This article presents and discuss the findings from six rural and urban focus groups with young people in Australia about the use of social media and social network sites (SNS) for sexual health communication.

Various measures of offline political activism appear to be falling, but this paper shows that young people in particular remain interested in politics, and use social media to stay politically engaged. This paper analyses political support on social media, and finds that each of the main political parties now have significantly more Twitter followers than...

Many councils are looking at adopting social media as part of their operations, and a number of councils, state associations and professional organisations have or are in the process of developing guide documents on the issue. The intent of this ACELG project is to assist the sector in strategising how social media might be effectively...

This report provides an analysis of the responses to questions from a bespoke NFER online teacher survey, using NFER's Techer Voice Panel, for the DfE's Vital Programme (delivered by the Open University). Covering the topics of e-safety, cyberbullying, pupil use of mobile phones and social networking, the survey found that: 87 per cent of teachers...

Social media, including Facebook and Twitter, played an important role in crisis communication at the height of the 2011 South East Queensland floods crisis (10-16 January). This report examines the role of the short-messaging system Twitter in disseminating and sharing crisis information and updates from state and local authorities, as well as everyday citizens.