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...
Nov 19, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Peter Geoghegan Social media platforms have allowed US conservatives to delegitimise the election and sow mistrust of democracy. In late August, roughly five weeks before Americans went to the polls, a story appeared in The New York Times reporting new data about...
Aug 18, 2020 | Politics & Society
Social media has become a key feature in politics and communication and will likely play a significant role in the 2020 US election. The Trump administration has threatened sanctions against social media sites TikTok and WeChat, a move which...