Social media has been a blessing for a few and an outright curse to many more. Who allowed us to…
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It’s tough to manage a walkout in protest of your place of employment at a time when everyone works from…
When it comes to fighting COVID-19 in Africa, the internet and social media have been a double-edged sword. Governments and public health officials have used Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media to reach large numbers of people, quickly and efficiently, with information on how to stay healthy and limit the virus’s spread. And digital networks have allowed people to stay in touch, and some businesses to operate, in the face of lockdowns and social-distancing guidelines.
Everyone is responsible for slowing the spread of the disease. Every action counts. This is also the case in the fight against misinformation, which intrudes on the overabundance of news, mixing facts, rumours and fake news. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described this phenomenon as an infodemic.
Twitter’s gone and done something else (again) instead of giving us all the Edit button we so desperately want (and…
The declaration of the novel coronavirus as a pandemic was a call to arms for governments to take urgent and immediate action.…
Some of the most hard-hit in our economy are the performance industry. Musicians, stage performers and even athletes have lost…
The number of coronavirus infections and deaths continues to rise at an alarming rate, reminding us that this crisis is far from over. In response, the global scientific community has thrown itself at the problem and research is unfolding at an unprecedented rate.
The platforming of our lives on social media apps — like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter — is usually met with criticism. Interactive technologies, like video games and social media, we’re told, make us anti-social. Now, as a result of social distancing efforts in response to the coronavirus pandemic, online social networks and video conferencing platforms like Zoom are redefining what it means to be social through our technologies
How’s this for a bummer. Not only does Facebook want to bombard you with five ads in a 20-second video,…