There is no shortage of horror stories about online shaming, but it’s not always a bad thing. It comes down to who is doing the shaming and how cohesive the online community is.
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Fixating on sleep can make your sleep worse. But some people crave the connection online sleep communities provide.
In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
Like the rest of Australia, we have been following the world cup with growing emotional intensity. From the group chat to TikTok, the online alt-commentary on the game has been a joy.
A romance writer’s bizarre fake death has gone viral. That her being alive stayed undetected for 2.5 years reminds us that our online and published personas are still separate from real life.
Members of fan communities in China participate in online activities under Chinese surveillance, but some group members are able to leverage censorship to their own ends.
Younger cancer patients have unique challenges, and resources often target older patients. Social media brings younger cancer patients together to share information, emotional support and hope.
Scuttlebutt is an entirely decentralised social network – and it shows we can learn to make the internet better.
Despite their vulnerability to co-ordinated attacks, community reviews can be a vital tool to make games better.
Mainstream medicine hasn’t yet found enough evidence-based treatments for long COVID. No wonder sufferers are turning to unproven therapies.
Users can place one pixel every five minutes: it’s collaboration at its best, destructive chaos at its worst.
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Computer Games and Associate Dean Engagement, Bond University
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Associate Professor in English Literatures, University of Wollongong
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Research Fellow, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University
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Lecturer, Griffith University
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Assistant professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Science & Medicine, Bond University
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Research Fellow in Digital Childhoods, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, School of Leadership, Royal Roads University
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Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
