Having some form of anonymity online offers many people a kind of freedom. Whether it’s used for exposing corruption or just experimenting socially online it provides a way for the content (but not its…
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Amanda Todd was a 15-year-old Canadian girl who took her own life in October 2012. Prior to her death, she had been the victim of extensive and prolonged cyber-bullying on Facebook, YouTube and other social…
More than 500 high-profile names, including authors, musicians and five Nobel laureates, have signed a petition to the United Nations calling for a bill of digital rights to be developed in the wake of…
Data privacy is on our minds like never before. In a relatively small amount of time many of us have gone from carrying out our daily transactions in person to conducting them digitally. We pay energy…
Twitter is awash with trolls, spammers and misanthropes, all keen to ruin your day with a mean-spirited message or even a threat that can cause you genuine fear. It seems all too easy to set up an account…
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Old Dominion University
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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada
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Director, Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics, Aston University
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Associate Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto
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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Business and Commercial Law, Lancaster University
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Associate professor, University of Calgary
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Reader in Computing & Social Responsibility, De Montfort University
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Royal Society University Research Fellow, UCL
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Lecturer in Social Media, Monash University
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Chair professor, Lancaster University
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Turing and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
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Postdoctoral Associate in Computer Science, Cornell University
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Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech, and Co-Director, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Cornell University