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Sponsors of the Sydney radio station part-owned by Alan Jones have started pulling advertising after his comments about the death of Julia Gillard's father sparked a flood of complaints. 2GB star Jones was forced to publicly apologise yesterday after declaring Ms Gillard's late father John Gillard had died of "shame" because of her "lies" at [...]
Another week, another call for social media to be part of the Australian schooling curriculum. For what it’s worth I wholeheartedly endorse any approach that is more proactive and meaningful to the way we currently address social media in schools. Imagine for a second if we taught our teenagers to drive a car in the [...]
AUSTRALIA'S peak medical body has censured the social media giant Facebook for allowing alcohol companies to target children. The Australian Medical Association released its report yesterday into the alcohol industry's growing profile in social media circles. Within hours of the release of the report, Facebook representatives sought a meeting with the association to discuss their [...]
The Bratz Doll website has copped criticism from health experts, who are outraged over advertisements for alcohol, energy drinks, junk food and dating services on the site targeted at young girls. The website, which also offers Snow White and My Little Pony games, automatically plays 30 second ads prior to the games starting. Everything from [...]
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) held an alcohol summit in Canberra on Wednesday, examining the ways young Australians are wooed into drinking. The association fears the industry is grooming youngsters to drink by using social media sites such as Facebook, sponsoring sports teams and producing alcohol-flavoured foods. Jim Beam came up with bourbon-tasting chips to [...]
Frequent social network use releases dopamine in response to online interactions, setting up a potentially addictive cycle, according to Steve Daviss of the Baltimore Washington Medical Center to USA Today."There's good evidence the feedback we get from technology -- the retweets and bings and pings that come out of the phone every time somebody sends [...]
What have we learned about Social Media this week? This week three schoolgirls were suspended for posting a mockumentary video on Youtube, in which they offered sexual favours saying they were, “Offering a public service that would help prevent unwanted sexual attacks on others.” Michael Carr-Gregg said it was a spectacular failure of the SA [...]
Using social media Web sites is among the most common activity of today's children and adolescents. Any Web site that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter; gaming sites and virtual worlds such as Club Penguin, Second Life, and the Sims; video sites [...]
The Australian Government's Easy Guide to Socialising Online provides information on how internet users can protect themselves and their information when using social networking sites, search engines and online games. via Home | Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
