SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media has the potential to make us feel worse about ourselves because we have a natural tendency to make social comparisons. So in order…
ANALYSIS
- by Danielle Wagstaff, Federation University
DEMOCRACY
Following shocking revelations in the wake of the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election, the terms “fake news factories” and “troll armies” entered the global…
ANALYSIS
- by Jonathan Corpus Ong, University of Massachusetts Amherst
DEMOCRACY
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president in the United States and the result of the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote to leave the…
ANALYSIS
- by Ross Tapsell, Australian National University
DEMOCRACY
China is looking to restore “trust” and “sincerity” in society by making a digital “social credit system.” In this kaleidoscopic system of ratings and blacklists,…
ANALYSIS
- by Séverine Arsène, Asia Global Institute
DEMOCRACY
Politicians and regulators are focusing on how social media can be used as a weapon in polls. But Facebook undermines other parts of representative democracy,…
ANALYSIS
- by Ronan Lee, Deakin University
DEMOCRACY
Asia is the new battleground for the digitization of elections and social media use. Social networking platforms are remaking the idea of what is public…
ANALYSIS
- by Netina Tan, McMaster University
GENDER
With the recent collapse of the Islamic State’s headquarters in Raqqa, one is led to wonder: what will happen to those fighters who managed to…
INSIGHT
- by Noor Huda Ismail, Institute for International Peace Building and Monash University
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