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Your data privacy is under threat from hackers, data brokers and big tech. Here’s what you can do about it. Step 1 is to get your colleagues, friends and family on board.
Indonesia must reduce data center energy use and promote digital responsibility to lessen environmental impact.
There was once a time when you could simply put old photos and love letters out of sight and out of mind. Editing your ex out of your digital life is a lot trickier.
Understanding the impact of the digital environment on children’s mental health requires a balanced consideration of not only the potential risks, but also the benefits of the online world.
The study found most use Tinder casually because they’re bored, playing with the app like a kind of smartphone game - even though many use it to find true love.
The age of ‘artificial intimacy’ is upon us. What does it mean for the way we love, have sex and build friendships?
Online abuse is often dismissed as “just online.” But the rise of QAnon and similar groups demonstrates the very real consequences of online speech.
Every day, the internet fills up with more and more dead people while our ability to reanimate them grows. The dead are more robust and more vulnerable — and we’re not ready for any of this.
During lockdowns, we live our lives through our screens. Here, tech experts share their tips on when - and how - to switch off.
Nigeria must give more attention to teaching of digital skills and issues surrounding digital life as digital technologies have come to stay.
For economically strapped Americans, the financial fallout from the epidemic may be permanently embedded in their digital profiles, making it harder for them to regain their economic footing.
Technology has made life under coronavirus workable and bearable for a great many. But will it mean further intrusions into our privacy that normally would be unacceptable?
As social distancing continues, we’ve increasingly incorporated online and digital communications into our social life. But these technologies can’t compensate for body language or touch.
Photographic works drawn from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection explore fakery, mirrors and tricks of the light. But Shadow Catchers stops short of today’s digital doppelgangers.
There is heavy social media use among both the most lonely and least lonely people. So what exactly is the relationship between social media use and loneliness?
As the head of a media and communications program, my life’s digital-analogue balance was off. Four weeks at sea with no devices refocussed my views – even on things that had been there all along.
Smee insists that the rich and intense visions of artists such as Cézanne or Chekhov are increasingly lost to us.
If we’re keeping him, it’s time to reinvent James Bond for the digital post-Weinstein age.
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Media Studies and Production, University of Cape Town
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Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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