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They have some big ideas.
While Facebook’s Zuckerberg suggested as much recently, companies run like autocracies cannot fulfill technology’s promise of reinvigorating the democratic process.
The biggest cyber security concern for many Tanzanians is the risk of inadvertently becoming a perpetrator of politically-defined cybercrime, rather than becoming a victim
From a social media post that cracked open a decades-old abuse scandal in the UK and Australia, through to tracking asylum seekers, social media can be vital in breaking investigative news stories.
Think it’s a mere coincidence the first two letters of “algorithm” hint at Artificial Intelligence?
Despite its negative aspects, investigative journalists globally are using social media to collaborate and uncover important stories.
Indigenous people make up small percentages of the population in many countries – but using social media, Indigenous voices can be heard worldwide. Here are a dozen deadly Australians worth following.
Like many other advancements in communication technology, social media has a good, a bad and an ugly side when it comes to its relationship with crime, criminal justice and the law.
Children and adolescents relate to each other through social media, for good and for bad.
Social media is a key platform for public debate. But that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good.
We need better surveillance systems to detect epidemics early. But while social media has been flagged as a potential solution, we’re not quite there yet.
Social media does not eradicate the line between personal or private. Instead, it shifts the line in ways that require thought rather than unreflexive condemnation or celebration.
Social media trolling, which is disproportionately aimed at women, is a sign of a much deeper malaise that must be redressed.
Top contributors
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Karyn Healy is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Principal Research Fellow in Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy, UnBias, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Education, University of South Florida
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer, Media and Communication, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in International Development, The Open University
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Journalist, author, broadcaster, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, UniSA Creative, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Digital Tech for Mental Health, University of Nottingham
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney