Messaging for the April 29 People’s Climate March is stressing collective resistance against President Trump. This theme may appeal to activists, but is unlikely to grow the movement.
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Simply copying Snapchat might not be enough to keep the biggest social network relevant.
Twitter recently blew up with posts wondering about the feline fascination with taped squares on the ground. An animal behavior expert explains it’s not magic that draws Fluffy to the #CatSquare.
Will recent photos of chemical attack victims in Syria provoke a short-term emotional reaction or a sustained humanitarian campaign?
Incidents that may have been mere hiccups a few years ago today can go viral in an instant, causing a massive backlash and leaving some of the biggest companies wrong-footed.
Are we really filtering out our ability to cope with our own imperfections?
Algorithms can’t sort out the truth from the dross. People must become more social media savvy.
In Russia, social networks have given a new life to the conspiracy theory that HIV-AIDS is a global hoax.
Even though Facebook claims to be a global community, its rise has come at the expense of online subcultures for marginalized people, from body modification enthusiasts to drag queens.
Cyber abuse between intimate partners is common and devastating – there needs to be a greater focus on holding perpetrators to account.
The Conversation Global examines the varied ways that governments around the world rely on digital tools to exercise power.
They have some big ideas.
When leaders of weak democracies use social media to connect with their constituents, people feel heard. But Twitter responses won’t give citizens what they need.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi knows how to use social media in politics. But the rest of his government? Not so much.
Forget old-school state propaganda. Kazakhstan’s government has reinvented itself through social media.
While Facebook’s Zuckerberg suggested as much recently, companies run like autocracies cannot fulfill technology’s promise of reinvigorating the democratic process.
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?
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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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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana 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 & 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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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
