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Social media – the death knell of the death knock

Floral tributes at Bondi Junction

Two recent events in Australia have again brought to the fore the impacts social media are having on life in general and the media in particular.
The first was a mass stabbing at a crowded shopping mall in the upscale eastern suburbs of Sydney. The second also began with a stabbing, and demonstrated how social media could quickly magnify a relatively mundane crime into a street riot. Read More

Social media are mixed blessings for journalists

New media on iPhone in hand

It is hard to imagine life without social media – or to remember the world before it. Whether you love them or hate them, use or avoid them, social media have been enormously influential, almost as powerful as the internet itself. That is partly because even those people not directly linked, liked, shared or tweeted on social media find themselves inescapably swimming in the social media soup created by everyone else. Read More