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“Digitally literate” Gen Z and Millennials' pandemic experience shaped by social media
Younger people’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic was shaped by their savvy use of social media platforms, navigating mis- and dis-information, subjective content loops, big-tech algorithms and emerging “splinter platforms,” a new University of Melbourne report has found.
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Lisa Singh to lead the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne
Lisa Singh has been appointed as the new Director of the Australia India Institute (AII), the University’s centre dedicated to promoting support for and understanding of the Australia-India relationship.
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Assessing anti-Asian attitudes in the USA and Australia
Researchers from the University of Melbourne and University of Queensland have analysed negative attitudes towards Asian people in both the United States and Australia to better understand the factors that contribute to these prejudices.
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Global survey analyses Gen Z and Millennial’s use of media to understand COVID-19 pandemic
New research reveals while mainstream media remains the main go-to news source for Gen Z and Millennials, young people worldwide are relying on multiple platforms, such as social media, for information on the coronavirus (COVD-19) pandemic.
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Supporting communities to look after their precious objects
Port Fairy residents will be able to get expert advice on how to care for their precious items and memorabilia at a Collection Care Workshop supported by the University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation.
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Support for COVID-19 policy response and willingness to get vaccinated high, according to new survey
Support among Australians for the policy response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and willingness to get vaccinated is high, according to new University of Melbourne research.
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NGV Triennial partnership brings interdisciplinary research to world of art
The University of Melbourne is once again supporting the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) Triennial exhibition as research partner.
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Reckoning with Australia’s colonial archive: poet Natalie Harkin wins RAKA Prize
Narungga woman and South Australian poet, Natalie Harkin has won the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award for her work Archival-Poetics, an unflinching anthology that faces the violence the colony has inflicted on Indigenous women, and offers a roadmap for healing in the centuries ahead.
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Entry barriers for women are amplified by AI in recruitment algorithms, study finds
Human gender biases that limit recruitment opportunities for women are mimicked and exacerbated by artificial intelligence (AI) used for sorting resumés, according to new research.
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Living with COVID: New campaign aims to help young people understand COVID-19
A multidisciplinary team of University of Melbourne researchers has created an innovative public health campaign to help communicate coronavirus (COVID-19) to young people.
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Hearing language: 50 Words Project allows people to hear local Indigenous words
Working with Indigenous communities, researchers at the University of Melbourne have created a resource to help Australians connect with First Nations languages.
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Bear in a window: capturing children’s voices of the pandemic
A new project is giving a voice to Australian children, inviting them to share their experiences of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Important opportunities for workplace gender diversity media coverage: new report
Many gender diversity workplace issues can be explored more deeply by mainstream Australian print media, according to new research from the University of Melbourne.
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Counting our time under COVID-19: new survey on work and care
Researchers at the University of Melbourne are conducting a first-of-its-kind survey in Australia to find out how the time we spend on paid work, care and housework has changed because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Collaboration, curation in a time of COVID-19
University of Melbourne researchers are joining forces with Arizona State University and a network of overseas intuitions to create an archive of people’s experiences during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Distance influenced Australian coverage of Christchurch terror attack
New Zealand and Australian media coverage of the Christchurch mosque attack was poles apart, according to new research.
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Income inequality fuels status anxiety and sexualisation, research shows
Women’s appearance enhancement is driven partly by status anxiety and income inequality, according to new research.
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New society for open science launched
Dr Andrew Leigh MP has officially launched AIMOS (the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science), an organisation founded by academics from the University of Melbourne, Swinburne and Deakin Universities to promote the new academic field of meta-research aimed at improving scientific culture and practice in Australia and New Zealand.
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Philosophers make the case for global kidney exchange program
Three bioethicists have today published an argument in The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, in favour of a global kidney exchange (GKE) program that matches donors and recipients across low and middle-income countries with pairs in high income countries.
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Writer says 2002 play about deaths in custody is sadly still relevant
Richard Frankland is not surprised his 2002 play about deaths in custody, Conversations with the Dead, is being restaged or that the story is still topical.