Ubiquitous social media giant Facebook has launched a mobile service called Instant Articles. It allows news stories provided by a number of partners to be read in their entirety from the Facebook iOS…
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Checking online reviews is a big part of shopping. But review sites can be manipulated. Does favoring reviews posted by your social media contacts help with trustworthy, meaningful content?
Guns will be allowed on public universities in Texas from August 1. Given the recent incident of a student shooting the professor and then himself, reportedly over grades, are there reasons to worry?
Ever felt depressed just from scrolling through Facebook? This might be why.
The media giant is kidding itself – and us – if it doesn’t think it’s in the news business.
Snowden’s surveillance revelations threaten to shatter a 15-year-old US-EU agreement on data protection, with consequences for major internet firms.
Social media companies and the law are both beginning to seriously combat revenge porn.
Because a photograph came from a machine – not a human hand – many were not entirely sure if it could be called art.
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. So said Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years. Now that we spend so much time online, our digital…
Did you recently buy a Samsung smart TV? If you are worried about privacy, you may be wondering how smart that decision was following the manufacturer’s warnings that its voice-activated televisions may…
Researchers, journalists writing about research, and young people themselves have been writing about the perceived decline of Facebook for a while now. Young people are leaving Facebook in droves; Facebook…
Checking social networks is a morning ritual for many, and when that routine is disrupted – as it was recently when Facebook’s servers went down – its absence can come as a surprise. But what also becomes…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s announcement of a knighthood for Prince Philip on Australia Day sparked both a mainstream and social media storm. But Abbott’s response to this backlash, when he casually dismissed…
Despite the importance of the internet to contemporary society, according to the ITU only 42% of the world’s population are online. That leaves 4.3 billion people without the internet, of which 90% live…
Across the world, workers in many firms have started using social networks to transform their internal communications. Now, tapping into this, Facebook has created Facebook at Work. Much like the original…
Two of Scotland’s leading politicians illustrate an interesting phenomenon on Twitter. In the wake of the Scottish National Party’s surge in popularity following the independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon…
Pretty much all of us work with computers these days. The problem with computers is that while they can complete complex calculations and recall distant details, they’re terrible at sensing how you’re…
With somewhere in the region of 1.3 billion users, Facebook is the largest ever internet social engagement phenomenon. With so many people interconnected through the site, information can speedily propagate…
Facebook’s recent apology for its Year in Review feature, which had displayed to a grieving father images of his dead daughter, highlights again the tricky relationship between the social media behemoth…
It’s the stuff of nightmares: your intimate images are leaked and posted online by somebody you thought you could trust. But in Australia, victims often have no real legal remedy for this kind of abuse…
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Senior research associate, University of Sydney
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Communications (Social Media), Syracuse University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Convergent and Online Media, University of Sydney
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
