What happened to all of the content posted on social media platforms and blogs — like MySpace and LiveJournal — more than two decades ago?
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Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
Making connections with people in online events requires planning and a proactive attitude.
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Initially a service to let gamers voice and text chat while playing, most of Discord’s current users build and maintain online communities – though not always very big ones.
Disaster preparations often focus on gear and logistics, but research in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami shows that strong social ties played a key role in helping communities rebound.
If the site is increasingly where people are getting their news, what could the company do without taking up the mantle of being a final arbiter of truth?
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.
Shifts in our communication infrastructures have reshaped the very possibilities of social order driven by markets and commercial exploitation.
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Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
Capitalism has become focused on expanding the proportion of social life that is open to data collection and processing – as if the social itself has become the new target of capitalism’s expansion.
Who’s more likely to help you find a job, your close friends or the casual acquaintance you see at the gym? An examination of Facebook friends offers some clues.
Social isolation in old age is a significant social concern. It is linked to a range of health problems and, in extreme cases, it can lead to people growing old and dying alone.
Park Thaichon, S P Jain School of Global Management and Sara Quach, Swinburne University of Technology
By bidding the price of unhealthy food down, fast food marketers are normalising everyday consumption.
Dire predictions on the future of children’s brains are shocking, not least because of how flimsy the evidence is to support these views.
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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.