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Bonds Australia gives all employees COVID lockdown mental health day-off
Sarah Sharples, news.com.au, 16 August 2021Clothing company Bonds has been applauded on social media after announcing it was giving its employees a day off to support their mental health. In a post shared on Facebook, the company said its support and distribution centres would be closed for one day to give staff a well-earned rest, and to help those struggling with...
socio political environment
adaptive leadership
TikTok overtakes Facebook as world’s most downloaded app
Rei Nakafuji, Nikkei Asia, 06 August 2021A global survey of downloads in 2020 shows short video-sharing app, TikTok, on top of the list of social media providers for the first time since the study was conducted in 2018. However, some believe that personal information shared with TikTok is not secure. This comes as data protection is becoming more important to...
socio political environment
Facebook pushes back against Biden claim that social media is ‘killing people’
Cecilia Kang, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 2021Facebook has pushed back against the Biden Administration’s denouncing of the social media giant for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, escalating tensions between the Silicon Valley company and the White House. In a blog post, Facebook called for the Biden Administration to stop “finger-pointing” and laid out what it had...
socio political environment
Studying social media can give us insight into human behaviour. It can also give us nonsense
Jason Burton, Nicole Cruz & Ulrike Hahn,, UNSW Newsroom, 13 July 2021Since the early days of social media, there has been excitement about how data traces left behind by users can be utilised for the study of human behaviour. However, researchers often analyse this data with tools that were not designed to manage large, noisy, observational sets of data found on social media. Researchers have also found that...
socio political environment
Singapore orders Facebook, Twitter to correct false claims about ‘new’ Covid variant
Saheli Roy Choudhury, CNBC, 20 May 2021Singapore's Government has ordered Facebook, Twitter, and local publisher SPH Magazines to correct what it says are published false statements implying a new coronavirus variant originated in the city-state, and risks spreading to India. Under a law aimed at preventing the spread of 'falsehoods' online, Singapore’s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung...
socio political environment
High Court casts doubt on claims by media companies that they’re not responsible for defamatory comments on social media posts
Paul Karp, The Guardian, 18 May 2021The High Court of Australia has cast doubt on media companies’ claims that they are not responsible for defamatory comments on their social media posts. Fairfax Media and News Corp have taken the matter to the High Court, after a NSW Court of Appeal found they were liable for defamatory material in Facebook comments on their posts about the...
socio political environment
In Conversation: Pandemic communication, corporate messaging & social media, and working during a lockdown
Very Public Affairs Podcast, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 17 March 2021In this episode of In Conversation, Executive Director of the Centre, Wayne Burns is joined by Alison Melville, Associate Director, Corporate Affairs Australia-New Zealand at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Alison discusses corporate communication during a pandemic, the role of ‘good’ science communications,...
crisis communications
Donald Trump: social media ban shows corporate responsibility can win out over profits
Michael J. Boland, The Conversation, 17 March 2021Following the January riot at the US Capitol in Washington, tech giants moved rapidly to “de-platform” Donald Trump. For Michael J. Boland, this action highlights big tech's shift towards “taking steps to detoxify the worst content". Boland argues that social media companies are “finally recognising their potential impact on democracy” and the...
socio political environment
Social media has huge problems with free speech and moderation. Could a decentralised platform fix this?
Chris Berg, Elizabeth Morton & Marta Poblet, The Conversation, 16 March 2021Recent actions by social media giants have led many to ask whether social media platforms wield too much power? In response, a variety of “decentralised” social media networks now promise to be the custodians of free-spoken, censorship-resistant and crowd-curated content, free of corporate and political interference. This is as decentralised...
socio political environment
Chinese technology is advancing, but it’s a long way from global domination
Future Tense Podcast, ABC, 14 March 2021In this episode, the panel discusses how Chinese technology firms are beginning to lead the way in certain social media areas, but also coming up against cultural and manufacturing limits more broadly. The panel also analyses how China is rising and how the US, and the West, are…
socio political environment