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A social psychologist explains how to avoid being misled, and how to prevent yourself – and others – from spreading inaccurate information.
There are a few simple tricks anyone can use.
Incidents that may have been mere hiccups a few years ago can go viral in an instant today. ABC seems to have learned from the mistakes of others.
As austerity bites, people are turning to social media for help with mental issues. Despite the fact that even Facebook agrees social media can be bad for mental health.
The law around ‘sexting’ needs to be overhauled as the way young people communicate changes and evolves.
It’s widely accepted that young people living in children’s homes or foster care are vulnerable to mental illness, but new research shows that social media can actually help.
Social media can act like an online CV, so be careful what you share.
Sociologists know what conditions make it more likely a mass delusion will take hold and spread through a group – whether adherence to a fashion fad or belief in a doomsday cult.
The way people use social media – and the algorithms inside those systems – increases passions, and drives people to polarizing extremes.
Parents can cause privacy problems by oversharing their child’s pictures online.
Australian Twitter users largely ignored news from Syria, North Korea and other trouble spots in June, focussing instead on domestic politics.
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Reader, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Associate Professor in Education, University of East Anglia
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Reader in Human Resource Management & Organisational Behaviour, Brunel University of London
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Associate Professor in Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Adjunct Lecturer, Flinders University
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior lecturer in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Safeguarding and Violence Prevention, Director of the Institute for Children's Futures, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of South Carolina
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University