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The focus on adapting to Google and Facebooks’s algorithms completely changed newsroom practices over the past decade, as journalists have weighed editorial considerations against audience metrics.

Media coverage of disasters follows a broadly similar trajectory, even though the disasters themselves might take very different forms.

Australia's construction industry is facing tough times

With swift and savage force, the COVID-19 pandemic has inadvertently attacked Australia’s local news media ecology, which was already battling a weakened immune system

The airline has unveiled its new safety measures as it prepares to fly again. But some measures are deemed impractical or unviable.

As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, many of us feel we have no voice, no ability to affect change. There is nothing we can really do other than try to “flatten the curve”.

SPECIAL FEATURE: As we strive to get used to the strange new feeling of social distancing because of coronavirus, remember manners and respect are what make society work. This used to mean shaking hands, but now it means demonstrating our concern for each other’s health by not shaking hands.

The “instagrammability” of a destination is a key motivation for younger people to travel there - even if filters and mirrors have been used to create a less than realistic image.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Trust in media is low in Australia, which is why traditional news values like accuracy and objectivity matter. If we can successfully address the issue of trust and news media, we might even begin to solve journalism’s revenue crisis.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: It didn't take long for many to conclude the car that ploughed into pedestrians on Flinders Street was driven by terrorism.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: We women are angry. Our anger has led to finding ways, around the rule of men in the newsroom, through social media and each other, to document the scope of the crimes against us.

For a generation accustomed to using dating sites to meet loved ones, this is a friendship site to meet liked ones.

"I'm not saying there aren't a lot of dangerous people out there, I'm saying a lot of those people are in government," says Russell Brand, in his video blog about the Sydney siege.

Social network giant Twitter is opening its first corporate offices in Sydney this week, as it seeks to grow its pool of users in Australia.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | How to make the most of networking opportunities at Christmas functions, whilst still enjoying the champagne and canapés.

Social media is in complete awe after Kelly Osbourne announced she is expecting her first child with her boyfriend Sid Wilson.

On Easter Monday, Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez shared the tragic passing of their son in a joint statement on social media.

Will Smith has been all over social media after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars following a joke made about his wife's hair cut.

Recently, scientists in Hornsund, Svalbard – a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic ocean – witnessed a polar bear pursuing a reindeer into the sea before killing it, dragging it ashore and eating it. The video that they captured was widely shared on news and social media platforms. Then, two days ...

Fall 2021 has been filled with a steady stream of media coverage arguing that Meta’s Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram social media platforms pose a threat to users’ mental health and well-being, radicalize, polarize users and spread misinformation.

The protesters are a mix of groups, but the movement is riddled with far-right and alt-right extremists who, with their growing reach through social media and in the context of developments in the United States and Europe, pose one of the more significant challenges to Australian democracy in recent memory.

The world received wind of this tragedy once Cole Moscatel shared on his social media asking for prayers and kind thoughts for his father as he was in the ICU.

Social media sites like Facebook are designed for constant interaction to engage users’ attention. To rein in Facebook, lawmakers must first understand the harm that results from algorithmic manipulation on these platforms.

Leaked internal documents suggest Facebook – which recently renamed itself Meta – is doing far worse than it claims at minimizing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on the Facebook social media platform.

Despite the overwhelming evidence, it’s still common to see politicians, media commentators or social media users cast doubt on the role of humans in driving climate change.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company will change its name to Meta, saying the move reflects the fact the company is now much broader than just the social media platform (which will still be called Facebook).

The Australian government’s recent warning to Facebook over misinformation is just the latest salvo in the seemingly constant battle to hold the social media giant to account for the content posted on its platform.

For this period of digitalization, the internet has enabled its users to establish online personalities, and they are making money from it. Like that, Instagram is also a social media platform that enables its users to build a virtual market and have a stable source of income.

The Coalition leaders have taken aim at the social media giants, claiming they should take greater responsibility for false and damaging content on their sites, including by identifying offenders.

Some women are holding off on being vaccinated against COVID-19 because of concerns the jab could affect their fertility, at times taking to social media to voice their concerns.

An internal Facebook report found that the social media platform’s algorithms – the rules its computers follow in deciding the content that you see – enabled disinformation campaigns based in Eastern Europe to reach nearly half of all Americans in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, according to a ...

Australian native plants are having a moment in the sun, with more of us seeking out and planting native species than in the past. Our gardens — and our social media feeds — are brimming with beautiful Australian native blooms.

Using social media celebrities to advertise products – influencer marketing – is a lucrative and rapidly growing industry, projected to be worth up to US$15 billion (£10.7 billion) by 2022.

Pinterest, the online pin-board with more than 478 million users, has taken a bold step in becoming the first major social media network to ban weight loss adverts.

Laser eyes are something social media users give themselves to show they love cryptocurrency – and Bukele proved his crypto-enthusiasm last week by having El Salvador become the world’s first nation to make Bitcoin legal tender.

Greens worried that the social media platform enables ‘behaviour which threatens democracy’ but remains largely self-governing.

Social media platform says it removed around 110,000 pieces of content from Aussie accounts that spread Covid misinformation.

Instagram is the leading social media app that is used for digital marketing these days. Businesses worldwide are opening their accounts on Instagram and using its worldwide reach to poach clients and increase their revenue.

Man pretended to be a teenage social media celebrity in order to blackmail girls into providing him with sexually explicit images.

Features like Instagram’s Shop tab facilitate surveillance capitalism, so it’s important to look at their consequences. Many people use Instagram to share their lives with other people, but the redesign is shifting the nature of the social media platform toward online commerce. This shift opens people to highly targeted advertising ...

The case against Facebook bears similarities to U.S. v. Microsoft, the landmark 2001 case that found the software company liable for monopolization. Here, the FTC will have to prove that Facebook, like Microsoft, acquired its market power in the social media market by excluding rivals, not merely by making a ...

Within minutes of news that crew members of the cargo ship Fesco Askold had tested positive for COVID-19, a social media storm broke across Samoa.

As the COVID-19 pandemic restricts freedom of movement, the candidates will be forced to campaign largely through social media and traditional media, which might work in the favour of larger and better-resourced parties. Not all parties and candidates have the finances to run online campaigns.

Man pretended to be a teenage social media celebrity and befriended young girls online. He then coerced them into sex acts.

Companies in sectors such as personal protective equipment manufacturing, home delivery, online entertainment, IT, consultancy services, banks and social media have certainly made excess profits compared to the world prior to COVID-19.

A UK woman was lucky to escape death or serious injury after falling onto a busy highway while filming a Snapchat social media video.

Social media around the world lit up over the weekend, discussing the possibility that an asteroid (known as 2018 VP₁) could crash into Earth on November 2.

Instagram is a social media platform where users post photos with captions, with an estimated one billion active users around the world.

Social media erupts as an unnamed ‘large celebrity and influencer’ in LA offers a ‘part-time’ 24/7 job from hell.

She’s single, famous and a social media celebrity. And soon she’ll be heading off on an overseas adventure with no need for quarantine.