Internet Culture
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YouTuber PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg) image
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Topics: social-media, internet-culture, united-states
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Topics: social-media, internet-culture, united-states
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Why YouTube is distancing itself from its most popular channel: PewDiePie
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YouTube and Disney cut ties with influential YouTube star PewDiePie after he posted several videos that were deemed anti-Semitic, including one where he paid Indians $5 to hold up signs reading "Death to all Jews".
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, united-states
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PewDiePie video showing men holding anti-Semitic sign image
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Topics: social-media, internet-culture, united-states
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Kids now spending more time online than watching TV (audio)
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Last year children spent an average of 12 hours a week online, compared to 10.5 hours spent in front of the TV, according to a survey of Australian kids aged six to 13.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, internet-culture, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, television, social-media, children, sydney-2000
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Internet love scam syndicates busted Video
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Dr Haji Amirudin Abdul Wahab, the CEO of Cyber-Security Malaysia about the arrest of dozens of men who had scammed millions of dollars from lonely women.
Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-culture, internet-technology, community-and-society, marriage, singapore, malaysia
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How the parties are using your Facebook profile to target you
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WA political parties are using Facebook data to target voters like never before using a game-changing strategy straight out of the Donald Trump election handbook.
Topics: government-and-politics, social-media, internet-culture, perth-6000
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App hopes to save endangered Indigenous Queensland language
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A unique partnership between a linguist, an app designer and a remote Aboriginal community is helping to ensure the survival of a rare Indigenous language.
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, internet-culture, information-and-communication, languages, university-and-further-education, research, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, gununa-4871
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Plastics harm turtles Video
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Plastics harm turtles
Topics: conservation, internet-culture, nsw
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Dating app matches lovers who can't stand selfies Opinion
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A new dating app aims to match lovers based on their mutual dislike of Donald Trump, slow drivers and butt selfies — it's going to change the world, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: popular-culture, relationships, internet-culture, social-media, offbeat
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Bob Brown lodges complaint over 'homophobic' Facebook slur (photos)
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A Facebook post implying former Greens leader Bob Brown enjoyed being manhandled by forestry workers during a protest will be the subject of an official complaint.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, gays-and-lesbians, tas
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Topics: ross-river-fever, internet-culture, wodonga-3690
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'Lego Farmer' tells story of Australian agriculture
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A tiny plastic farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green overalls does his bit to raise awareness of Australian agriculture.
Topics: rural, farm-labour, human-interest, offbeat, primary, education, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, tocumwal-2714, nsw
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Solitude is glory, but loneliness is pain. It's time to reach out Opinion
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We need to do more to stop the scourge of loneliness, writes Deirdre Fidge. If that means responding to an online ad for a fishing buddy, so be it.
Topics: relationships, welfare, mental-health, internet-culture, social-media
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Halal Snack Pack isn't a word: It's time to boycott Big Dictionary Opinion
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Hala Snack Pack is one of many awful 'words' awarded honorary status by the Macquarie Dictionary in recent years. Until the dignity of the dictionary is restored, Ben Pobjie is enforcing a 'lexiban'.
Topics: popular-culture, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media, english, australia
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Toxic masculinity: Will the 'war on men' only backfire?
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Fuelled partly by the rise of Donald Trump, the term 'toxic masculinity' has entered the mainstream, writes Hayley Gleeson. But not everyone agrees it's a positive development in gender relations.
Topics: feminism, men, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media, mens-health
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US government scientists go 'rogue' in defiance of Trump (photos)
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Employees from US government agencies establish a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle science.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, climate-change, united-states
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Assange not willing to be a 'complete idiot' over extradition
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up at London's Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, moves to clarify his offer to be extradited to the United States following alleged whistleblower Chelsea Manning's sentence being commuted.
Topics: security-intelligence, internet-culture, hacking, england, united-states, australia
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Trump's tweets are presidential records, but what about deletions and edits?
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A National Archives official says the US agency has yet to rule on whether it will be required to keep Donald Trump's altered or deleted tweets, which are considered as presidential records.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, social-media, internet-culture, united-states
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Fed up with fake news? Scientists may have a 'vaccine' for that
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The spread of fake news online leads scientists to develop a "vaccine" to inoculate the public against what they describe as the damaging effects of misleading myths about climate change.
Topics: information-and-communication, science-and-technology, internet-culture, social-media, community-and-society, england
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Marshallese catch up with digital communications after month-long internet sabbatical Audio
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The Marshall Islands are back online after repairs to the country's submarine fibre optic cable were completed at last.
Topics: internet-culture, pacific, marshall-islands
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Once @genderless_nipples ends sexism, then what? Opinion
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An Instagram account calling for 'nipple donations' seeks to smash sexist double standards on social media, writes Ben Pobjie. And we should all be terrified of what comes next.
Topics: feminism, youth, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media
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Outback internet service finally switched on
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A high-speed internet service built by graziers in north Queensland is finally switched on after a minor hold-up.
Topics: internet-culture, internet-technology, rural-media, richmond-4822, mount-isa-4825, townsville-4810
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Six new lolly flavours Australia needs now Opinion
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Confectionery brand Allen's is inviting the public to vote on new lolly flavours, but their choices are a little disappointing, writes Deirdre Fidge. Here are some better ideas.
Topics: youth, internet-culture, social-media, offbeat, popular-culture, australia
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Crowdfunding raises $50k for new ad campaign featuring girls in hijabs
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More than 1,000 people give money to fund an advertising campaign featuring two girls in hijabs, after an Australia Day billboard which used their photo was taken down following complaints.
Topics: multiculturalism, community-and-multicultural-festivals, internet-culture, advertising, information-and-communication, community-and-society, cranbourne-3977, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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