To inform university responses to online harassment affecting graduate students, artist-researchers created original artworks in response to interviews with their peers who experienced online hate.
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The turmoil at Twitter has many people turning to an alternative, Mastodon. The social media platform does a lot of what Twitter and Facebook do, but there are key differences.
Digital activists are targeted for their work on intersectional issues. But they have developed strategies to deal with online and offline hate.
The government’s plan to make social media companies hand over trolls’ details aims to make it easier for victims to sue their harassers for defamation. But this conflates two very different concepts.
A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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