- theconversation.com Four struggles men face during the transition to fatherhood
There is often a lack of support and information to help fathers during this transition.
- journals.plos.org Understanding political communication and political communicators on Twitch
As new technologies rapidly reshape patterns of political communication, platforms like Twitch are transforming how people consume political information. This entertainment-oriented live streaming platform allows us to observe the impact of technologies such as ālive-streamingā and āstreaming-chatā ...
Abstract
As new technologies rapidly reshape patterns of political communication, platforms like Twitch are transforming how people consume political information. This entertainment-oriented live streaming platform allows us to observe the impact of technologies such as ālive-streamingā and āstreaming-chatā on political communication. Despite its entertainment focus, Twitch hosts a variety of political actors, including politicians and pundits. This study explores Twitch politics by addressing three main questions: 1) Who are the political Twitch streamers? 2) What content is covered in political streams? 3) How do audiences of political streams interact with each other? To identify political streamers, I leveraged the Twitch API and supervised machine-learning techniques, identifying 574 political streamers. I used topic modeling to analyze the content of political streams, revealing seven broad categories of political topics and a unique pattern of communication involving context-specific āemotes.ā Additionally, I created user-reference networks to examine interaction patterns, finding that a small number of users dominate the communication network. This research contributes to our understanding of how new social media technologies influence political communication, particularly among younger audiences.
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Leading healthy, sustainable lives is all fun and games
360info.org Leading healthy, sustainable lives is all fun and games - 360By using an engaging format and features such as a scoreboard and rewards, games can help raise awareness of an issue or disease. Gaming has grown up. Players are learning about climate change, hurricane safety, type 1 diabetes and infection control practices during a pandemic. And they are having f...
- prismreports.org Anti-fatness as anti-blackness: Violence at home, violence abroad
Anti-fatness is anti-blackness. In this way, fatness, as with blackness, is always and already criminalized, penalized, objectified, and marginalized
- theconversation.com The unspoken rule of conversation that explains why AI chatbots feel so human
When we interact with a chatbot, deeply ingrained habits make us behave as if itās a person.
- revealnews.org Police didnāt believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
āIf I didnāt find the evidence for them, I wasnāt too sure they would find it.ā
Title: The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle
- prismreports.org Zionism has no place in our reproductive health movements
For Jews working in the repro movement, dedication to anti-Zionism is informed by the values that inform our commitment to reproductive justice
- cepr.net The Mainstream Mediaās Big Lie Never Stops
Unveiling the truth behind media's big lie about income inequality and the free market. Explore how government interventions have shaped working class support for authoritarianism.
- theconversation.com US decision to supply Kyiv with hated anti-personnel mines is both controversial and a depressing sign of the way the war is going
MInes are almost universally reviled as they continue to kill in many parts of the world long after conflicts have ceased. So why is the US sending them to Ukraine?
- theconversation.com Fast fashion may seem cheap, but itās taking a costly toll on the planet ā and on millions of young customers
The industry has a reputation for pollution and waste, but it has psychological effects as well.
- theconversation.com Why people would rather clean the toilet than check their bank balance ā and the spending problems this leads to
Avoiding bad financial news is a common human trait ā but it can have serious consequences for money management.
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As online lending grows, so too does cybercrime
360info.org As online lending grows, so too does cybercrime - 360The global economy has struggled post-COVID, leading to job losses and hardship. Driven by need, many have turned to costly illegal loans. Online lending, or āpinjol,ā has grown quickly since COVID-19, as people under financial strain seek new ways to deal with their hardship. Its accessibility, qui...
> The global economy has struggled post-COVID, leading to job losses and hardship. Driven by need, many have turned to costly illegal loans.
- knowablemagazine.org Cracking the recipe for perfect plant-based eggs
Hint: It involves finding just the right proteins. With new ingredients and processes, the next generation of substitutes will be not just more egg-like, but potentially more nutritious.
> Hint: It involves finding just the right proteins. With new ingredients and processes, the next generation of substitutes will be not just more egg-like, but potentially more nutritious.
- theconversation.com Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media ā hereās the evidence
Hereās why I disagree with Jonathan Haidt. Young people have been on a trajectory of worse mental health since before the advent of social media.
- theconversation.com Men abused by women donāt all fight back. Some believe a strong man is non-violent ā South African study
Interviews with 25 men from seven African countries revealed that some abused men choose to control their reactions, associating real manliness with non-violence.
- knowablemagazine.org The secrets of butterfly migration, written in pollen
Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys.
- theconversation.com Why school police officers may not be the most effective way to prevent violence
The presence of police in schools has grown in the past 30 years. But research shows that these officers may not be the most effective method for deterring violence.
