Australia’s 2.6 million small businesses and community groups need to act fast, or risk having their texts mistaken for scams – all because of one new word.
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The challenge in using either AI or traditional campaigns for health messaging remains designing accurate and culturally responsive health communication.
The First Amendment might complicate plans to prosecute the people who sent up to 500,000 anonymous messages in November calling Black people ‘slaves,’ among other hate speech.
Your phone doesn’t even need to ping for you to be distracted. Here’s how to reclaim your focus.
As well as abuse, many Australian have also experienced threats of harm and harassing behaviour.
This episode will reinforce the opinion of some Liberals that Joyce has proved a liability to the government (just as they expected).
There are key ethical questions journalists must ask themselves - and be able to answer - in situations such as this.
The idea seems to make sense: if the system can predict your intended word before you type it, this should save you time. But that’s not necessarily the case.
Crude text scams, sent en masse, only have to work a handful of times to make criminals significant sums of cash.
Mobile phones across the country are buzzing nonstop with text notifications from both presidential campaigns. A scholar of campaign communications explains why.
No longer do we need to talk with shop assistants, receptionists, bus drivers or even coworkers, we simply engage with a screen to communicate whatever it is we want to say.
People should be a bit more careful when signing off their emails and text messages. Not everyone wants a kiss.
As it closes down 20 years after launching, a look back at the key role AOL Instant Messenger played in preparing people for today’s digital messaging methods.
Whether such a verdict would be handed down in Australia remains to be seen, but there are a few things we do know about cases like this one.
For centuries, written communication was tinged with formality and finality. But since the emergence of casual forms like texting, using proper grammar can be fraught with misinterpretation.
It’s a battle of online privacy versus a crackdown on crime, but is a total ban on the popular app, WhatsApp, the right way to go?
Excessive drinkers are more likely to seek help when their drinking habits are compared with their peers than when they are simply given the guidelines.
Patients with chronic illness need support and encouragement to take their medications. SMS messaging is a simple, cheap and seemingly effective way to keep them on track.
Is hanging-up the only way of getting rid of cold callers?
Kids today face a variety of digital stressors –from negotiating how much communication to have with close friends to digital abuse.
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