Social media
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Online social networks
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Supporting safer digital spaces
The objective of this research was to create policy and legal recommendations to better protect vulnerable and marginalised populations, in particular women and LGBTQ+ people, from identity-based online harms.
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And now, the news: a national news media policy for Canada
The purpose of this paper is to frame a national consultation and to offer foundational policies for a national news industrial strategy. The authors argue that Canada needs a national news policy. Such a policy must, at all costs, avoid a direct funding connection between the government and newsmakers or news intermediaries.
Research Summary
Blurred boundaries: social media and social connection in outer metropolitan suburbs
This briefing provides evidence of how digital technologies foster or hinder social connection based on common issues and tensions that emerged from an analysis of interviews with residents.
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Digital Threats to Democracy Dialogue: summary report
The Digital Threats to Democracy (DTD) Dialogue was a day-long, closed-door session that brought together a distinguished group of diverse subject matter experts, government officials and civil society stakeholders to examine intersecting digital challenges to democracy. This report consolidates and summarises the key points of the presentations, discussions and recommendations for consideration that arose from...
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Social media and youth mental health 2023
Calling attention to the growing concerns about the effects of social media on youth mental health, this Advisory explores and describes some of the primary areas for mental health and well-being concerns, and opportunities for additional research to help understand the full scope and scale of social media’s impact.