Internet shutdown affects millions of Africans more and more often and are most prominent during elections or protests.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the man who gave us the world wide web, dreamt the technology would unite us. But something went really wrong with the rise of social media.
It’s not all about broadband access. Key adult education programs help Canadians acquire needed digital literacy skills for further education, apprenticeship training, certification and employment.
New research shows how fear of missing out and an inability to regulate our own emotions is linked to using the internet in concerning ways.
The padlock symbol simply means that the data being sent between the web server and the user’s computer is encrypted and cannot be read by others. But many people don’t know that.
Scuttlebutt is an entirely decentralised social network – and it shows we can learn to make the internet better.
Discord was initially a service to let gamers voice and text chat while playing. Most of its current users build and maintain online communities, though not always very big ones.
If you think the ‘digital natives’ have better online search skills than their parents, you’d be wrong. But simply telling students what to do isn’t the best way to improve their skills.
Gen X is leading the way in kicking the social media habit. And concerns about an overall ‘internet addiction’ seem overblown.
Millions of households are expected to gain access to upgraded internet connections, with speeds of up to one gigabit per second (if you’re willing to pay for the plan).
As the pandemic moves us indoors, it’s time to reconsider our understanding of ‘screen time’ – especially since we’re relying on our devices now more than ever.
An absence of laws governing the digital space has allowed the government to tinker with internet accessibility as it sees fit.
The father of the web wants to address issues including malicious content circulation, misinformation, and the polarisation of online debate. But the methods he is proposing aren’t great.
There is a strong framework of international laws and conventions that defend free speech, but Uganda continues to limit freedom of expression especially when the people criticise their president.
In just three decades we’ve gone from a very limited internet connection in Australia to now sharing our lives online.
Shutting down or controlling access to the internet has become a go-to strategy among some African states who want to control the political narrative.
Internet taxes could stifle Africa’s free and vibrant social media.
Imma let you finish, but there’s more to memes than you think.
What happens to your Facebook account, your iTunes purchases and your email messages when you die?
Wasting time on the internet at work could be putting your company’s cyber-security at risk.
Top contributors
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in Media Theory and History, Università di Torino
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Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications; Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Federation University Australia
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Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
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Professor, Cyber Security, Aston University
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Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Geographic Information Science, Birkbeck, University of London
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Law, Drake University
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Senior Research Fellow - The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Reading