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Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...analysis. It says any host that “organizes” videos posted by users loses important parts of its eCommerce immunities. Therefore, these platforms can be held responsible for finding and removing content. This interpretation would effectively change the rules for Internet users and intermediaries without formally reopening the eCommerce Directive. If it is right, courts...
From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...Data from the Census in 2011 in England and Wales might assist in understanding some of these onward migrations; nevertheless, it is still quite difficult to provide an estimate of more recent migrations (i.e. post-2011) or migrations of BME ‘New Europeans’ in the UK. Previous research found that BME Europeans, especially where they were highly educated and skilled,...
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...analysis of how race structures the contemporary surveillance of Black bodies, Simone Browne states ‘Surveillance is nothing new to black folks. It is the fact of anti-blackness’ (2015, p.10). In her work Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Browne states that ‘If we are to take transatlantic slavery as antecedent to contemporary surveillance technologies...
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...analysis (contrary to neoclassical economics which focuses on individual consumers and firms) and is critical of how national income is generated in capitalist societies more generally. Marx’s (1867) Labour Theory of Value provides us with an interesting and useful explanation for the entrenched economic and social inequalities that we discussed earlier. While a...
Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
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Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...data is from a small cohort of patients with COVID-19 and, although suggestive, it needs to be carefully interpreted and validated by other independent studies. How does radiotherapy treatment affecting the immune system in relation to COVID-19? Radiotherapy is the treatment where radiation is used to kill cancer cells and/or shrink the tumour. There are different types...
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...analysis and fracture mechanics and apply that to safety-critical components in the nuclear industry. I wasn't quite sure how my career and promotion prospects would develop – they employed a high calibre of people, so there was a strong professional ethos there, which I appreciated and enjoyed. Around the middle of the 1990s I had the opportunity to undertake one...
An introduction to interaction design
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An introduction to interaction design

...Data was stored on magnetic ‘floppy disks’, and any operations carried out on the data would be slow by today’s standards. With these characteristics, these computers could only be used comfortably by one person at a time. All this meant that the experience of the user was relatively simple and straightforward, as well as constrained. 40 years later, computers...
Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
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Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...of national authorities, insisting on better research in state projects, and better data in state development plans. The network and its news can also be followed at RedLBC‘s Twitter account and the hashtag #CienciaLatina. This article was translated for Global Voices Online by Hazina Cain-Houston, and originally published on Global Voices Online under a CC-BY licence...