How social media platforms can contribute to dehumanizing people
A recent analysis of discourse on Facebook highlights how social media and an individual's sense of identity can be used to dehumanize entire groups of people.
A recent analysis of discourse on Facebook highlights how social media and an individual's sense of identity can be used to dehumanize entire groups of people.
Social Sciences
May 20, 2020
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A new study examined how well American states are using Internet-based platforms to disseminate electoral information and communicate with voters. The study, which focused on website information provided on electoral administrators' ...
Political science
Apr 14, 2020
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Books are always transforming. The book we hold today has arrived through a number of materials (clay, papyrus, parchment, paper, pixels) and forms (tablet, scroll, codex, kindle).
Education
Feb 28, 2020
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Artificial intelligence-based (AI) programs are quickly improving at writing convincingly on many topics, for virtually no cost. It's likely in a few years they'll be churning out C-grade worthy essays for students.
Education
Jan 24, 2020
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A new report published by the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence examines the four models of "fake news" factories employed in the political battlegrounds of the Philippines in an effort to understand this ...
Political science
Dec 27, 2019
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Managers and those who evaluate the performance of others, whether in the workplace or on the sporting field, are likely to be often confusing luck with skill, and over rewarding those who are just lucky, a new study reveals.
Economics & Business
Nov 18, 2019
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The state of New South Wales (NSW) in south eastern Australia is continuing to experience devastating bushfires due to the dry tinder-like atmosphere in the territory: high winds, dry lightning and continuing heat. Approximately ...
Environment
Nov 14, 2019
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A top marine biologist has urged Thailand's government to speed up conservation plans for the dugong, an imperiled sea mammal, after their death toll for the year in Thai waters has already climbed to a record 21.
Ecology
Oct 3, 2019
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The Sensitivity Conjecture has stood as one of the most important, and baffling, open problems in theoretical computer science for nearly three decades. It appears to have finally met its match through work by Hao Huang, ...
Mathematics
Jul 10, 2019
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A German state government announced plans Thursday to shut down the region's Facebook page because of concerns over the company's handling of data protection issues.
Internet
Jun 13, 2019
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