyers for the popular video app warned of ‘staggering’ consequences for free speech if ban is allowed to happen.
Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador is days from retirement, yet his social media following continues to grow.
Last year, Australians lost more than $2.7 billion to scammers. The government’s new scam prevention framework is currently open for public consultation.
Research shows that people are shifting to social media for their news and trust in news organisations remains low – but there are signs the legacy media are adapting to the new environment.
The law makes many of the same mistakes as the government’s other recent attempts to reduce online harms.
To achieve more diverse and inclusive sport environments, it is essential to prevent and appropriately respond to gender-based violence, including incidents of online public shaming.
A thornback was seen as an unattractive and unloveable woman who had yet to find a man to save her from her predicament. We don’t need to bring the term back
The focus of media and political debates has been on teenagers and social media. But studies have shown about one in four Australian kids between eight and12 use social media too.
Experts know simply banning kids from social media isn’t going to protect them from harm – but there’s lots of evidence on what we can do instead.
In terms of paying for content and regulating content, the federal government gets a mixed report card.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said ‘parents are worried sick’ about kids and social media as he announced he would introduce a ban this year.
Some social media users are trying to stay awake for as long as possible – here’s why it’s a terrible idea
Ultimately, young people will end up using smartphones in their social and working lives.
If the government fails to pass legislation, the fallback could be a hodgepodge of state actions.
While French acknowledges possible privacy concerns, he explains why the long-time storage of personal data would be unnecessary
Instead of just banning young people from social media, the government should develop and fund better social media literacy programs for them.
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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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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
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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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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
