Category Archives: Trends

AI & Social issues marketing in Australia

AI-powered chatbots can help people with anxiety and depression by engaging in personalised conversations and providing resources to manage their mental health

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Your Bully Has A Name: Relational Aggression in NSW Schools

Relational aggression is a form of bullying that can have a significant impact on a student’s well-being and academic performance. Teacher-to-Student relational aggression can take many forms, including: verbal abuse, exclusion, and humiliation. In NSW primary schools, where teachers may have a greater influence on the school culture and social dynamics, it is crucial to address teacher-to-student relational aggression effectively and the P&C can play an important role.

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FACEBOOK SHOWS IT’S CLAWS, as google shows some class

Google and Facebook are two Artificial Intelligence behemoths. To them, we are data points and have been for the better part of two decades. There is nothing that we think, do, say or act that they don’t have a detailed account of somewhere in the abyss of data that is ‘the cloud’. So as the Australian Government leads the first

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FB shows it’s claws

Google and Facebook are two Artificial Intelligence behemoths. To them, we are data points and have been for the better part of two decades. There is nothing that we think, do, say or act that they don’t have a detailed account of somewhere in the abyss of data that is ‘the cloud’. So as the Australian Government leads the first

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Up all night thanks to Online Gravity

Earlier in the week I received an inmail via LinkedIn from the overachieving Mr Paul McCarthy, letting me know his new book, Online Gravity  had been released. Very generously, he forwarded a copy via post. I first met Paul at a social media conference we were both presenting at last year and I was suitably excited for him. Last night, before heading

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Why Generation Next Must Be Nurtured

Tonight, I had the privilege of watching a young woman of The Women’s College within The University of Sydney bring the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall to rapturous applause and laughter. With nothing more than astute insight and articulate delivery, 19 year old Nicola kicked off question time at Anne Summers Conversations with aplomb. And I wasn’t the only Women’s

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Knowledge Production: A Social Process

Jacques Derrida claims that the process of writing is fundamentally changed by the way we write. Marshall McLuhan on the other hand points to the medium as ‘the message’, while German sociologist Niklas Luhmann opines ‘man is not able to communicate; only communication is able to communicate’. Three different men, three different opinions. Nothing new about that. Or is there?

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