More Than Robots #67 July 2023
No one belongs here more than you - Miranda July
Some say that life is a journey with one destination, if so then here are some sights and signposts for the ramble.
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Financial Sextortion
Nearly two-thirds of teens and young adults, in six countries, said they or their friends have been targeted in online āsextortionā schemes
Future Technology and Media Literacy: The metaverse
If the metaverse provides the same kind of societal change that the advent of the internet did, how do we minimise the risk that some users are left behind? See also Children likely to spend 10 years of their lives in VR
Addressing the distribution of illicit sexual content by minors online
Large networks of accounts that appear to be operated by minors are openly advertising self-generated child sexual abuse material (SG-CSAM) for sale.
Exploring the Darkverse: A Multi-Perspective Analysis of the Negative Societal Impacts of the Metaverse
Diminishing reality may prove to be one of the most pressing challenges associated with the emerging metaverse.
Childrenās perspectives on 'Self-generated' sexual material online
Children, especially girls, expressed that the content and architecture of social media environments drives and facilitates the creation and sharing of āself-generatedā sexual material
Digital Inclusion in Libraries in England
āEvery session isnāt just about digital inclusion,itās about their whole inclusion in life.ā
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Voice Box
The international content platform by young people for young people
FLARE blogs
Blogs posts written by disabled children on issues that matter to them.
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Machine Unlearning: Its nature, scope, and importance for a ādelete cultureā
Our newborn deletion culture concerns what information can, and if so, ought to be made unavailable in principle
A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it
Many of the original concepts for search emerged from library scientists focused on the accessibility of documents in time and space
How the Vape Shops Won
When a type of product has yet to be standardized through commoditization, lots of suppliers can make many different things and thrive simultaneously
ā¦and finally
Never mind the machine learning - hereās the adversarial attack