How you feel and how you use social media both affect each other – but one impacts the other more.
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Bohra women’s use of social media to build businesses is an example of how religious communities can help women gain financial independence.
Scotland needs to facilitate referendum debate which doesn’t rely on misinformation, half-truths and personality-led rhetoric fed by a toxic social media environment.
The Chinese-owned app TikTok continues its growth as one of the most popular social media networks. After pandemic health measures were lifted, other social media networks saw a decline in use.
Checks on information shared by politicians in Europe and the US showed those in the US shared more untrustworthy material.
For teachers, technology is an important and useful tool. But they and their students need more guidance.
BirthStrike offers a salutary lesson about how core messages can be misconstrued and misunderstood when put through a high-profile media lens.
Scuttlebutt is an entirely decentralised social network – and it shows we can learn to make the internet better.
Parents and teenager have the best chance of cracking internet addiction when adults acknowledge they have a problem too.
Bogus science articles are attempting to take advantage of our trust in experts.
As an anthropologist, I have chronicled the digital nomad lifestyle for the past seven years. The reality is far less glamorous than you might imagine
A recent extortion scam involved threatening to leave unfavourable reviews to restaurants unless they paid up shows the dangers of relying on the wisdom of crowds.
BlenderBot3’s distaste for its creator sits uncomfortably with its taciturn approach to hate speech.
The metaverse could open up more access to travel, entertainment and work for all.
Online life produces a surprising amount of emissions that need to be tackled alongside physical e-waste.
Online extremists may lose followers when removed from mainstream social media, but their remaining supporters can become even more toxic.
Social media ads are set to change under new content marketing regulations.
The study is the largest of its kind. Researchers hope it could be a breakthrough in the fight against misinformation.
Social media calls for a boycott of the club’s upcoming match against Liverpool seem to mostly becoming from outside the UK.
Anti-vaccine group moderators said Facebook provided an environment where they could safely offer support to others.
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Research Fellow in Digital Childhoods, Deakin University
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation
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Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Social Psychology in Society, University of Cambridge
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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Lecturer in Marketing, Griffith University
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Lancaster University
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology and Deputy Director of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge
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Professor in Information Systems, The University of Queensland