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The Conversation
China has used big data collection systems to keep COVID under control. How the government plans to use these new capabilities in its national surveillance system has many concerned.
Stuff
OPINION: Your privacy is the price of Facebook's monopoly. Here’s how it keeps raising that price.
The Conversation
Twitter’s design promotes avoidance as the solution to hostility, but it also needs space for restorative activity that could genuinely resolve conflict.
Mother Jones
Vaccine disinformation. The Big Lie. The hate poisoning your community. It all goes back to Mark Zuckerberg’s business model.
the Guardian
The service has reversed its ban on sexual content, but valid – and legal – forms of expression for sex workers are still under threat, says author Jillian C York
the Guardian
Benyamin Ahmedâs Weird Whales sell in cryptocurrency and ownership is stored on blockchain
stoppress.co.nz
Mosh Social Media’s 2021 New Zealand Facebook and Instagram Report has revealed the social strategies behind top Kiwi brands reaching millions of viewers.
www.abc.net.au
Depending on who you talk to, the metaverse is either a utopia or a dystopia. And it's costing billions of dollars. But what even is it? And will it work?
Newsroom
Copyright lawyer Michael Wolfe argues that the future of our libraries does not hinge on the outcome of an American court case.
The social media giant has revealed its most clicked-on links in the first quarter of 2021 in the US.
The Conversation
Our review of 45 studies on machines as managers shows we generally hate being slaves to algorithms.
the Guardian
According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency, asks Jamie Waters
ZB
The latest lockdown has seen another surge in internet use as people connect and video call from home offices. We've set another record, and it's one that
The Conversation
We all have biases that impact what information we choose to accept and reject. But there are some ways we can train ourselves to become more discerning.
The Conversation
All this ‘choice’ in streaming video on demand is undermining the market benefits of aggregation.
RNZ
The price and consequences of being Facebook are actually design choices according to New York Times writers Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel. They talk to Jesse about their book, An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle For Domination.
The Spinoff
Mark Zuckerberg is among the tech evangelists telling us to prepare for a future of fully interconnected technologies, networks and virtual worlds. But is that a future for the rest of us to look forward to, wonders Hal Crawford. I live south of Sydney, on the fringe of the national park, and mos
openDemocracy
As many envision a world in which both information and value flow freely, new pathways for sustainable income streams are emerging online
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will roll out a system for checking photos for child abuse imagery on a country-by-country basis, depending on local laws, the company said on Friday.
The Conversation
Is a ‘metaverse’ blending real and virtual worlds the future of the internet?
The Standard
This will have the conspiracy theorists spinning. Youtube have stopped Murdoch's Sky News Australia from uploading videos for the next seven days after the channel uploaded videos questioning Covid and advocating for the use of alternative medicines including Donald Trump's favourite hydroxychloroquine
Newsroom
James Elliott hands out red cards to runners in the reckons relay as he does his best not to put his hand into a power saw.
Newsroom
MediaRoom: The latest radio industry ratings would have caused grimaces at RNZ - which has watched its National programme slip to fourth most listened-to station in the land after sitting at
the Guardian
When I heard my number was on a leaked data list, I wasnât surprised. Reporters have never been more vulnerable, says investigative journalist Bradley Hope
The Conversation
Cancel culture has exploded due to social media’s amplifying powers, society’s deep divisions and difficulties redressing longstanding inequities.
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