With virus restrictions changing throughout the pandemic and misinformation widespread on social media, good communication was necessary to make sure the right message got across.

The internet is wonderful. Its accessibility allows us to freely learn, create, connect and more. But sometimes, freedom leads to mischief that can result in online harms.

Whenever intergenerational animosity surfaces, barbs such as “boomers are out of touch”, “millennials are entitled” and “Gen Zs are softies …

With more countries adopting legislation to tackle digital violence, there is hope in the battle against online abuse, write Sun Sun Lim of the Singapore University of Technology and Design and Roland Bouffanais of the University of Ottawa.

Even though the entire workforce has been allowed back to the workplace, the jury is still out as to whether the Great Return to the Office will take place across the board.

Prof Lim Sun Sun writes for the Straits Times in a monthly column on technology and society.

As their final project for the course 02.126 Southeast Asia under Japan: Motives, Memoirs, and Media, students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul designed a voluminous online repository for primary and secondary sources related to studying the occupation of Southeast Asia by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

Under Singapore’s fake news law, ministers can order websites, social media platforms and individual users to take down a piece of falsehood or ask for corrections to be put up alongside it.

Animal Crossing and Covid-19: A qualitative study of how a video game offered psychological sanctuary during the pandemic (top paper at the Game Studies Division)

ScreenLife Capture: A privacy-respecting, open-source, and user-friendly framework for collecting screenome data (on the top paper panel of the Mobile Communication Interest Group)