University of Bath - Academics join global call on Meta for more rigorous study of social media impact on children

Title: 

Academics join global call on Meta for more rigorous study of social media impact on children

 

Published:

University of Bath, Press Release, 6 December 2021

https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/academics-join-global-call-on-meta-for-more-rigorous-study-of-social-media-impact-on-children/

 

From the press release:

Two University of Bath School of Management experts have joined a coalition of leading academics from across the world to call on Meta/Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to support researchers who want to better understand how Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp impact children’s well-being.

 

Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces: To build the metaverse, Facebook needs us to get used to smart glasses [MIT Technology Review, 2021]

Title:

Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces

 

Author:

S.A. Applin

 

Published:

MIT Technology Review, 15 September 2021

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/15/1035785/why-facebook-ray-ban-stories-metaverse/

 

From the article:

Last week Facebook released its new $299 “Ray-Ban Stories” glasses. Wearers can use them to record and share images and short videos, listen to music, and take calls. The people who buy these glasses will soon be out in public and private spaces, photographing and recording the rest of us, and using Facebook’s new “View” app to sort and upload that content.  

 

My issue with these glasses is partially what they are, but mostly what they will become, and how that will change our social landscape.

 

Tel Aviv University, Israel (May 2021) - Facebook And WhatsApp Are Changing The Sexual Abuse Attitude In Israel's Hasidic Community

Title:

Facebook And WhatsApp Are Changing The Sexual Abuse attitude In Israel's Hasidic Community

 

Published:

Tel Aviv University, Israel, 18 May 2021

https://english.tau.ac.il/news/whatsapp_and_fb_changing_haredi_attitude_on_sexual_abuse

From the article:

New study at Tel Aviv University reveals deep processes occurring in this sector over the past few years.

Facebook AI Launches DEtection TRansformer (DETR) – A Transformer based Object Detection Approach! [Analytics Vidhya, 27 May 2020]

Title:
Facebook AI Launches DEtection TRansformer (DETR) – A Transformer based Object Detection Approach!

Author:
Prateek Joshi

Published:
Analytics Vidhya, 27 May 2020
https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/05/facebook-detection-transformer-detr-a-transformer-based-object-detection-approach/

From the article:
"Every once in a while, a machine learning framework or library changes the landscape of the field. Today, Facebook open sourced one such framework – DETR, or DEtection TRansformer."

Take Note (BBC News, 21 May 2020) - Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Title:
Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR

Published:
BBC News, 21 May 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52758787

From the article:
"A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents' permission, a court in the Netherlands has ruled."

MIT Technology Review, 12 May 2020 - Facebook’s AI is still largely baffled by covid misinformation

Title:
Facebook’s AI is still largely baffled by covid misinformation

Published:
MIT Technology Review, 12 May 2020
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/12/1001633/ai-is-still-largely-baffled-by-covid-misinformation/

From the article:
"In its latest Community Standards Enforcement Report, released today, Facebook detailed the updates it has made to its AI systems for detecting hate speech and disinformation. The tech giant says 88.8% of all the hate speech it removed this quarter was detected by AI, up from 80.2% in the previous quarter. The AI can remove content automatically if the system has high confidence that it is hate speech, but most is still checked by a human being  first."

BBC News, 13 May 2020 - Facebook to pay $52m to content moderators over PTSD

Title:
Facebook to pay $52m to content moderators over PTSD

Published:
BBC News, 13 May 2020

From the article:
* "Facebook has agreed to pay $52m (£42m) to content moderators as compensation for mental health issues developed on the job."
* "The moderators alleged that reviewing violent and graphic images - sometimes of rape and suicide - for the social network had led to them developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)."

To read this article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52642633

Scholarly Article (2020) - Highlighting E‑learning Adoption Challenges using data Analysis Techniques: University of Kufa as a Case Study

Title:
Highlighting E‑learning Adoption Challenges using data Analysis Techniques: University of Kufa as a Case Study

Authors:
Ammar J.M. Karkar, Hayder K. Fatlawi & Ahmed A. Al-Jobouri

Published:
E-Journal of e-Learning (EJEL), volume 18, issue 2, February 2020
Available: file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/ejel-volume18-issue2-article700.pdf

From the abstract:
"Electronic learning (e-learning) plays a significant role in improving the efficiency of the education process. However, in many cases in developing countries, technology transfer without consideration of technology acceptance factors has limited the impact of e-learning and the expected outcome of the education process. Therefore, this shift in learning method has been met with low enthusiasm from academic staff and students owing to its low perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use. The University of Kufa (UoK) in Iraq is considered a good case study because it has implemented the e-learning platform since 2013. The UoK platform is based on open-source Moodle owing to the latter’s advantages, such as low implementation cost, open community for support and continuous update and development. To identify and evaluate the challenges, this study uses a questionnaire survey that targets the level of adoption, implementation, familiarity and technology acceptance of staff and students."