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  • Prevalence and attitudes of Māori teenagers about sexting

    Prevalence and attitudes of Māori teenagers about sexting

    In late 2017 NetSafe released a research report about New Zealand teenage sexting. NetSafe state that the report was the first time this type of research had been completed in New Zealand and that it is a snap shot that they hoped would be a springboard for more research. This report analyzes the NetSafe research…

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  • Digital Whakapapa and image considerations

    Digital Whakapapa and image considerations

    Digitising whakapapa records and images of tipuna to be shared on the Internet is increasingly becoming common practice without any discussion about the consequences. Internet protection agencies such as NetSafe have no cultural resources to advise Maori of potential issues. Whakapapa and tipuna images including images of the dead, that are accessed via wifi Internet…

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  • Keyboard warrior definition

    Keyboard warrior definition

    The definition of a keyboard warrior is often used by non technically literate people as a derogatory term applied to online trolls/cyberbully and people who are online activists using technology to fight and raise concerns for a cause. Warrior is a term often reserved for elite special forces, learned people of fighting arts and experts of contact sports.…

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  • Digital whakapapa, where is it – Digital authorship and founders?

    Digital whakapapa, where is it – Digital authorship and founders?

    The nature of the web and digital technologies leads Māori ICT organisations, kupu hou creation, Māori related software, web sites and digital tools to by default, ignore whakapapa in the digital world. I have already spoken widely about tikanga in the digital world on my site. Māori stories from many generations ago remind us of the early…

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  • Warning: Twitter spam targeting Māori

    Warning: Twitter spam targeting Māori

    The past 48 hours we has seen a large concentrated Twitter spam attack targeting Māori using popular key words and soft pornography. This is the first time Māori has been targeted in a spam campaign on Twitter and there appears to be no real reason or justification for it. On the surface it appears as…

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  • te reo Māori Spam brings te reo Māori into 21st Century

    With so much emphasis on te reo Māori being normalised; it looks as though spammers are now using Google Translate to translate spam into te reo Māori according to Robyn Gallagher http://www.robyngallagher.com/2014/01/11/te-reo-Māori-419-spam/ . Is this a new avenue of normalisation albeit an annoying but normal part of our online lives? I suspect so! and that…

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  • NZ-Aus Social Media statistics

    New Zealand and Australia statistics of FaeBook.

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