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.
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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, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Science & Medicine, Bond University
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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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Research Fellow in Digital Childhoods, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, School of Leadership, Royal Roads University
