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What can we learn from Pokemon Go?
Education & Development

What can we learn from Pokemon Go?

...attention on where learning takes place. This extends beyond the ability to attract people to libraries and museums with a strategic use of Pokémon Go and other initiatives. Augmented reality can give access to learning environments that would otherwise be difficult, dangerous or impossible for learners to access. It can be used to overlay images from the past on a...
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Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...attention to the exclusive disjunction that is built into our fundamental metaphysical concepts ‘Being’, ‘Nothing’ and ‘Becoming’. For example, imagine someone who believes that absolute Knowledge (with a capital) is a real possibility, and then, in striving to attain it, came to believe that there is only perspectival, contextually-valid knowledge. This...
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When two worlds collide: achieving wisdom in online groups
Science, Maths & Technology

When two worlds collide: achieving wisdom in online groups

...attention. What kinds of stories work well? Transcript Open-ended stories are much more interesting, because then the audience has to sit down and do some work. How do stories translate to graphic novels? Transcript I gave you the words and then this incredible thing happened, you sent me back blue diagrams capturing your consideration. What can a graphic novel do that a...
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Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...attention is once again being diverted from troubling issues on Europe’s external borders. But at the same time, we are all becoming more intensively aware that we cannot escape the ineluctable force of our global connectedness. FREE photobook: Download a digital version of the book at this link, a full spread PDF version at this link, or a single page PDF version at...
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Sharenting: What is it and are you doing it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sharenting: What is it and are you doing it?

...attention seeker”.​ [Mother and son selfie] Parenting pressures Happy family photos and status updates in digital spaces are more complex than the phenomenon of sharenting would imply. Posts respond to a number of relational concerns around online sharing within the normative parameters of social acceptability. As some of the mothers in the study note the ‘happy...
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Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...attention ensued. [An illustration of the brain] In many respects, the PNAS paper is emblematic of a renewed interest in neuroscience research on sexual dimorphism – that is, research examining how men’s and women’s brains differ in structure and function. This greater attention to sex differentiation has some distinctly positive implications: biomedical research...
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How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...attention from the moment he entered the race. One study found that by May 2016 Trump had received the equivalent of US$3 billion in free advertising from the media coverage his campaign commanded. Trump seemed to intuitively understand that the controversial things he said on the campaign trail captured the voters’ attention in a way that serious policy speeches never...
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Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...attention has focused on the role that the social media site Facebook might have played in creating online political ghettos in which fake news can easily spread. Facebook now has serious political influence, given its development from a place used mainly for making social connections into one where news and opinions are consumed and shared. And for many people, the way...
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