Debates Públicos contemporáneos sobre sexualidades y género; Ciudad Feminista; Masculinidades y Feminismos; Diversidades sexuales y de género, entre otros, son parte de la oferta académica de formación general relacionada con género, a las cuales puede inscribirse cualquier estudiante de pregrado. Otros cursos, en tanto, enfocarán el género desde distintas miradas y disciplinas, como la Cátedra de Racismos y Migraciones Contemporáneas. Al igual que todos los programas, éstos se desarrollarán de manera remota.

Ya confirmados los primeros casos de este virus respiratorio en nuestro país, surgen algunas inquietudes con respecto a su transmisión y cuidado de los animales. "Aunque el virus esté relacionado con animales, no significa que nuestras mascotas puedan transmitirlos.

Later today, the 107th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will begin its working group sessions in an unconventional way. Previously, over 1,000 engineers were expected to be in Vancouver, Canada, to engage in the IETF’s work creating the open standards that make the Internet possible.

David O’Brien argues that the American government will have to walk a fine line if it wants to get useful information while still preserving citizens’ privacy rights.

“It is possible to do this and to provide some privacy,” O’Brien says. “But I think that the trade-off has always been you want to very carefully match any types of privacy measures you put in place against what is it that you ultimately want to learn from the data.”

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Governments are increasingly using digital technologies and big data analytics to address the Covid-19 pandemic. At this stage of the pandemic, these technologies may not deliver their promise and will further entrench surveillance in our societies and erode the rule of law. BKC fellow Beatriz Botero Arcila argues that it doesn’t need to be that way.

Searches in the Lumen database reveal the complexities around the rules that platforms follow when they agree to the removal of content.

Adam Holland weighed in: “...a journalistic organization taking some video clips from a politician’s TV interview and placing them in dialogue with statements from others in a longer framing video, has all the hallmarks of a straightforward fair use — although again, every case is unique and fact specific.” 

evelyn douek speaks with Kate Starbird, an expert in crisis informatics, or the study of how information flows during crisis events. 

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Misleading text messages claiming that President Trump was going to announce a national quarantine buzzed into cellphones across the country over the weekend, underscoring how rapidly false claims are spreading — and how often it is happening beyond the familiar misinformation vehicles of Facebook and Twitter.

“As social media companies focus on keywords like ‘covid’ and ‘coronavirus,’ there are pockets of conspiracy theories that are welling up that potentially have some offline impact,” said Joan Donovan.

Elizabeth Renieris argues it’s not just the government that is having to navigate these complex questions. 

“This is not a time for employers to opportunistically collect additional information about their employees or to introduce employee surveillance measures,” says Renieris. “Employees do not surrender all of their privacy rights in a crisis.”

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With millions on lockdown, Facebook and Twitter are major sources of Covid-19 news. They’re also where misinformation thrives. How can platforms step up?

To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.

“Research shows that during disasters, people can show strikingly altruistic behavior, but interventions by authorities can backfire if they fuel mistrust or treat the public as an adversary rather than people who will step up if treated with respect,” writes Zeynep Tufekci. “Given that even homemade masks may work better than no masks, wearing them might be something to direct people to do while they stay at home more, as we all should.”

Despite heart-wrenching images in the media of people standing together and political calls for solidarity, the pandemic has laid bare the problems with globalisation and challenged our model of economic growth, writes Padmashree Gehl Sampath.

“To stand in solidarity and to brave the headwinds of a world, where pandemics, system failures and massive shocks (climatic, financial and social) will become the new norm, we need to establish some new rules of the game.”

Read more from Medium

BKC's managing director weighs in on the challenges that school districts face:

“Public districts are required to provide the same education opportunities for all children,” Sylvan said. “So if you have a digital divide, that could be a challenge. You have to make sure every kid in the school could access those tools.”

Read more in the Beaumont Enterprise

Vorlesungszeiten Einvernehmlich hat man sich für die Verschiebung des Beginns der Vorlesungszeiten für das kommende Sommersemester auf den 20. April ausgesprochen. Die Entscheidung fiel mit Blick auf Schutzmaßnahmen zur Eindämmung der weiteren Verbreitung des Virus SARS-CoV-2.

Vorlesungszeiten Einvernehmlich hat man sich für die Verschiebung des Beginns der Vorlesungszeiten für das kommende Sommersemester auf den 20. April ausgesprochen. Die Entscheidung fiel mit Blick auf Schutzmaßnahmen zur Eindämmung der weiteren Verbreitung des Virus SARS-CoV-2.

Connecting
online: Many libraries and authors are offering online reading
sessions during recommended social distancing due to the spreading coronavirus,
says
Timeout.com. The article offers a list of online reading activities.

En un trabajo conjunto entre la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones y Editorial Universitaria, el libro "Elena Caffarena. Una mujer pública", recorre los planteamientos e ideas políticas de una de las pioneras de la lucha por los derechos de las mujeres, revisado en sus propios textos, en archivos y en el análisis de autoras que recorren diferentes dimensiones del legado de la abogada de la Universidad de Chile. “Elena Caffarena.

(Actualización a las 15:45 hrs. del viernes 13 de marzo de 2020)A la comunidad universitaria: