Who’s to blame for the mayhem that social media creates in the virtual and real worlds?
The world’s richest man and X owner Elon Musk? Harvard drop-out, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg? Or is it the Chinese behemoths WeChat, WeBo and TikTok? None of them. It’s us - ordinary folk like you and me who became infatuated with our smartphones. We got sucked into the vanity game of pursuing connections, likes and influence. We paid the price, giving away our personal deets and opening our lives for leveraging by the tech titans. We sold control, just as businesses, community groups and public authorities sold control by becoming dependent on those channels too.
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2024 Edelman survey finds growing trust in government in Australia - and 3 ways to supercharge that25/3/2024 Australians trust government, according to the much-anticipated 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer results. Almost.
The barometer put Australia’s trust ranking at 50% - an improvement of 5 percentage points on the previous year. This makes us 11th, or better than mid-table, on the ladder of 28 global countries surveyed. It means Australians, on the whole, have moved from distrusting government to now being in neutral territory. |
AuthorStuart Howie is a Canberra-based media and communications strategist. He has worked with private and public organisations in Australia and New Zealand, helping them to discover, shape and tell their stories. He is the author of The DIY Newsroom, which won the social media/technology category at the Australian Business Book Awards. Categories
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