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Young girls in Malaysia are finding a safe space in social media networks.

3 Jan 2018 5 minute read

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A group of one’s own

For young girls across the Muslim world, social media has become a therapeutic medium. Hussein Kesvani ...

19 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Laughing and crying online

Social media use is correlated with mental health problems. But is it simply cause and effect? Marcus Gilroy-Ware...

5 Apr 2016 2 minute read

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Support a new internationalism

To continue in this new digital age, New Internationalist needs your help. Chris Spannos...

25 Jan 2016 4 minute read

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‘If you want to know the truth, read the Qur’an, not <em>The Daily Mail</em>’

Comedian Shazia Mirza is fed up at having to apologize for the actions of deranged individuals who claim to...

1 Nov 2015 7 minute read

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Is social media doing social harm?

Meredith L Patterson and Deanna Zandt go head to head.

1 Jan 2015 5 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

More noise than signal

Micah L Sifry assesses the political limits of social media.

10 May 2013 3 minute read

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Leave mums alone

As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with...

9 Apr 2013 3 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Kenya’s political cyber war

Tension that manifested itself in physical violence after the 2007 general election has moved to social media for 2013,...

Global solidarity for Palestinian hunger strikers

18 Dec 2012 4 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Global solidarity for Palestinian hunger strikers

Noreen Sadik fears that time is running out for Ayman Sharawana and Samer Issawi, refusing food in Israeli...

30 Nov 2012 3 minute read

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Boycott Facebook for a day

Symon Hill won’t be ‘liking’ anything on 1 December because of the social network’s shady tax affairs.

Cyber criminals nailed by Chennai police

26 Oct 2012 3 minute read

This article is almost 11 years old.

Cyber criminals nailed by Chennai police

Mari Marcel Thekaekara is heartened by some good news – but there’s a long way to go.

30 Jul 2012 3 minute read

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Olympic scale foul: sexism in football

After the British women’s team beat Cameroon, Xanna Ward-Dixon was horrified by the sexist reaction.

25 Apr 2011 5 minute read

This article is more than 12 years old.

Social Media, Anti-Social Ends

'Perhaps social media doesn’t kill people, it’s governments that kill people, and Western tech firms just follow the law. But...

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