Not all that long ago, CIOs and IT managers were listening to the grumblings of many of their business colleagues who wanted to shut down or ban employee access to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. However, the tide of opinion may be moderating, as some significant "business benefits" for workplace social networking have shown up on the radar. In this program, Alan Brill, senior managing director for technology...

THE GLASS BEDROOM is a six part series profiling six Australian artists who use Instagram to create bold new works to share with their thousands of followers. The series will take viewers inside the ‘glass bedrooms’ of these Instagram artists, to explore the relationship between authenticity, identity, and social media in their work. The series was commissioned for Art Bites a joint initiative from ABC Television and Screen Australia, with Screen...

A comprehensive overview of why social media works and how to use it to drive traffic to your website and fan pageA proven process to attract followers and fans and convert them into customers and clientsThe latest updates and step-by-step guidelines for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as more niche platforms like Instagram and PinterestTips on why, when, and how to use online advertisingEssential advice on content marketing and targeted...

Today’s youth are constantly bombarded with “news” often reduced to edible sound bites. Television and movie stars are modern day Photoshopped gods, propagating unattainable beauty standards to impressionable young minds. Illusion and delusion surround us more than ever before with marketing and advertising operating in a way where anything goes to manipulate the masses. Explore the Millennial phenomenon, how prevalent social and technology...

"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...

"American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth--and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including...

This feature documentary reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook, and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle and powerful manner in which they do it. Offering first-hand accounts, scientific experiments and detailed analysis, the film examines what is at risk when these tech titans have free reign to utilize the public’s most private and personal data.

"To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst--but Kayleigh needs money. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. It's grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing...

Sextortion was invented by one woman in the Philippines, Maria Caparas. She turned the idea of making friends online and recording explicit video chats into a profitable blackmail and extortion scam that could not exist without social media. She now runs a mini empire seemingly beyond the reach of authorities, that has led to many suicides.

Drugs, guns, counterfeit documents and much more are sold on dark web marketplaces that run on anonymous browsers and using cryptocurrency. AlphaBay was the biggest marketplace, transacting over US{dollar}800,000 in a day enabling its founder to live a luxury lifestyle in anonymity, until international law enforcement caught up with him.