Why social media is in the doghouse for both the pollies and the public
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
The Labor Party’s recent decision to ban its candidates from using their own social media accounts as publicity platforms at the next federal election may be a sign that society’s infatuation with social media as a source of news and information is cooling.
Good evidence for this emerged recently with the publication of the 2018...
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