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An expert on social media explains how she proved she was being shadow banned – and how you can too.
Social media is designed to keep you engaged by getting a rise out of you, not help you think critically or take effective action on political issues.
Twitter activists played a key role in the robodebt scandal, driving social pressure to end the unlawful welfare scheme.
Frightening headlines alone are unlikely to inspire people to change their behaviour.
Disabled Twitter users will be cut off from opportunities to tell their stories and collaborate internationally.
A social media scholar says the authenticity, connection and immediacy of Zelenskyy’s appeal explains why his videos were so powerful.
How can moderators and social media platforms, who have no direct experience of colonisation, pick up on such culturally nuanced negativity against Indigenous people?
Nine months into the pandemic, Indonesia has seen serious threats to civil liberties, involving not only privacy but also freedom of expression and of the press in the digital realm.
If teenagers organizing on social media can hamper a presidential campaign rally, how challenging is it to manipulate elections?
Enacting real change in business is about more than posting online, it is about making real structural and lasting change to how you do business.
Top contributors
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Philosophy and Director of Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Psychosis Studies, King's College London
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) and Senior Vice-President, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Westminster
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Research Fellow, University of Leeds