I felt like an alien when I logged back in after a four-year hiatus. Now I post clickbait like the rest, says Rebecca Davis.
Filmmaker Tarryn Crossman’s second documentary film, Timelines, is a story about death in the digital age.
Twitter is driving real pan-Africanism – in absolute terms, Egypt actually tweeted more on #FeesMustFall than SA, and Biafra was big in Gabon.
The Mail & Guardian’s health centre, Bhekisisa, joins the World Health Organisation in raising awareness about TB on World TB Day on March 24.
For the first time, online and social media texts are being regulated alongside printed material
Certain tactics win. Short and fast beats long and detailed. The headline becomes incredibly important, especially the one that appears on Facebook.
Sparrow received threats after her "monkey" comment on Facebook went viral. What does the law say?
Social media lesson 101: If you post something bigotted you will be digitally sjambokked by the Twitter backlash. This is not obvious to everyone.
US presidential candidate is using TV coverage and the power of the social web to publicise his campaign.
With the potential for retribution and exposure comes an increased potential for retraumatising the victim.
Here’s a handy 10-point etiquette guide to "liking" stuff on social networks.
Opera Software’s latest State of the Mobile Web report has revealed that the Philippines is the most active country on social media.
Empathy from the council? The City of Johannesburg’s social media man gives service delivery gripes a human touch.
User-generated content can be both a media boon and a minefield, with hoaxes and propaganda competing with bona fide eyewitness accounts.
Virtual communities need to realise that the tweet can be more powerful than the bullet in this world of cyberterrorist realities.
Reckon you’re a great African blogger, Instagrammer, tweeter, YouTuber or Facebooker? Then enter this year’s African Blogger Awards.
The social network denied it was hacked, after a tweet suggested that hacking group Lizard Squad had been responsible for the outage.
Facebook and Instagram being down on Tuesday morning kept social media users frustrated as they struggled to post pictures of their breakfast.
A study has revealed that sharing your misery on social media platforms can be contagious, but it also shows that others care.
Even funerals and pilgrimages are falling prey to the compulsion to self-snap, writes Sean O’Toole.
Barcelona and Real Madrid lead the way on social media as Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool try to keep up.
Militants are using the power of the net to create a militant network with near global reach, and GCHQ says it needs greater access to combat this.
A social media report found that there is significant gender balance in South Africans’ use of Facebook, which is also SA’s favourite social network.
The first Social Media Week Johannesburg will join dozens of other cities in an event to aid people to achieve more in a "hyper-connected" world.
Women celebrities are changing the language of social media, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
In the same way that social media can make world news out of small miracles, it can also transform a regional conflict into a world war.
The recent arrest of ‘Sunday Mail’ editor Edmund Kudzayi on charges of terrorism indicates foreboding times for the Zimbabwean media.
Social media has caused weighty struggles for Coca-Cola, the world’s most famous beverages company.
Social media exposed more than 300-million internet users to this year’s State of the Nation address, from the red carpet to the speech itself.
As Facebook turns 10, Haji Mohamed Dawjee takes a tour of a day in the life of the social media app.
A man and woman have been jailed for using Twitter to abuse a prominent feminist.
"Friendvertising" is the latest trick by marketers who want you to sell their brand.