By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: The BBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Prince Philip has become the most complained-about moment in British television history. It has elicited one of the most negative reactions to BBC programmes ever seen. The 110,000 complaints received dwarfed the previous record of 63,000 when the BBC was embroiled in a […] The post Coverage of Prince Philip garners most complaints in BBC history, but… appeared first on TruePublica. Source: Read More: Coverage of Prince Philip garners most complaints in BBC history, but…
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South Asian governments must ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines
Governments in South Asia must ensure that vulnerable groups are not excluded from access to COVID-19 vaccines, said Amnesty International, while calling on the international community to enable the production of vaccines at the national-level to address the severe shortfall in supply across the region. As vaccination programmes have commenced across South Asia, groups including slum dwellers, Dalits, ethnic minorities, workers including labourers, daily wage earners, sanitation workers, garment workers and tea plantation workers, people in rural areas, prisoners, and internally displaced people have so far been denied access due to a lack of awareness and limited access to technology in most…
The totality of UK-Irish relations is at risk because of Brexit
The European Union was a crucial element of the totality of UK-Irish relationships that would allow for the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, Darren Litter (Queen’s University Belfast). The UK and Ireland’s historic achievement of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) is most synonymous with the inter-prime ministerial partnership of Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern. More than any of their predecessors, Blair and Ahern got on together, shared a common understanding of the ‘Northern Ireland problem’, and were determined to approach this issue in the fully intergovernmental spirit envisaged originally by the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA). However – while indispensable to…
More Than a Feeling—Interrelation of Trust Layers in Human-Robot Interaction and the Role of User Dispositions and State Anxiety
With service robots becoming more ubiquitous in social life, interaction design needs to adapt to novice users and the associated uncertainty in the first encounter with this technology in new emerging environments. Trust in robots is an essential psychological prerequisite to achieve safe and convenient cooperation between users and robots. This research focuses on psychological processes in which user dispositions and states affect trust in robots, which in turn is expected to impact the behavior and reactions in the interaction with robotic systems. In a laboratory experiment, the influence of propensity to trust in automation and negative attitudes toward robots…
Autistic Self-Advocacy and the Neurodiversity Movement: Implications for Autism Early Intervention Research and Practice
The growth of autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement has brought about new ethical, theoretical and ideological debates within autism theory, research and practice. These debates have had genuine impact within some areas of autism research but their influence is less evident within early intervention research. In this paper, we argue that all autism intervention stakeholders need to understand and actively engage with the views of autistic people and with neurodiversity as a concept and movement. In so doing, intervention researchers and practitioners are required to move away from a normative agenda and pay diligence to environmental goodness-of-fit, autistic developmental…
Help sixth-formers make up lost learning, say UK college leaders
Students who have fallen behind during pandemic should get six months to a year to repeat studies, Association of Colleges recommends Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Sixth-form students should be allowed to repeat part of the year to make up for lost learning, college leaders have said, as research showed three-quarters had fallen between one and four months behind during the coronavirus pandemic. The Association of Colleges (AoC) warned that students aged 16 to 18 needed extra support to help them cope with the pandemic’s toll on their mental health. They said colleges were receiving increased…
Why EFF Supports Repeal of Qualified Immunity
Our digital rights are only as strong as our power to enforce them. But when we sue government officials for violating our digital rights, they often get away with it because of a dangerous legal doctrine called “qualified immunity.” Do you think you have a First Amendment right to use your cell phone to record on-duty police officers, or to use your social media account to criticize politicians? Do you think you have a Fourth Amendment right to privacy in the content of your personal emails? Courts often protect these rights. But some judges invoke qualified immunity to avoid affirmatively…
Eruption at La Soufrière
Explosive activity has propelled ash and gas high into the air over the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and Barbados. Read More… Source: Read More: Eruption at La Soufrière
After Cookies, Ad Tech Wants to Use Your Email to Track You Everywhere
Cookies are dying, and the tracking industry is scrambling to replace them. Google has proposed Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), TURTLEDOVE, and other bird-themed tech that would have browsers do some of the behavioral profiling that third-party trackers do today. But a coalition of independent surveillance advertisers has a different plan. Instead of stuffing more tracking tech into the browser (which they don’t control), they’d like to use more stable identifiers, like email addresses, to identify and track users across their devices. There are several proposals from ad tech providers to preserve “addressable media” (read: individualized surveillance advertising) after cookies…
Seroja Slams Australia
The category three cyclone made a rare landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns. Read More… Source: Read More: Seroja Slams Australia
Will summer slow the spread of COVID-19? New research sheds light
MaxyM/Shutterstock At face value, it seems highly plausible that SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – could behave seasonally, being more prevalent in winter and less so in summer. The four other coronaviruses that commonly circulate in humans behave in this way. We’ve also seen COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths spike over winter in the UK and other countries, which is suggestive of a seasonal effect. Some association between viral transmission and the seasons is to be expected. Many human behaviours are seasonal. In summer, we spend more time outdoors, where risk of infection is much lower, and we…
Will summer slow the spread of COVID-19? New research sheds light
Will summer slow the spread of COVID-19? New research sheds light MaxyM/Shutterstock At face value, it seems highly plausible that SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – could behave seasonally, being more prevalent in winter and less so in summer. The four other coronaviruses that commonly circulate in humans behave in this way. We’ve also seen COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths spike over winter in the UK and other countries, which is suggestive of a seasonal effect. Some association between viral transmission and the seasons is to be expected. Many human behaviours are seasonal. In summer, we spend more…