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The G20 presidency could champion affordable internet for women, innovation hubs for women entrepreneurs and subsidies for tech companies to hire more women.
The author of the new book ‘Attention and Alienation’ wonders if the online world can ever become a place where kindness and human flourishing are the prevailing ethos.
A machine learning study of millions of online posts found five basic kinds of users – including ‘disagreers’ who mainly like to contradict others.
This scholar has found that 86 per cent of replies to tweets sent to women MPs contained some form of harassment. This is a clear threat to women’s participation in politics.
From Beowulf to Paul Keating, trolling has a long history. Social media, however, and Donald Trump, have taken things next level.
These people share conspiracy theories to promote conflict, cause chaos, recruit and radicalize potential followers, make money, harass, or even just to get attention.
Social media algorithms, anonymity and viral culture combine to amplify online abuse. To combat trolling, everyone must work together.
Representative democracy is under threat as females – particularly from minority groups – leave or choose not to enter politics. Many say the mental toll of online abuse has become overwhelming.
To inform university responses to online harassment affecting graduate students, artist-researchers created original artworks in response to interviews with their peers who experienced online hate.
Ugly incidents in the run-up to the election mirror the rise of online violence against women in politics. The next government needs a plan to tackle the problem before it’s too late.
Though concerns about online harassment were legitimate, with 38% of participants saying they had experienced trolling in response to giving a media interview.
Elon Musk’s new paid verification program resulted in the widespread use of parody accounts by shitposters on the social media platform.
Reality shows can be a psychological minefield for both participants and fans.
A psychologist who has been researching internet trolling for seven years explains why people troll.
We all have a role to play to address hostility online.
How clubs and support teams can help deflect the negative impact of social media.
The Morrison government is setting up a parliamentary inquiry to put big tech companies “under the microscope” over dangers posed to people’s wellbeing by toxic material on their sites.
The government’s plan to make social media companies hand over trolls’ details aims to make it easier for victims to sue their harassers for defamation. But this conflates two very different concepts.
A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.
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