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Twitter activists played a key role in the robodebt scandal, driving social pressure to end the unlawful welfare scheme.
In the battle for Twitter’s followers, this may be the end game.
Our research highlights three key reasons for declining trust in experts, and how to regain their authority in future.
Research shows LGBTQIA+ employees go to many lengths to conceal their true selves from workplace connections.
Cloud computing is a way for businesses to access extra computational resources over the internet. Without it, the internet as we know it would malfunction.
Twitter uses an AI-powered centrally managed algorithm to moderate what you see. On Bluesky, you have control over the algorithm that selects what you see through so-called ‘composable moderation’.
Social media algorithms can use millions of different parameters to decide what kind of content is shown to users.
Social media provides both a forum for communication and a public signal about what a bank’s customers believe. That means Twitter can facilitate coordination in real time.
Fans often prefer to remain in the dark about the identity of their favourite authors and artists
Paid blue tick status could make it harder to tell if information is coming from a legitimate source.
Calling media organisations ‘government-funded’ risks turning people away from reliable sources of information.
Pierre Poilievre is right that Canadians should be shielded from disinformation. But they should also be wary of politicians misleading them on the impartiality and independence of Crown corporations.
A murderous super fan, Dre is the messy Black female character audiences deserve.
New research shows that antisemitic posts surged as the ‘free speech absolutist’ took over the social media giant. And it has settled at a higher level since.
Over the past few years, most big media organisations have updated their social media rules.
Twitter and Meta are looking to make money from protecting users’ identities. This raises questions about collective security, people understanding what they’re paying for and who remains vulnerable.
Signalling theory tells us lots about the way paid-for verification has disrupted the blue tick system.
The explosive viral spread of the grainy but dramatic footage shows the limits of mainstream media ethics.
Justices are weighing the arguments in two cases that have the potential of changing the way social media platforms operate.
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Dean International, University of Chester
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Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Data Analyst, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Hull
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Pace University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Strategic Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham