The media often paints social media as a dangerous place for young people, but the reality is far more complex and nuanced.
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Breaking up is never easy, and while 20 years ago there may well have been little or no post break-up contact between exes, 21st century technology – from social media to Whatsapp – means there are many…
With three in four American voters using a smartphone, mobile devices are revolutionizing how political news is consumed – and reported.
Peeple is getting called the Yelp of rating people. The cofounders say it will be a positive place that turns character into currency. But does it make sense to rate people as we rate restaurants?
The new Labour leader wants to build on new support that swept him to power.
Kids today face a variety of digital stressors –from negotiating how much communication to have with close friends to digital abuse.
People living in their forests must be on board too – and they don’t always subscribe to Western conservation values.
Depictions of women bullying women are a mainstay of reality television shows, just as reports of Twitter fights between female celebrities are regular tabloid fare. It’s a phenomenon with a long history.
Academics are using Twitter in classrooms and finding that it leads to some real results.
You often hear it said that ‘privacy is dead’. Our cybersecurity expert explains why that’s not true, yet.
Social media like Twitter could help improve politics by providing ‘government in public’.
The social media giant says it takes online abuse seriously. But there are calls for it to do more amid reports it’s not doing enough to deal with threats or abuse.
At long last, Facebook looks on the verge of releasing an alternative to the ubiquitous ‘Like’ button. After years of users clamoring for one, here’s why the time might be right.
The Minerals Council’s new coal ad is the latest to attract derision online. But for the resources industry, the mockery may just be collateral damage in the wider mission to reach out to its supporters.
Why would a man with so much media power at his fingertips, and political power on three continents to match, choose to expose himself to the raw landscape of the Twittersphere?
In an age of radicalisation, there needs to be a radical rethinking of which stories the media tells, and how.
Public engagement of academics has increased enormously in recent decades. But this new level of engagement is producing problems and conflicts for which many academics are ill-prepared.
Social media is rewriting patterns of communication in China.
Baseless claims about the damage done to kids’ development create needless panic. And they distract from legitimate, evidence-based concerns with which parents need to engage.
A movement grew out of Michael Brown’s death one year ago. The people in #BlackLivesMatter want us to fully witness violence against black youth. Their tools are cell phones and social media.
Top contributors
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
