#Cyberculture agenda: A “New Landmark Study on Online Gendered Abuse and Disinformation”.. “Google unions around the world form Alpha Global alliance”

https://ift.tt/2Mtxqce

New Landmark Study on Online Gendered Abuse and Disinformation

Oxford Internet Institute – News by Sara Spinks 

25 January 2021 Oxford Internet Institute

Online gendered and sexualized abuse and disinformation against women in public life is widespread, and social media platforms are doing too little to stop it, finds a landmark study by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Moonshot CVE, with support from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford.

“Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online” explores gendered abuse and disinformation targeting 13 female politicians across six social media platforms over two months in late 2020. In an analysis of over 336,000 pieces of abusive content shared by over 190,000 users, the research team found:

 

Twitter is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free

The Verge – Nick Statt – Jan 26, 11:00 AM

Twitter on Tuesday announced a significant shift in the type of data it makes available for free to third-party academic researchers interested in studying user behaviors and trends related to online discourse. Now, Twitter says it will no longer

Enabling the future of academic research with the Twitter API

Twitter

By Adam Tornes and ‎@leanne_tru‎ Tuesday, 26 January 2021 When we introduced the next generation of the Twitter API in July 2020, we also shared our plans to invest in the success of the academic research community with tailored

The Rise of One of the First Video Game Workers Unions

Wired Top Stories by Sarah Jaffe /

What began as a Facebook group, and then a chat on Discord, soon became a massive campaign to remedy grueling working conditions across the industry.

Google unions around the world form Alpha Global alliance

The Social Software Weblog

Various Alphabet unions have joined forces and created a global alliance called Alpha Global. It was created with some help from UNI Global, a federation of unions that represents 20 million workers from a variety of fields including the technology i…

An intro to the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence

MIT News by Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence /

The field of artificial intelligence is moving at a staggering clip, with breakthroughs emerging in labs across MIT. Through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), undergraduates get to join in. In two years, the MIT Quest for Intelligence has placed 329 students in research projects aimed at pushing the frontiers of computing and artificial intelligence, and using these tools to revolutionize how we study the brain, diagnose and treat disease, and search for new materials with mind-boggling properties.

The Bernie Sanders Meme Proves the Internet Is Resetting

Wired Top Stories by Angela Watercutter

Well, that and the fact that @POTUS now follows Chrissy Teigen.

The post #Cyberculture agenda: A “New Landmark Study on Online Gendered Abuse and Disinformation”.. “Google unions around the world form Alpha Global alliance” appeared first on Erkan's Field Diary.

No related posts.

Vía Erkan’s Field Diary https://ift.tt/3puyPy4