Media - internet and society

Keeping children safe online

John Bambenek | 15 March 2007

It hardly restricts our freedom to filter pornography out of the web in schools and libraries.

Netiquette rules - OK?

Carolyn Moynihan | 30 January 2007

Messaging techniques are so convenient it is easy to overlook the pitfalls of not communicating in real time.

Wikipedia: garbage in, garbage out

John Bambenek | 05 January 2007 | comment 6

Not every internet pundit is a fan of the world's biggest encyclopaedia.

Beating the Bebo addiction

Luison Lassala | 17 November 2006 | comment 3

Social networking websites like Bebo and MySpace are a common feature of teenagers' lives. How should parents react?

Google, YouTube and Web 2.0

John Bambenek | 02 November 2006 | comment 2

Would you pay US$1.65 billion for a video-viewing site which started up less than two years ago?

FOCUS ON BLOGGING
Will blogs destroy English?

Michael Cook | 01 September 2006

Never before have so many people written their thoughts for the world. Will English literature survive the flood?

FOCUS ON BLOGGING
Who needs drugs? I’ve got a blog

John Bambenek | 31 August 2006 | comment 1

With more than 50 million blogs on the internet, it’s clear that too many people have too much time on their hands.

FOCUS ON BLOGGING
It’s dog eat dog in the blogosphere’s food chain

Matthew Mehan | 31 August 2006 | comment 5

Nature may be red in tooth and claw, but it's kind compared to the evolutionary struggle for supremacy amongst bloggers.

Numbing down: the effects of playing with violence

Carolyn Moynihan | 23 August 2006

Packaged to look like fun, violent video games can do serious damage by killing sensitivity to real violence, says an expert in the field.

It’s a Wiki world out there

Michael Cook | 18 December 2005

A defamatory entry in the on-line encyclopaedia Wikipedia has put one of the internet’s great success stories under the spotlight.

The $100 laptop

Michael Cook | 03 December 2005

The IT world is abuzz with excitement about a project to hook up millions of children in poor countries to the internet. Have all the bases been covered?

Stemming the tide of internet porn

Michael Cook | 03 September 2005 | comment 1

It's commonly thought that filtering objectionable sites and email from the internet is virtually impossible. It's not true: we just have to try.

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