Touchscreen technologies have made it easy for children as young as four to go online. Here are some things to teach them about how to be safe on the internet.
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Parents should ask their teens to show them how they use social media and how it works so they can have conversations about what the risks are and how to reduce them.
The 2017 Australian Digital Inclusion Index shows that internet access and digital ability have improved since 2014, but the affordability of online services has declined.
If children and teenagers are comfortable with social media, we should use it as a means to reach them and ensure they understand the do’s and dont’s.
Sooner or later, China will recognise the value of digital assets. This adds to the urgency of citizens ensuring they control the data trails that tell the world what they think and do.
The physical world is racially segregated as a result of structural racism. A researcher examines whether similar problems exist online.
ABS figures show that Australia’s appetite for faster broadband is growing apace.
Giving rural residents the option of using broadband access isn’t enough to boost their community involvement. To really improve civic engagement, rural dwellers need to use the internet.
There’s a huge divide in thinking between academia and international development on the role of the internet in economic growth.
While the US is reeling from rampant fake online news, political movements in Europe are using the internet as a powerful democratic symbol to win elections. Will cyber-optimism or pessimism win?
The developing world is waking up to the internet. We need to know how new generations of children use it.
A new study suggests that the pleasure of getting an angry reaction is the biggest predictor of online trolling behaviour – meaning that the best way to fight back is just to ignore them.
This year marks the 30th birthday of .au domains. We’ve come a long way but there’s big change ahead.
Spending lots of time on the internet might be good for getting what you want in the short term but it might not work in the long term.
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Australian businesses need to focus more on the global market and less on giving generous dividends to shareholders.
3D printing is opening doors to amazing opportunities and benefits – as well as some undeniable dangers. Patience and caution about regulating it will yield more innovation.
It is not too late to change the current direction of Australia’s NBN from one that just meets today’s demands, to one that we need for the future.
It is time to demand the ‘positive right’ of affordable access if we want internet freedom for all.
Most Australians do not understand how the Google search engine works and what is paid or free content in any search results.
We now have access to an Internet containing a vast store of information much bigger than any individual brain can carry - and that’s not always a good thing.
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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