Charo Sádaba, nueva decana de la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad
“Estamos ante un momento único para la Comunicación, clave para ayudar en la transformación de la sociedad, con quien esta Facultad está comprometida”
FOTO: Manuel Castells
19/06/17 11:59
Álvaro Pérez
¿Qué hace un hombre al encontrar un automóvil abandonado en una carretera en plena noche? ¿Lo toma? ¿Lo abandona? ¿Llama a la policía?
En el día Mundial del Medio Ambiente, la académica del Departamento de Geofísica, explica en esta entrevista con Prensa Uchile las repercusiones de estos hechos y el liderazgo que pueden ejercer Europa y China ante este escenario tras el anuncio del líder norteamericano.
Event: Measuring Fake News in Germany
Time: June 27, 2017 from 18.00 – 20.00
Guest: Alexander Sängerlaub, Leader of the project Measuring Fake News at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)
Moderator: Joanna Bronowicka, Director at the CIHR, European University Viadrina
Social media and digital technologies created a new media ecosystem that has become a challenge for democracy and its institutions – especially during elections. The fake news debate is symptomatic of this change.
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Author of the Book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” by jomny sun (the aliebn)
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Join Jonny Sun, the author of the popular Twitter account @jonnysun, for a conversation in celebration of his new book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” by jomny sun (the aliebn).
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28
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Paper by Solon Barocas, Elizabeth Bradley, Vasant Honavar, and Foster Provost: “Advances in data analytics bring with them civil rights implications. Data-driven and algorithmic decision making increasingly determine how businesses target advertisements to consumers, how police departments monitor individuals or groups, how banks decide who gets a loan and who does not, how employers hire, how colleges and universities make admissions and financial aid decisions, and much more.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on cross-border data requests, featuring testimony from the Department of Justice, the U.K. government, Google, the Center for Democracy and Technology, state law enforcement, and Professor Andrew Woods. Everyone recognizes the problem: law enforcement outside the U.S. can’t get data for their legitimate investigations from U.S.
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United States
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The Pirate Bay (TPB), that perennial nemesis of copyright holders, is on the ropes again following the CJEU's decision this week in BREIN v. Ziggo. BREIN, the Dutch entertainment industry trade group, sued two ISPs—Ziggo and XS4ALL—seeking a court order to compel them to block the domain names and IP addresses of the legendary torrent sharing site.
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan at The Conversation: “Forecasting political unrest is a challenging task, especially in this era of post-truth and opinion polls.
Michael Sanders, Miranda Jackman and Martin Sweeney at Behavioural Insights Team: “Work in fraud, error, and debt, and especially tax compliance and collection, has always been a core part of what the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) does.
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Featuring GAiA Co-Founder Quentin Palfrey
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Global Access in Action: Conversations in Global Health, Innovation, & the Digital World
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26
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Supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the DeepGreen project aims to transfer academic publications which can be made freely accessible into open access. This process will be automated using... MORE
La mandataria recalcó que son los planteles estatales los "llamados a asegurar no solo la libertad de cátedra y de investigación, sino también dar cabida a la diversidad, a la transparencia, a la participación, porque el mandato que ellas tienen es que nadie quede excluido". Desde Estados Unidos, donde se encuentra en un viaje académico, el Rector de la U. de Chile y presidente del Cuech, Ennio Vivaldi, manifestó que "esta acción representa un primer paso, insoslayable, hacia una nueva actitud del Estado al volver a asumir su responsabilidad y compromiso con la Educación Superior".
Un equipo conformado por ingenieros, médicos, lingüistas y sociólogos de nuestro plantel, creó una innovadora plataforma que permite, a bajo costo, medir el fenómeno del consumo de droga en la población chilena.