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Roy Mehta via Getty Images If we learned anything from ex-Instagram model Essena O’Neill’s meta-announcement that “social media is not real life“, hopefully it was that media literacy is an essential skill that many people are still a bit crap at. Given we’re in an information age where we consume about 174 newspapers worth of knowledge daily, we’d benefit [...]
VIDEO: Boys on world affairs (ABC News) Young Australians are rarely heard talking frankly about their place in the world, the responsibility they feel to tackle the world's problems, the peer group pressures they face if they want to be popular, the demands to succeed at school and get a good job, and [...]
rosierespect.org.au Young women are now twice as likely as young men to develop mental illness, according to new research. And those who work to help girls navigate the pitfalls of growing up say the internet and social media are not helping. "We are really looking at the internet as 'it's a junkyard' — [...]
gettyimages It’s concerning to see boys at war with themselves and the world. But what if radicalisation held some powerful insights for us? Radicalisation isn’t new. Attractive to boys adrift from society, it has surfaced in gangs, neo Nazi groups, football hooliganism and the like. But never before has radicalisation gone global, or been so extreme. Traditionally it was boys from fractured or marginalised communities, lacking good male role models and surrounded by violent narratives, who were [...]
Anti-racism protesters during a rally against Reclaim Australia in Melbourne on April 4, 2015. Picture: Hamish Blair In a surprising result, the Scanlon Foundation’s 2015 Mapping Social Cohesion report found despite the rise of anti-Islam groups such as Reclaim Australia, Australians had not embraced racist views. In fact the experience of discrimination in [...]
free-stock-illustration The fear of missing out is an old, actually an ancient fear, being triggered by the newest form of communication: social media. Our survival as an individual within a tribe, and thus our survival as a species, once hinged on our being aware of threats both to ourselves and to the larger group. [...]
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk Innocent photos of children originally posted on social media and family blogs account for up to half the material found on some paedophile image-sharing sites, according to Australia's new Children's eSafety Commissioner. Mostly the images are posted by parents, who are unaware of how easily they can be downloaded and stored by friends or strangers. Tens of millions of photos of children doing everyday [...]
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Extreme selfie poseur, Kirill Oreshkin (still alive). The Russian government has launched a campaign against such dangerous photographs, which has led to the deaths of others. Photo: Facebook Which of these is more likely to kill you: a shark or a photograph? At least 11 people have died this year while trying to [...]
A recent edition of Zoo Weekly, www.smh.com.au Ms Pintur said Zoo Weekly "teaches boys that girls like me and my friends exist purely for their sexual use. I couldn't understand why Coles and Woolworths, which pride themselves in their corporate responsibility, family values, and care for their local communities could profit from selling this harmful product. By discontinuing Zoo, Coles has finally done the [...]
