How can we make sense of information in today’s connected world?
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Researchers have found that today’s students, despite being ‘digital natives,’ have a hard time distinguishing what is real and what is fake online. Metaliteracy might provide the answers.
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Research shows the lack of diverse political views on your Facebook feed is more down to self-censorship than any algorithm.
So much to say, but who’s paying attention?
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We seem prepared to share our opinions on almost any subject today thanks to social media and other mass communication. But who is really listening?
Unlike Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump did not give a subculture a corporate, establishment sheen by appropriating it.
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If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they may have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election.
There is a link between online social networking technologies and increased risky sexual behaviour.
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Online social networking technologies have been linked with increased risky sexual behaviour – and Swaziland is no different.
Smartphones and other devices are popular in indigenous communities throughout Australia.
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Cyber safety can mean a different thing for those living in remote Indigenous communities, and it needs to be managed carefully.
Sharing election hashtags: Dots are Twitter accounts; lines show retweeting; larger dots are retweeted more. Red dots are likely bots; blue ones are likely humans.
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If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children’s lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, could they also be conned out of democracy?
Not dead yet, Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
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When Facebook accidentally listed millions of users as “dead” in an embarrassing glitch it was a reminder that everyone needs to plan for their own digital death.
Facebook has committed to remedial action over its ‘fake news’ problem.
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Our democratic edifice rests on the informed voter. Fake news is the concrete cancer gnawing away at the structural integrity of our society.
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Technology can help identify and weed out fake news.
Facebook has received a lot of scrutiny since the presidential election.
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Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there’s something built into Facebook’s anatomy that foments partisan rage.
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The US election has highlighted the waning influence of evidence-based journalism.
Trumpisms at your fingertips.
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What can future politicians learn from the president-elect’s social media presence while on the campaign trail?
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.
Hillary Clinton failed to unleash the power of the meme.
Twitter told it.
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By tracking emotive tweets in the three weeks prior to polling day, these researchers called the election better than most pollsters.
Who’s behind that Twitter feed?
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In addition to the meddling alleged in the new Mueller indictments, about one in every five election-related tweets was generated by software, not humans.
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As the torrent of carefully created social media posts to sites such as Facebook grows, who is to say which is the ‘real’ you.
Many people wanted to virtually join the protest.
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While online action alone can’t solve a problem, it can be a very useful tool to mobilize people and focus attention on a crucial issue.
What do you mean, risk-taker?
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Facebook has banned insurance firm Admiral from using its data but research suggests it could predict if you’re a risk taker.
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I like you, but won’t ‘like’ you.