Tennant Creek has developed innovative ways of dealing with social media. But the initiatives are languishing, partly for lack of funding. Aboriginal elders and parents in Tennant Creek became disturbed during 2012 by reports that kids had been involved in cyberbullying, something they knew little about. Local authorities told them their children had been texting...

The media landscape in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has recently been undergoing a dramatic change. Greater access to mobile media technologies and expanding communications infrastructure are fundamentally altering the ways Papua New Guineans participate in personal and mass communications. A new social media culture is emerging, one characterised by assertive, highly critical Papua New Guineans...

More than one in four Australian businesses had a social media presence as at 30 June 2013, up from one in five the previous year, according to this release.

The Reuters Institute Annual Digital News Report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a representative survey of online news consumers conducted by YouGov. The 2014 report includes 10 countries; the UK, US, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Finland, Urban Brazil, Japan and Denmark. The 2014 report contains unique data and analysis about the...

This report outlines findings from an international online survey of 711 academics about their use of social media as part of their work conducted in January 2014. The survey sought to identify the tools that the respondents used, those they found most useful and the benefits and the drawbacks of using social media as a...