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Paper de académicos de la U de Chile gana premio internacional

Un equipo del Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Educación (IE) y del CIAE, busca desarrollar un método automático que analice discursos docentes, usando algoritmos y una aplicación de reconocimiento de texto. El paper, que forma parte de esta investigación, fue reconocido como el mejor de la décima Conferencia Internacional Mis4TEL.Hace al menos 5 años que un equipo de investigadores del CIAE, que hoy pertenece al Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Educación de la U. de Chile, está trabajando en esto.

El río, la montaña, el bosque ¿Tienen derechos?

La redacción de nueva constitución abre la posibilidad de considerar a la naturaleza como un sujeto de derecho. Si bien los expertos de la Universidad de Chile Liliana Galdamez, Álvaro Promis y Javier Simonetti lo consideran un paso necesario, señalan que solo es el primero de muchos.

Periodistas y comunicadores concluyen taller de género y comunicación

La Dirección de Igualdad de Género y el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), en coordinación con la Dirección de Comunicaciones del plantel, realizaron este espacio de reflexión y aprendizaje, que finalizó este jueves y en el que participaron 50 profesionales comunicadores de diferentes unidades y áreas de la institución.Fortalecer las competencias conceptuales y habilidades para el desarrollo de comunicaciones institucionales con perspectiva de género.

Where Is US Election Misinformation Coming From? Hint: It's Not Russia

The Week in Internet News: Tech Giants Face Hostile Lawmakers

Getting hit from both sides: Executives from Google, Twitter, and Facebook faced criticism from all sides when testifying in the U.S. Senate recently, the Washington Post reports. Democratic senators told the companies they should do a better job with moderating their sites for fake news and conspiracy theories, while Republicans called on the companies to take a more hands-off role with political speech.

More important than ever! Social Platform Governance during and after the 2020 US Presidential Election

The 2020 US Presidential Election has shown that practices of social platform governance and content moderation decisions are more crucial than ever. While the transparency of these algorithmic systems remains low, they might crucially affect public opinion formation of the electorate and need to be therefore more accessible and better understood by researchers and policymakers.

Designing the Politics of Public Data for Public Events: A Conversation with Designer & Programmer Joel Galvez

When web developer Joel Galvez quit Facebook, he realized he had no accessible overview of events anymore – ‘newsletters and Instagram are just not the same, they give glimpses, but they don’t tell you what you could do this Saturday’. That’s why he started his project Public Data for Public Events (publicdata.events), a simple, low-tech, FLOSS solution, where you can curate your

Presentazione del libro: "Schiavi del clic - Perché lavoriamo tutti per il nuovo capitalismo?"

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Antonio A. Casilli (Faculty Fellow Centro Nexa)
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Forschung: Ausschreibungen für neue Förderformate am bidt

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​Vortex technology developed by NTU spin-off speeds up cooling while saving energy

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It’s the End of an Era for the Media, No Matter Who Wins the Election

How disinformation infiltrated the mainstream

133° Mercoledì di Nexa - Software Preservation in Networked Art

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David Schmudde (Software Engineer)
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81° Nexa Lunch Seminar - From equality to equity: an interdisciplinary perspective on mitigating algorithmic unfairness in ranking systems

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Elena Beretta (Centro Nexa)
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How Three Election-Related Falsehoods Spread

Disinformation in 2020

Big Tech Needs an Entirely New Business Model

Dr. Jacques Bughin Shares New Research Insights about the Success and Failure of Digital Transformation Worldwide

This summary is provided as part of our Dialogue on Digital Transformation series.

Dark Patterns and the CCPA

This past spring, while the pandemic was worsening around us and the first shelter in place orders went into effect, I began an exploratory research project with  then graduate student researcher (now Stanford Ph.D graduate) Andreas Katsanevas and a team of fantastic undergraduates: Claudia Bobadilla, Nivedha Kelley Soundappan, Emilia Porubcin (all from Stanford), and Morgan Livingston (U.C. Berkeley). Read more about Dark Patterns and the CCPA
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Europe Panel Highlights Regional Best-Practices and Emphasizes Strategic Digital Transformation

On Wednesday, Portulans Institute, in cooperation with UNESCO and ICANN, hosted a regional panel on Europe’s digital transformation, highlighting regional data from the 2020 Network Readiness Index (read our summary here).