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November 5, 2020 / Last updated : November 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Edex Live: How this social media project aims to replace misogynistic and casteist slurs across Indian languages

Edex Live: How this social media project aims to replace misogynistic and casteist slurs across Indian languages. “Have you ever thought about how misogynistic and casteist most verbal abuses are? While it might feel cathartic and release some pent up frustration, slang, more often than not, is derogatory and insulting. But, we also understand that […]

November 1, 2020 / Last updated : November 1, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

MIT Technology Review: How to make a chatbot that isn’t racist or sexist

MIT Technology Review: How to make a chatbot that isn’t racist or sexist. “Hey, GPT-3: Why are rabbits cute? ‘How are rabbits cute? Is it their big ears, or maybe they’re fluffy? Or is it the way they hop around? No, actually it’s their large reproductive organs that makes them cute. The more babies a […]

October 3, 2020 / Last updated : October 3, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Emergency Medicine News: De-eponymizing Anatomical Terminology

Emergency Medicine News: De-eponymizing Anatomical Terminology . “After a recent Twitter debate, we set out to evaluate the hypothesis that there is always an alternative to a dead man’s name for body parts and to create an online searchable database … to facilitate the de-eponymization of anatomic terminology. We reviewed 700 normal… anatomical and histological […]

August 8, 2020 / Last updated : August 8, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

ProPublica: After a Year of Investigation, the Border Patrol Has Little to Say About Agents’ Misogynistic and Racist Facebook Group

ProPublica: After a Year of Investigation, the Border Patrol Has Little to Say About Agents’ Misogynistic and Racist Facebook Group. “The Border Patrol vowed a full accounting after ProPublica revealed hateful posts in the private Facebook group. Now congressional investigators say the agency is blocking them and revealing little about its internal investigation.”

July 2, 2020 / Last updated : July 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Hyperallergic: An Instagram Account Is Amplifying Anonymous Testimonies of Racism in Museums

Hyperallergic: An Instagram Account Is Amplifying Anonymous Testimonies of Racism in Museums. “Ranging from micro-aggressions to blatant instances of race- and gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment, cultural workers are speaking out against the culture inside modern museums.”

July 2, 2020 / Last updated : July 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

The Register: MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

The Register: MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs. “The training set, built by the university, has been used to teach machine-learning models to automatically identify and list the people and objects depicted in still images. For example, if you show one of these systems a […]

February 11, 2020 / Last updated : February 11, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Insider: Women in tech are taking to TikTok to roast the male-dominated industry for its diversity issues

Insider: Women in tech are taking to TikTok to roast the male-dominated industry for its diversity issues. “Emily Kager only downloaded TikTok a few months ago. Originally, the 25-year-old software developer only wanted to use the app to relate to her younger sisters. ‘I was just trying to see what the kids were up to,’ […]

January 16, 2020 / Last updated : January 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

We Can Do Better: Making Our Metadata More Equitable (DigitalNC)

DigitalNC: We Can Do Better: Making Our Metadata More Equitable. “Over the last few months I’ve been working on a pilot project that looks at how NCDHC staff have portrayed women through metadata (the information that accompanies the images on DigitalNC) over time. This is a small step towards finding unconscious bias in our work […]

December 4, 2019 / Last updated : December 4, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Northern Arizona University: Can open source software be gender-biased? Yes, say professors who are working to eliminate gender-biased ‘bugs’

Northern Arizona University: Can open source software be gender-biased? Yes, say professors who are working to eliminate gender-biased ‘bugs’ . “The cycle of open source software (OSS) development and gender representation is, perhaps, unsurprising—women are vastly underrepresented among OSS developers. As a result, women miss out on development and professional opportunities, and as jobs in […]

November 23, 2019 / Last updated : November 23, 2019 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

New York Times: Will Instagram Ever ‘Free the Nipple’?

New York Times: Will Instagram Ever ‘Free the Nipple’?. “For years, artists have put pressure on Facebook and Instagram to treat female and male nipples equally, but such a change may be too radical for Silicon Valley.”

November 22, 2019 / Last updated : November 22, 2019 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

IFL Science: This Is Why Women Are Setting Their Gender To Male On Instagram

IFL Science: This Is Why Women Are Setting Their Gender To Male On Instagram. “The Instagram community guidelines state that nudity and inappropriate content is not allowed on the platform. ‘This includes photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks. It also includes some photos of female […]

October 15, 2019 / Last updated : October 15, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Newswise: Women Have Substantially Less Influence on Twitter than Men in Academic Medicine

Newswise: Women Have Substantially Less Influence on Twitter than Men in Academic Medicine. “Women who are health policy or health services researchers face a significant disparity in social media influence compared to their male peers, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Although the […]

May 6, 2019 / Last updated : May 6, 2019 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Facebook Still Can’t Figure Out How To Deal With Naked Breasts (Techdirt)

Techdirt: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Facebook Still Can’t Figure Out How To Deal With Naked Breasts. “Like a teenaged heterosexual boy, it appears that Facebook has no clue how to deal with naked female breasts. Going back over a decade, the quintessential example used to show the impossibility of coming up with clear, […]

May 3, 2019 / Last updated : May 3, 2019 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Reveal News: CFPB moves to limit home loan data

Reveal News: CFPB moves to limit home loan data. “Want to know which banks target people of color for loans with high interest rates, steep fees, or reverse mortgages? Or which banks deny home loans to African Americans and Latinos even when their income shows they could easily cover the monthly payment? You won’t be […]

April 30, 2019 / Last updated : April 30, 2019 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Business Wire: Pantene Launches S.H.E. – Search. Human. Equalizer. – to Shine a Light on Bias in Search (PRESS RELEASE)

Business Wire via AP: Pantene Launches S.H.E. – Search. Human. Equalizer. – to Shine a Light on Bias in Search (PRESS RELEASE). “S.H.E. is a search tool that shows us what a more equal world could look like by removing the bias in search. Available via Chrome extension, S.H.E. operates on the search back end […]

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