Social Media
Auckland High School bans messaging app
An Auckland High School has banned the anonymous messaging app yik yak after a student led campaign to stop bullying. Yik Yak allows people to anonymously create and view messages or "Yaks" within a… Audio
Party mayhem and social media
Police are increasingly worried about how their jobs are getting more dangerous because of social media. Audio
Shaming people the modern way
Scarlet Letters and stockades, tools to shame wrong doers, are making a comeback in a very modern way according to journalist and author Jon Ronson. He meets several ordinary people whose lives were… Audio
Health App creator, Siobhan Bulfin
New Zealand entrepreneur Siobhan Bulfin has built a company from scratch which harnesses social media for social good. Social Code, which develops mobile apps to help patients manage their health, is… Audio
Online lives - The Wireless
Writer, director, and actress Lena Dunham says that while there are a lot of people she loves on Twitter, it's impossible to find them without reading things telling her that she should be "buried… Audio
Social media and distraction
Finlay MacDonald and Mike Hutcheson on 'Distractions'. Audio
Death threats over dangerous dog in Kapiti
The Kapiti mayor has called in the police and tightened security after death threats to council staff over a dangerous dog that's about to be put down. Audio
How to get people off their screens and onto the streets to make social change happen
Russell Brown talks about activism online and on the streets with Marianne Elliott, Nicky Hager, Matthew Hooton and Laura O'Connell Rapira. Audio
Law with Nick Russell
What are your rights when someone attacks you on a blog, Facebook or Twitter? Nick Russell from Chen Palmer discusses online attacks. Audio
Acushla Dee O Carroll - Social Media and Māori Culture
Keyboard Warrior or Kānohi ki te Kānohi? How do you maintain your links to your hapū, iwi, marae and whanau? In 2010 Acushla began her research for her PhD thesis about the impact social media placed… Audio
Instameet
Why we shouldn't be spamming people across too many social networking sites and why cropping is an instagrammers best friend. Audio
All Together Now
How posting on social media can intensify emotions if and when people choose to share an important life events online, with A. Prof. Catalina Toma from the Department of Communication Arts of… Audio
Web review with Ben Gracewood
The notion that Facebook Makes Us Unhappy. He also examines the situation in the UK where school children as young as five are expected to learn to write code. Audio
Internet virality expert Emerson Spartz
Entrepeneur Emerson Spartz is, at 26 years of age, a world expert in internet virality. As CEO of Spartz Inc, he runs one of the fastest-growing digital media publishers with 160 million page views… Audio
Harnessing the power of Social Media - Macon Phillips
With President Obama's former director of digital strategy, Macon Phillips. Audio
Brand value
Itamar Simonson is a Professor of Marketing at Stanford University, and in his book Absolute Value he argues that brands are becoming less important in the digital age. Audio
Clive Thompson: the internet is making us smarter
NY Times journalist Clive Thompson, says the internet is making us smarter, social media is changing the way we think, and the way we make connections. Audio
In our buzzing, constant, real-time world, communication is increasingly digital
Russell Brown talks with Rosabel Tan, Judge David Harvey, and Troy Rawhiti-Forbes Audio
TED Radio Hour: The Power of Crowds
Technology-enabled collaboration draws us closer, makes us smarter, and allows us to innovate through the wisdom of a crowd. A new wave of collaborative consumption is transforming consumerism and the… Audio
