tip off

Who’s afraid of Facebook? Australia’s top businesses

Australia’s largest companies say they’re using social media, but they’re not using the networks most Australians use. Twitter rules, ahead of Facebook.

READ MORE

Eye spy: the future of terror will be viral

You could have the box seat for the next terrorist attack — whether you like it or not. The Boston bombings and resulting social media storm were a window to the revolution online.

READ MORE

Democratising the exploitation of terrorism after Boston

Terrorist incidents in Western countries now produce a highly ritualised response, and that applies to social media as well.

READ MORE

The Twitter alternative you might be willing to pay for

App.net went and changed the Silicon Valley orthodoxy with a paid, then “freemium”, model to threaten Twitter. But are we willing to pay for a better, more secure service?

READ MORE

Gillard’s ‘stop the trolls’ plan will please the media, but it’s nothing new

Now there’s a war on cyberbullying. What is the government up to, and will it make a difference?

READ MORE

Facebookie: social betting next big thing in gambling

You can’t bet real money online, but you can play simulated casino games on your smartphone for “fun”. If the law changes, researchers are concerned it may have impacts on how we gamble online.

READ MORE

Sentia Media index: politics over policy in Canberra

It was the politics of Canberra, not the policy, which dominated media headlines, talkback radio and social media chatter this week.

READ MORE

War by social media: ‘we’re coming for you Gaza!’

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas heats up again, Crikey intern David Donaldson traces war by social media.

READ MORE

When social media meets socialism: China challenged

As China prepares to anoint its leaders for the next decade, freelance journalist Monica Tan assesses the impact of runaway social media on the government of the Middle Kingdom.

READ MORE

Google defames us all, but should we sue?

What is to “publish” in the digital age? Search engines are now targets as we wake up to the fact the law says we’re publishing every time we go online.

READ MORE

Fake followers and the upshot of dodgy social media

You may have heard of black hat search engine optimisation, but what about black hat social media? Patrick Stafford of SmartCompany asks if it works.

READ MORE

Sentia Media index: SA politicians and baby boo boo

Politicians in South Australia and the ACT featured this week, while Kevin Rudd still lurks in the shadows, writes Sentia Media’s John Chalmers.

READ MORE

Google, Facebook the giants of Australian online media

In a worrying trend for mainstream media, Australians are turning away from traditional news sources in their search for information. Facebook leads the pack.

READ MORE

Sentia Media index: Abbott raises the roof

In a week when news beat entertainment programming in the ratings there was significant competition for most media mentions, writes Sentia Media’s John Chalmers.

READ MORE

Radio chiefs’ error: mistaking social media for traditional media

Mainstream media powerbrokers only understand social media in traditional media terms, undermining their efforts to deal with it.

READ MORE

The legal industry faces a steep internet learning curve

Efforts to thwart the impact of social media on the criminal justice system will fail. In the first of a two-part series, why the legal industry needs to accept that fact and adjust.

READ MORE

Brave News World: how social does the media now have to be?

Social media will enhance or destroy the journalism model, depending on who you believe. Gideon Haigh on Twitter, Facebook and measuring news in the third chapter of his investigative special for Crikey on the future of the media.

READ MORE

Sentia Media index: Jones, the social media explosion

Peter Slipper and Campbell Newman zoomed up the charts of media mentions this week. But nobody had more attention than a certain Sydney shock jock …

READ MORE

Attorneys-General looking for ideas to thwart social media

Criminal trials and social media are not a good mix, but can lawmakers do anything about it? Attorney’s General will meet on Friday to discuss it.

READ MORE

Social media laws? It’s time to take a chill pill

Why Australia’s technologically illiterate politicians and emotionally fragile sportsmen, with their calls for tough new laws to police social media, need to have a good lie down.

READ MORE
Crikey Blogs | LINKS|

How the Preventive Health Agency engages with social media

Following criticism about its apparent lack of digital engagement, the Australian National Preventive Health Agency has responded to Croakey blogger Melissa Sweet, explaining its approach to social media.

READ MORE

APS increasingly stranded on social media

The public service’s response to the emergence of social media is stranded in an analog era. James Button’s new book throws new light on the issue.

READ MORE

Essential: Gillard gets a boost from voters

New polling from Essential Research has yielded no further rise in Labor’s primary vote but a surprisingly strong lift in voter sentiment towards Julia Gillard.

READ MORE

The denial behind youth suicide

Suicidal behaviour and self-harm remain a concern, a part of a widely perceived crisis in mental health. There’s a greater denial behind youth suicide, writes researcher Richard Eckersley.

READ MORE

The troller troll’d, or, disrupting the market for causing offence

The trolling debate is merely the mainstream media doing what it’s always done: try to make money from enraging readers. But it’s unlikely to work.

READ MORE

Womens Agenda

loading...

Leading Company

loading...

Smart Company

loading...

StartupSmart

loading...

Property Observer

loading...