Laura Demasi
Laura Demasi is a social researcher with a keen eye for the way digital technologies affect us
Ending piracy will take more than just making the content available
Now that local streaming services have been in Australia for a while, has the rate of piracy slowed?
- by Laura Demasi
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Why today's teens are choosing 'real' friends over Facebook friends
Australian teens no longer live and breath Facebook, turning instead to messaging apps like WhatsApp and Kick to create micro networks of "real" friends where they can say what they want in private, away from the ever present eyes of hundreds of "friends" – including their parents.
- by Laura Demasi
Rage against the machine – before it's too late
The inevitability of science fiction becoming 'science reality' has been put front and centre of the public agenda this week by Stephen Hawking, who has warned against a future of artificial intelligence gone mad. Quite literally.
- by Laura Demasi
'Generation Free': How teens have no concept of paying for content online
Forget generation Z – today's youngsters are generation "free" when it comes to how they consumer music and TV content.
- by Laura Demasi
TVs' important family role in digital revolution
Why TV has become the unlikely new "family" time in an age defined by "alone time" with smart screens.
- by Laura Demasi
Love in the age of Tinder: how users really feel about app dating
Love me tender Tinder… not. By all reports, people's interactions on Tinder are anything but tender — a universe away from the swoony stuff of the 1956 Elvis classic.
- by Laura Demasi
Four myths about online piracy, who’s doing it and why
A new study has shed more light onto why Australians are so keen to grab content anyway they can.
- by Laura Demasi
Don’t blame Facebook – the narcissists have always been there
Laura Demasi looks at the me-media world and asks the questions worth pondering over.
- by Laura Demasi
You shape it: the future of technology is in your hands, not Siri's or Cortana's
No one knows the future of technology, but one thing is certain – like everything else, it will be shaped by the market.
- by Laura Demasi
Why no one cares about privacy
If the sheer frequency of headlines is anything go by, you could be forgiven for believing that Australians everywhere are up in arms over their privacy online. But that's not the case.
- by Laura Demasi
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/by/laura-demasi-11cka7