Children can’t handle watching livestreamed massacres – and adults shouldn’t have to.
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Text and video ‘mining’ could be used to automatically detect violent language and behaviour.
Dr James Brown answered questions on Facebook Live from how much exercise you need to what you should eat afterwards.
After witnessing a streamed suicide, users could sue for emotional harm. But it’s tricky to prove – and even trickier to hold Facebook accountable.
Facebook Live – and other live-video streaming services – change how we bear witness to events, and challenge how we think about visual information.
Foxtel’s high-priced oligopolistic control over Australian pay TV has again clashed with the demands of sport fans and the increasingly sophisticated capture and relay technologies available to them.
Tragic and violent events are increasingly being live streamed to the world. Are we learning something from these graphic visuals – or are we wallowing in voyeurism and confirming our prejudices?
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Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University
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Former Honorary Research Associate, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor in Biology and Biomedical Science, Aston University
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Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
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Senior Lecturer in Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor of Communications (Social Media), Syracuse University
