Social media can bombard teenagers with all kinds of content that promotes unrealistic and often unachievable body standards.
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There’s ever-evolving ways for children and young people to be harmed online. Here’s what kids think about the harms they experience and how to prevent them.
Research shows Australian children struggle to find and identify local content on streaming services.
Audiobooks can develop children’s listening skills, expand their vocabulary and encourage independent learning.
Many videos people upload to YouTube aren’t really meant for public consumption, but they’re available for AI companies to vacuum up. Many of these personal videos are posted by children.
If you’re not a zoomer, MrBeast may be the most famous person you’ve never heard of. The famous YouTuber is now in Australia, spurring awe and delight with his major prize giveaways.
The Black hosts of the ‘Fresh & Fit’ podcast speak in the parlance of social justice movements, but apply it, in a twisted way, to justify misogyny.
While the Ruby Franke case is an extreme example, it raises important questions of sharing children’s lives online.
The caption may say that only scientists and trained professionals should handle wild animals, but viewers remember the image, not the words.
A wave of horror content is popping up across TikTok, carrying on a legacy that began on YouTube.
The complex task of tackling online terror needs human eyes as well as artificial intelligence.
Youtube ads are money well spent – but smart campaigns will also target Twitch and Mumsnet.
Dark tourism allows people to understand tragic events, experience a catharsis of emotions related to the deaths at a site and it can help people heal from collective trauma.
Even the world’s most successful creators can see their livelihoods threatened by social media companies that routinely change their algorithms and policies with impunity.
Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
Do you remember the bizarre Salad Fingers videos from the early 2000s? They inspired a whole genre of genre-less online videos.
Vlogging has emerged as a new source of intimate entertainment, and for creators, potential income. However, they also raise serious questions about exploitation and the privacy rights of children.
Taffy Theman and Bustop TV are YouTubers who use comedy to criticise the ruling elite.
Foreign interference campaigns have targeted every major social media platform in Australia. But to date, nobody has been prosecuted for this.
YouTuber Colleen Ballinger recently posted a video to her YouTube channel “apologising” to fans in response to recent allegations made against her - and she did it through song.
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Associate Professor of Screen Media, Victoria University
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Distinguished Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Media, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Learning & Teaching Innovation, Flinders University
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Professor of Internet Studies & Director of Influencer Ethnography Research Lab, Curtin University
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Clinical Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Reader in Marketing, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
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Director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, University of Florida
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Professor of Marketing, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Pace University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Kinesiology; Epidemiogist at Henry Ford Health, University of Windsor
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University Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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PhD Candidate, Arts Technology and Innovation, University of East London