Social Media

Research shows 15-24-year olds are switching off from the likes of TVNZ and RNZ and reaching for TikTok and YouTube. Can they be brought back? Audio

When the heavens opened last weekend, some channels of official information closed. Emergency management agencies and the news media both copped criticism for lagging behind events - and behind social… Audio

74-year-old English gardener Gerald Stratford has become popular on social media for his giant vegetables and sweet disposition. He chats to Evie Ashton about the futility of anger and "going global… Audio

Jo Morris, also known as Jo the Write Coach has almost 14,000 followers on TikTok and some of her short videos offering tips on everything from grammar to writing tips have garnered hundreds of… Audio

Technology correspondent Peter Griffin looks at how the country's video games industry has become a creative powerhouse, generating $407m in the last financial year, and is now under threat from tax… Audio

Social media giant Meta claims it has new tools to prevent online predators targeting teens on Facebook and Instagram. It says it's improving privacy settings to help prevent teens from connecting… Audio

Since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm, the social media platform Twitter has been all a-flutter. As former tweeters head over to the new social network Mastodon, we find out how it… Audio

The teenage years are difficult enough, without adding the challenges of social media and the impact it has on growing brains. We put a fence children when they're toddlers, so do we need to put a… Audio

The world’s richest person put US$44 billion to make Twitter his personal property. Social media pioneer Evan Henshaw-Plath - who co-founded Twitter’s forerunner Odeo - is now here in New Zealand… Audio

FBoy Island controversy; TVNZ's boss on the concerns about the public media merger aired on Parliamentary hearings; can epic-scale social media platforms be hacked down to size? Audio

New Zealand is leading a bid to break open social media’s secret algorithms as part of The Christchurch Call  response, with backing from some big tech outfits. But without input from the biggest… Video, Audio

Lincoln University graduate Anna Craig has overhauled the marketing story for her family's free range egg farming business in North Otago. Audio

Technology correspondent Dr Dennis Desmond joins Susie to talk about the big changes Meta is introducing to Facebook that will make it run along the lines of TikTok - why do some think this will mark… Audio

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt says he knows why the last 10 years in America have been "uniquely stupid". Perhaps unsurprisingly, he lays the blame squarely on social media platforms like… Audio

Many of us go through life as if one day, eventually, we might get through everything on our to-do lists and satisfy everybody's demands. This is simply impossible, says writer Oliver Burkeman, so we… Video, Audio

In 'Listening to Kenny G,' director Penny Lane traces the saxophonist's rise from his start as a high school musician in Seattle through to the current day, highlighting what makes him tick and why… Audio

The Internet hasn’t just disrupted the media business in this millennium so far: it’s transformed it - and, in some cases, overwhelmed it. As he steps down after two decades at Internet NZ, Jordan… Audio

In Dr Arika Okrent's latest book, Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme - and Other Oddities of the English Language, the linguist examines the weirdness of the English language… Audio