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Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...Data & Society, asks if American society has become too distrustful of experts...[Self-destructive computer] Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during [the US Presidential] election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Others are clamoring for solutions that focus on...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...Data Exchange System (known to linguists and developmental psychologists as “CHILDES”). An amazing feat of language research, CHILDES is the biggest repository of English language data in the world and includes recordings of language produced by children and their caregivers in conversation. Its audio examples of children’s speech are widely used for research...
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Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer
Society, Politics & Law

Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer

...data collection on these crimes, investing £5 million into a “Safety of Women at Night” fund and £27 million to recruit more advisers to support victims. One announcement in the strategy is the pilot of an online tool called “StreetSafe”, which invites users to log locations on a map if they’ve felt unsafe in that area. The government also places a focus on...
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What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?
Money & Business

What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?

...data that would be impossible in the field – no actual homeowner would want nearly 300 sensors attached to their house. And what did we find? We added living room thermostats and thermostatic radiator valves and established energy savings of over 40% when compared to a property with no controls. We identified that curtains reduce heat transfer through the windows by...
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...Data collected according to measures of performance are used to modify the interactions within the system. Mess A mess is a set of conditions that produces dissatisfaction. It can be conceptualized as a system of problems or opportunities; a problem or an opportunity is an ultimate element abstracted from a mess. Monitoring and control Data collected and decisions taken...
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...data highlight that 25-30% of businesses had less than good ability to address trust issues stemming from COVID-19 impacts in their organisation. We consider this number to be even higher due to trust being often misunderstood, and survey respondents’ tendency to overrate their businesses performance. Given the impact on entire sectors of industry and rounds of layoffs,...
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Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...data required to achieve this are becoming more accurate and more accessible than ever before. End of life Before we even think about purchasing, there is another aspect we must consider – what do we do with our technologies once we have finished using them? Discarded electronics products, known as eWaste, present their own environmental challenges. Finite resources A...
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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...data collection of twenty-five participants and this project is a pilot to explore issues which are important to children and young people in a view to turn this into a larger project. The lives of Black children and young people are often underrepresented so this is why it is particularly important that their views were captured in terms of how they’ve been feeling and...
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