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To understand the wide array of information in today’s world, we need a different kind of literacy. Some researchers call that ‘metaliteracy.’
How a social media campaign is revealing more about the good, and bad, in the industry.
As the Calais crisis unfolds, social media is becoming an echo chamber for the preferences of the UK’s powerful right wing.
Shouting past each other via different kinds of media isn’t going to help researchers – from éminences grises to new postdocs – effectively work together on issues in the field of science.
Services like Facebook and YouTube may have the upper hand when it comes to getting people to give up cigarettes.
We need political and civil society leaders to reflect on the language that they use, and to strive to shape a civic narrative with which we can all engage.
Jim Carrey’s anti-vaccination tweets employ a number of techniques used by anti-science cranks. By understanding them, we can shield ourselves from well-intentioned but ill-informed voices.
Hockey v Fairfax illustrates that recent legal and technological developments still pose challenges for defamation law, which has not been reformed to keep pace with these changes.
While the traditional media peddles sexist stereotypes, social media is leading the charge for equality.
Tackling extremist and terrorist propaganda online is vital, but must be done with safeguards in mind.
When what Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt intended as an after dinner speech was made public he suffered the consequences, as have several others before him.
Sir Tim Hunt’s careless comments about women in the lab may have proven a boon to feminism in science by attracting attention to sexism in science.
On Human Experiments – behavioural research is now big online, and you’re likely to be part of it whether you know it or not.
The rock promoter thinks festivals are on the way out. But he couldn’t be further from the truth.
A war of words is being waged on social media by terrorist groups trying to recruit Australian teenagers to join the fight in the Middle East.
As social media slices and dices us into profile view rankings, numbers of likes and retweets, and follower engagement data, we constantly reflect on and recalibrate our digital selves.
Simplistic views of terrorist recruitment focus on online messages to Western youth. Foreign fighters are coming from many other countries, lured by many means, and we need more sophisticated responses.
Facebook earned $3.6 billion in ad revenue last year. According to recent research, for advertisers this might not be money well-spent.
The recent sacking of an SBS journalist for controversial statements made on social media could inspire self-censorship amongst journalists.
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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
