Footage claiming to document the situation in Ukraine may not necessarily be genuine. Here’s how to treat viral footage with the right level of scepticism before sharing it on social media.
- Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
In an age of democracy via social media, platforms are struggling to combat visual mis/disinformation such as ‘spliced’ images and deepfakes. Digital media literacy has never been so important.
To curb opportunistic shoplifting, supermarkets want you to know you are being watched. But they’re also hoping for self-reflection.
Storing sensitive papers in a filing cabinet makes no sense when we could digitise them and control access.
Banks are experimenting with chatbots, but research shows we may not be ready to give them a go.
While retailers, airlines and many other companies are embracing self-service, the numbers show it isn’t an easy win.
A court has ruled that internet service providers in Australia should block access to some illegal file-sharing websites. But is there a better way to beat the priates?
Australian households currently pay the second highest “honesty tax” in the world at $290 per household per year, levied by retailers to offset the $AU1.86 billion in losses they incur from customer theft…
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