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In the wake of the suicide bombing in Manchester, England, an expert on social networks explains why ties to other people help societies recover from traumatic events.
Comments like ‘little girl needs to keep to herself before daddy breaks her face’ get a free pass in the name of free speech.
Facebook should give the public more insight into how content moderation decisions are made.
Text and video ‘mining’ could be used to automatically detect violent language and behaviour.
It’s election time and all the political parties are locked in a social media battle. But does it help inform political debate or just cause even more confusion?
Junk food brands are blurring the line between advertising, entertainment and socialising.
Social media seem like a great way for new mothers to connect, but there are times when it’s depressing. Here are some reasons new mothers may want to walk away from Facebook and connect in person.
Image-based abuse, more commonly known as ‘revenge porn’, affects many Australians from across diverse communities and in different types of relationships.
And if you like someone based on their Facebook page, you’re likely to like them in the real world.
Twitter is made up of numerous communities clustered around all manner of topics. If all you see is the same, it’s time to break out of your filter bubble.
As the case of US YouTube channel DaddyOFive shows, there’s a fine line between pranking your kids and exploitation.
A host of spaces that were once immune to commercial intrusion – from parks to our friendships – are now being infiltrated by advertisers. Are we being enslaved by a ‘merciless master’?
Along with machine learning, data mining and statistics, visualisations are playing an important role in current-day data analytics.
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.
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?
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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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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana 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 & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
