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  • Māori are still prominent victims of online bullying

    Māori are still prominent victims of online bullying according to the latest research by Action Station discussing impacts and usefulness of the Harmful Digital Communications Act (HDCA) a  powerful piece of legislation that was enacted to address the issue of online abuse. However it is not sufficient to address every issue of online hate, harassment…

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  • Online Māori Scams – careful of the scuzzie

    Online Māori Scams – careful of the scuzzie

    Online Māori are increasingly becoming targets of direct ethnic online scams that utilise our culture to try to take advantage of Māori. The latest scam involves someone on Facebook, Instagram, Phone message and other social media claiming to he one of the whanau, a cuzzie. The scams are sophisticated and take a bit of effort.…

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  • Young Māori favor an online pornography filter

    Young Māori favor an online pornography filter

    An analysis of Māori data from the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) report titled “Research findings of a survey on how and why Young New Zealanders view online pornography” published in December 2018. The complete report is available from https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5425697/NZYouthandPorn.pdf A young person is a person aged between 14 and 17. The report…

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  • Māori Experiences of Online Hate Speech

    This article extracts Māori specific information from the NetSafe report titled “Personal Experiences of Online Hate Speech and offers personal analysis of their results and my personal experience with online hate. I have critiqued the definitions used int he survey. That critique is at the end of the article. Māori appear to be statistically better off…

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  • Cyber Safety issues for Maori

    Culture and Context in Online Safety Session at the Crossroads. Notes from the panel discussion I was involved with at the NetSafety conference Crossroads.   The latest Internet Safety research from NetSafe shows that Māori are again over represented in negative statistics, this time for being victims of online abuse in its various forms. On the…

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  • Māori teens are more likely to be victims of online predators

    Māori teens, especially girls and those with a disability are at higher risk than any other ethnic group in New Zealand to be harassed and to receive unsolicited nude images. The latest NetSafe report shows that Māori are more likely to be harassed online via unwanted communications. The most common types of unwanted digital communications…

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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

    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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