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Kenya’s medical workers have downed tools, demanding the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2013.
Images of attractive celebrities, friends and acquaintances on social media affect women’s body image and mood, new research shows. But what can we do about it?
How you use social media can provide warning signs of depression or anxiety.
Bringing back the diminished tradition of eating lunch together may be the solution.
Long before smartphones filmed the stiffened appendages of people seeking internet fame, striking a pose was a popular form of entertainment in Victorian England.
Researcher who has studied online news for 20 years says people fall for fake news because they don’t value journalistic sources and consider themselves and their friends as credible news sources.
Plus-size models are in vogue – and it’s about time, too.
Social media communication like Twitter can influence investor decisions in an unequal way and whether the company intends it or not, research finds.
Researchers have found that today’s students, despite being ‘digital natives,’ have a hard time distinguishing what is real and what is fake online. Metaliteracy might provide the answers.
Research shows the lack of diverse political views on your Facebook feed is more down to self-censorship than any algorithm.
We seem prepared to share our opinions on almost any subject today thanks to social media and other mass communication. But who is really listening?
If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they may have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election.
Online social networking technologies have been linked with increased risky sexual behaviour – and Swaziland is no different.
Cyber safety can mean a different thing for those living in remote Indigenous communities, and it needs to be managed carefully.
If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children’s lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, could they also be conned out of democracy?
When Facebook accidentally listed millions of users as “dead” in an embarrassing glitch it was a reminder that everyone needs to plan for their own digital death.
Our democratic edifice rests on the informed voter. Fake news is the concrete cancer gnawing away at the structural integrity of our society.
Technology can help identify and weed out fake news.
Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there’s something built into Facebook’s anatomy that foments partisan rage.
Top contributors
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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
