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The social aspect of video games has been present from the early days of their development. From the communities and culture that arose around the early video arcades in the 1980’s (Skolnik & Conway 2019), through to the proliferation of social games such as Farmville on Facebook during the mid 2000’s. Due to the immersive …
Social media has been incorporated into nearly all areas of our life, with health and wellbeing information prevalent on all platforms. This content can take the form of messaging being directed towards us, such as posts and ads that comprise government health campaigns, or marketing messages to do with wellness and fitness for example. This …
The potential of the internet to network individuals together to create publics of mutual interest and achieve shared goals is one of its greatest strengths. This activity, either when directed by a central entity such as a government organisation, or spontaneously arising within the group has the potential to achieve significant results, and is generally …
The term trolling refers to a wide range of digital activity usually associated with behavior that would be deemed socially unacceptable if conducted in an offline, physical setting between individuals. Activity such as bullying, harassment, stalking and the abuse of others are conducted, quite often anonymously and generally without consequence to the perpetrators. There can …
We see a lot of visible signs of activism on modern social media platforms, from hashtag based movements like #blacklivesmatter, to online platforms to co-ordinate activism such as Getup and Change.org. Before the time of social media, the internet was still home to a wide variety of digital activism, with some of the earliest internet …
Social media has become a key medium for the discussion of political ideas and civil discourse over the past 15 years. Blogs, chat rooms and online forums have always been places of robust discussion and fierce opinion since the start of the internet. The launch of social media platforms such as Twitter, which launched in …
Social media sites offer the potential for a wide range of social experiences with people both locally and globally, opening up new levels of interaction and the possibility for community building and meaningful consensus building. The nature of these experiences are different on each platform, with widely different styles between platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, …
WordPress is one of the most popular ways to create a presence online for both businesses ,organisations and individuals. Recent figures state that 39.5% of all sites on the internet currently are built with WordPress (Southern, M 2021), and it has become the dominant content management system used by sites. (W3Techs, 2021). WordPress comes in …