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Social media is giving a new lifeline to Bhutan’s native languages, which do not have written script and lack proper documentation.
The Succession finale had fans carefully avoiding spoilers.
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A series of psychological experiments found that knowing the end of a story did not diminish readers’ enjoyment.
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Group chats can be places of joy, solidarity and refuge. But they can also be a huge time-suck, and create feelings of anxiety and worry.
Joining up with someone who holds a different perspective influences your take on online posts.
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A new study unexpectedly found a way to help people assess social media posts with less bias and more care – pairing them up with partners who have a different perspective.
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The plaintiffs claims features such as ‘infinite scroll’ leave users less likely to be able to exercise self-control.
Visitors to an exhibit about graduate students’ experiences of online hate, ‘Bearing Witness,’ look at the artwork titled ‘Evincing’ by Shanique Mothersill.
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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.
Your political leanings go a long way to determine whether you think it’s a good or bad idea to take down misinformation.
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One person’s content moderation is another’s censorship when it comes to Democrats’ and Republicans’ views on handling misinformation.
There are some practical ways to filter the amount of violent and graphic content you see on social media.
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Whatever approach you take to managing your feeds, remain cautious and sceptical.
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Some see Elon Musk as an idiot savant; others think of him simply as an idiot. How did an unelected citizen come to wield such power?
Figure Eight Pools in NSW.
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The content on social media platforms doesn’t always portray the locations accurately, setting unrealistic expectations and even luring tourists into trouble.
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Algorithms have been blamed for dividing society. What if they could support social cohesion instead?
X CEO Elon Musk has argued that his social media platform allows users to ‘be their true selves.’
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With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
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Fixating on sleep can make your sleep worse. But some people crave the connection online sleep communities provide.
Hunter Biden has been found guilty of making a false claim on a federal firearms application.
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Researchers are interested in whether who you’re communicating with and how you’re interacting affect how likely you are to lie.
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LGBTQ+ people face significant harms from online hate.
Understanding how and why conflicts around devices and screen time are unfolding will help families foster healthy relationships with each other and with digital technologies.
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Navigating disagreements about screens can provide parents with valuable opportunities to foster quality relationships and raise children who can manage themselves responsibly.
Content moderators like these workers make decisions about online communities based on company dictates.
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In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
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Accurate and fair information is critical in times of conflict such as the ongoing Israel-Gaza War. What is the role of digital activism in this context, and how does it shape real-world events?
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Social media is a lifeline for community radio, helping it grow by being shaped by young listeners.
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Depending on what the fake account is doing, the law may not be on your side.