The term "social network" has become commonplace, but those who use it to designate Facebook or Instagram often ignore its origin and true meaning.
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The world's loudest hater of 'fake news' is also a brazen peddler of insidious misinformation.
Citizens of Oman can now find every government department on Twitter, reporting issues and ensuring public servants are kept on their toes.
Companies and governments should do more to prevent 'revenge porn' without asking potential victims to send their nude photos to Facebook.
With Labor having largely defused the Adani issue, debate on Twitter in the final weeks of the 2017 Queensland election campaign has come to focus chiefly on the role of One Nation.
Twitter can be a useful tool in trying to predict what people think on an issue. So why did a study of almost half a million tweets on the same-sex marriage survey get it wrong?
Twitter activity over the first two weeks of the Queensland election campaign shows good support for Labor and a slowdown of the Adani debate.
Longer doesn't always mean better. But it's not the end of the world, either.
In a fight for the global flow of information, social media firms must be regulated. Their billions of dollars in revenue put their financial interests in conflict with truth and democracy.
A scholar asks whether democracy itself is at risk in a world where social media is creating deeply polarized groups of individuals who tend to believe everything they hear.
There has been a 600 per cent increase in online hate speech since Nov. 2015. The solution to stop the tide lies in both anti-hate laws and self-awareness education for audiences.
Plenty of debate on Twitter about the marriage reform survey, and data from that can be crunched to predict the result. So what is it?
Evaluating behavior using the elements of addiction can shed light on the president's – and anyone else's – tendencies to use social media.
The Canadian news industry is in a crisis. Rather than providing a way forward, the Liberal government suggests that Facebook, Twitter, and Google will "jumpstart digital news innovation."
Hostile foreign powers and even tech companies are not attacking us with bullets and bombs; they're doing it with bits and bytes. It's Cyber Security Awareness Month, so what to do about the third world war being waged in cyberspace?
Twitters experiment with 280 characters bears a remarkable resemble to the time Coca Cola changed its formula. That didn't end well.
From the football field to the library, this roundup of archival stories explores how the First Amendment applies to various aspects of our lives.
Twitter is trialing 280-character tweet limits - but will it help its flawed business model?
Parents can cause privacy problems by oversharing their child's pictures online.
ABC News has quietly moved into third place in the domestic online news market and had a piece that went unexpectedly viral in Korea.
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Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Digital Business, University of Salford
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Professor of Strategic Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Pace University
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Director of Research, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, School of Journalism, Columbia University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia
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Professor and Director of Research Development and Environment, School of Journalism, Cardiff University
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Professor, Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
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Professor of Information and Knowledge Management, Associate Dean Research, Director of the Centre for Information Management, Loughborough University
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Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Winchester
