Dec 4, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
Merja Myllylahti, Auckland University of Technology Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash According to a recent survey by the News Media Association, 90% of editors in the United Kingdom “believe that Google and Meta pose an existential threat to journalism”. Why...
Oct 20, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society, Referee, Science & Technology
Photo by dole777 on Unsplash By Izzy Renton This year’s election has gone to the highest bidders. Electoral donation figures show that Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori received a combined total just exceeding $2,900,000. Meanwhile, the National, Act, and...
Oct 27, 2021 | Business & Economics
By James Muldoon Facebook won’t let state oversight trump shareholder interest, so alternatives – based on common ownership and community control – are needed. Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen described the company as “morally bankrupt” before a panel of...
Aug 4, 2021 | Business & Economics, Science & Technology
By Niels Wouters & Jeannie Paterson TikTok is hugely popular. But its latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy. With more than one billion users since 2017, TikTok is one of the...
Aug 2, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Erik Peper & Moncia Almendras Why is it that after studying, working, entertaining and socialising at the computer screen or looking at texts, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok and responding to notifications on the cellphone, we often feel exhausted (Zoom fatigue)...
Apr 28, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Alan Finlayson How can we create a progressive ‘popular force’ in an era of digital media platforms dominated by the innovations of right-wing populism? Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a powerful 18th-century polemicist and a radical democrat, thought that political dispute...
Apr 20, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Saif Ahmed Adib & Aniket Mahanti Social media has come a long way since its inception. From Facebook to TikTok today, social media has created a separate field of its own in the vast world of information technology. Social media has come a long way since its...
Mar 1, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Michael Humphrey “I analyzed all of Trump’s tweets to find out what he was really saying.” The tally was in, it was clear Donald Trump had lost – and he tweeted: “either a new election should take place or … results nullified.” It sounds familiar, but...
Feb 24, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Business & Economics
By Gavin Ellis We have been shocked by Facebook’s Australian news ban because we have been labouring under a misapprehension: We thought it was a public utility. It was conceived as a utility (for Harvard University students) and founder Mark Zuckerberg has been...
Feb 22, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Business & Economics
Social media, as it exists currently, is an oligopoly, with a handful of private companies controlling the structure and use of the platforms which mediate our communication not only with one another but also with the public sphere. As these companies continue to...