twitter – 2021 ARIN2610

Twitter: A Toxic Platform For Minority Groups

2021-10-17 Marcia Comments Off

Imagine a scenario where everyone is able to share their thoughts, in short messages, to a big audience. Around this time, 15 years ago, the Internet community was granted the luxury to do so through […]

Algorithmic Extremism or Human Fallibility?

2021-10-16 Leilani Horthy Banks Comments Off

You have over 200 new notifications Including 96 mentions This is the notification we see as Jo Powers sit transfixed before her computer, giggling with a sort of gallows humour as a torrential onslaught of […]

The development of the Internet: Inseparable from racism

2021-10-15 YUCHEN HUANG Comments Off

At the beginning of the Internet, some scholars imagined it as an unprecedented virtual world capable of breaching perpetual racism in real societies and a world where individuals from different races could interact equally and freely […]

Assignment 2 – Short Hypertextual Essay – 500463750

2021-10-14 Eve-Louise Comments Off

The internet and social media have become detrimental parts of everyday life. Jeff Orlowki’s 2020 Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, highlights the positive and negative results of this through visual imagery and discussions as […]

Trump, Trolls & Terrorists: Content Moderation in the Modern World

2021-10-14 William Comments Off

Content moderation is a necessary governance mechanism to make digital platforms safer and more inclusive, but recent developments have seen social media companies employ it as a discretionary device to exert soft power and dictate […]

How long will Donald Trump’s Facebook blockade last?

2021-08-24 Jessica TU Comments Off

Former US president Donald Trump has lashed out at Facebook after the social media company’s independent oversight board upheld a decision to ban him from the platform for the moment. However, the board also said […]

Facebook decided to reassess its indefinite ban on Donald Trump

2021-08-24 Eve-Louise Comments Off

Former US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Facebook after the social media company’s independent oversight board upheld a decision to ban him from the platform for the moment. However, the board also said […]

Trump slams Facebook Twitter and Google as a “total disgrace and embarrassment” to the US.

2021-08-18 Neve Comments Off

Trump slams Facebook Twitter and Google as a “total disgrace and embarrassment” to the US. Former US president claims the “corrupt social media companies” must “pay a political price” after the platform’s board banned his […]

Facebook forced to review rash decision to indefinitely ban Donald Trump following outrage from the former US President

2021-08-17 VICTORIA Comments Off

Former US president Donald Trump has lashed out at Facebook after the social media company’s independent oversight board upheld a decision to ban him from the platform for the moment. Former US president Donald Trump […]