Tom Valovic mercatornet.com Tom Valovic is a journalist and the author of Digital Mythologies (Rutgers University Press), a series of essays that explored emerging social and political issues raised by the advent of the internet. He has served as a consultant to the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
lens.monash.edu As Meta (formerly Facebook) expands access to its virtual reality (VR) platform, disturbing accounts of women being sexually assaulted and harassed in its metaverse are also racking up. From a vice-president of research for another metaverse company who claims she was groped by a group of
Saul Zimet fee.org Saul Zimet was a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. The debate over whether technological progress is ultimately good or bad for humanity
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) Existing government measures won’t stop one of our fastest-growing sectors moving to Australia.“Existing government policies won’t stop New Zealand gaming and interactive media companies from choosing to expand in Australia instead of New Zealand,” New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA)
David Tuffley Griffith University David is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity at Griffith University’s School of Information & Communication Technology in Brisbane/Gold Coast. When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. For millions of people in the US and around the world, TikTok has become the latest craze. Creating your own videos and
Ismini Vasileiou De Montfort University Paul Haskell-Dowland Edith Cowan University Dr Ismini Vasileiou is an Associate Professor in Information Systems (FBCS, SFHEA) and Associate Head of School (Deputy) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester. Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Professor of Cyber
On opposite sides of the world, two separate court cases have potentially massive consequences for social media. In one case, Australian journalist Avi Yemini has won a court injunction against an anonymous Twitter account that has repeatedly attacked and – he says – defamed him on the platform. Yemini intends to sue
We often hear about the devastating potential of cyber-terrorism, or the dangerous vulnerability of our interconnected world to natural events like solar flares. Cyber-terrorism is not just a theoretical bee in some think-tank’s bonnet: it’s already happening. We’ve just been incredibly lucky, so far.
Twitter’s original slogan was “Tell us what you really think.” Reading some people’s tweets, you often have to ask yourself: what the hell were they thinking? Twitter has become notorious for ruining people over a single, thoughtless tweet. Usually, they’re low-level former nobodies, mindlessly thumbing out
John Mac Ghlionn brownstone.org With a doctorate in psychosocial studies, John Mac Ghlionn works as both a researcher and essayist. His writing has been published by the likes of Newsweek, NY Post and the American Conservative. The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has just ended.
As you will know, Elon Musk is in the process of buying Twitter. This naturally has caused panic in the Titterverse. Blaze Media explains: During a presentation to woo investors, Elon Musk laid out his plans for what actions he intends on implementing when he takes over Twitter. Musk reportedly
Dr Jae particle.scitech.org.au It may sound like the name of a rapper but alas, instead of rapping rhymes Jae spends her time weaving words and writing articles on STEM! With a doctorate in Health Psychology & Exercise Physiology and background in science communication, this curious cat will
Christian van Nieuwerburgh mercatornet.com Christian van Nieuwerburgh is Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Doomscrolling, according to Merriam-Webster, is “the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening or depressing”. For many
Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practising attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games and spending time with her cats. All eyes will be on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas now that the Texas
