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As austerity bites, people are turning to social media for help with mental issues. Despite the fact that even Facebook agrees social media can be bad for mental health.
The law around 'sexting' needs to be overhauled as the way young people communicate changes and evolves.
It's widely accepted that young people living in children's homes or foster care are vulnerable to mental illness, but new research shows that social media can actually help.
Social media can act like an online CV, so be careful what you share.
Sociologists know what conditions make it more likely a mass delusion will take hold and spread through a group – whether adherence to a fashion fad or belief in a doomsday cult.
The way people use social media – and the algorithms inside those systems – increases passions, and drives people to polarizing extremes.
Parents can cause privacy problems by oversharing their child's pictures online.
Australian Twitter users largely ignored news from Syria, North Korea and other trouble spots in June, focussing instead on domestic politics.
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Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Jayne and Hans Hufschmid Chair in Strategic Public Relations and Business Communication, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Associate Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Senior Lecturer in Policing, Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire
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Senior lecturer in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina
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Lecturer in Human Resource Management & Organisational Behaviour, University of Kent
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Research Associate, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Research Fellow in Qualitative Methods, University of East Anglia
