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Before you
listen to the
news or
read the news,
you should first learn how to understand what
information
is and
what it isn't. There are numerous
vague portrayals of
information in the media, so being
aware of the
important facts is not easy. Even using the
internet is not without risk, because
certain information is not
always protected from
manipulation,
or is information accurately
understood by the average person.
Information Bubble is when a person
passively listens to
only the
information that they
agree with, and they like
this information without
confirming if the
information is actually
true or totally
factual. The
person will also
reject
information just because they don't agree with it or don't like it, and not because
they have
proven that the
information is
false or in
error. The person
is basically
cherry picking data and
censoring information
without
recognizing distinctions
and without getting a
second opinion. And the person
will also seek out
like minded people in the
belief that it confirms their
opinion, which
it doesn't. In order to receive reliable information, you have to know someone
who is confirmed to be
trustworthy,
someone who provides
factual
information and has the
knowledge needed to use that information effectively, and as well as,
they are able to
explain information simply enough to be
understood well enough. You have to know someone who has also done the
research and who has done
the necessary
investigations.
Some people can be extremely lazy and not put the needed effort that is
necessary to learn something
valuable. Some people just find it easier to
pretend they know
something than actually learning about something. This
can create a
knowledge divide that
most people are not even aware of.
This type of
isolation
can be very damaging to peoples thinking. Some people can even
misremember
numerical facts just because those made up numbers fits their personal
biases.
Technology Abuse
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Brainwashing -
Radicalized -
Extremism -
Popping the
Information Bubble (youtube) -
Sorry to Burst
Your Bubble -
Scumbags in
power love to make Bubbles -
Knowledge Bubble -
Information Vacuum -
Conformity Influence
Filter Bubble is when you watch the
same TV programs
or visit the
same websites, which keeps
you from
seeing the
whole picture, and also keeps you from
thinking outside the box, or
thinking outside the bubble you're in. A filter bubble is similar to
witness
tampering, where you only
listen to the
witnesses that
you like,
and you never listen to
the
other side of the story. A filter bubble can also be created when
search engines control what you see using your
personal meta data such
as your location, past websites you visited and your search history. This
causes users to become more
separated from information that disagrees
with their viewpoints,
effectively isolating them in their own cultural or
ideological bubbles.
With most
internet
searches, the choices made by
algorithms
are not
transparent.
They are
filtering
information
just like the TV does,
and it's mostly for corporate benefit and not yours.
Website Algorithms are programmed to
selectively guess what information a user would like to see based on
information about the user, such as location, past click-behavior and
search history. As a result, users become separated from information that
disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own
cultural or ideological bubbles. The choices made by these
algorithms are
not transparent. Prime examples include Google Personalized Search results
and Facebook's personalized news-stream. A Filter Bubble or ideological
frame is a state of
intellectual isolation that can result from
personalized searches, recommendation systems, and
algorithmic curation.
Selective Exposure Theory refers to individuals' tendency to favor
information which reinforces their pre-existing views while avoiding
contradictory information.
Selective exposure has also been known and defined as "
congeniality
bias" or "
confirmation
bias" in various texts throughout the years.
Invalid
Argument -
Prompts
Evaluating the truthfulness of fake news through online searches
increases the chances of believing misinformation. Conventional wisdom
suggests that searching online to evaluate the veracity of misinformation
would reduce belief in it. But a new study by a team of researchers shows
the opposite occurs: Searching to evaluate the truthfulness of false news
articles actually increases the probability of believing misinformation.
Search results are tailored to you. low
return of credible information or, more alarming, the appearance of
non-credible information at the top of search results.
Speech Community is a group of people who
share a set of linguistic
norms and expectations regarding the use of
language. They
interact frequently and share certain norms and
ideologies. Such
groups can be villages, countries, political or professional communities,
communities with shared interests, hobbies, or lifestyles, or even just
groups of friends. Speech communities may share both particular sets of
vocabulary and grammatical conventions, as well as speech styles and
genres, and also norms for how and when to speak in particular ways.
Inoculating millions of users against misinformation using a
social media experiment. Briefly
exposing social media users to the
tricks behind
misinformation boosts
awareness of
harmful
online falsehoods -- even amid intense '
noise'
of the world's second-most visited website. Google is set to deploy an
anti-disinformation campaign based on the findings.
Google Jigsaw exposed around 5.4
million US YouTubers to an
inoculation
video, with almost a million watching for at least 30 seconds. The
platform then gave a random 30% of users that watched a
voluntary test question
within 24 hours of their initial viewing.
Social media algorithms exploit how humans learn from their peers.
Algorithms are usually selecting information that boosts user engagement
in order to increase advertising revenue. This means algorithms amplify
the very information humans are biased to learn from, and they can
oversaturate social media feeds with what the researchers call
Prestigious, Ingroup, Moral, and Emotional
or PRIME information, regardless of the content's accuracy or
representativeness of a group's opinions. As a result, extreme political
content or controversial topics are more likely to be amplified, and if
users are not exposed to outside opinions, they might find themselves with
a false understanding of the majority opinion of different groups. In
prehistoric societies, humans tended to learn from members of our ingroup
or from more prestigious individuals, as this information was more likely
to be reliable and result in group success. However, with the advent of
diverse and complex modern communities -- and especially in social media
-- these biases become less effective. For example, a person we are
connected to online might not necessarily be trustworthy, and people can
easily feign prestige on social media. Now, a group of social scientists
describe how the functions of social media algorithms are misaligned with
human social instincts meant to foster cooperation, which can lead to
large-scale polarization and misinformation. Humans are biased to learn
from others in a way that typically promotes cooperation and collective
problem-solving, which is why they tend to learn more from individuals
they perceive as a part of their ingroup and those they perceive to be
prestigious. In addition, when learning biases were first evolving,
morally and emotionally charged information was important to prioritize,
as this information would be more likely to be relevant to enforcing group
norms and ensuring collective survival.
Black Box.
This is another good
reason why this website is extremely valuable, especially knowing that
you can create your own false information if you never have
access to the facts. But not all search engine results are bad, but
how would you know?
Search engines also collect
information about the
user,
which
can then be
sold to second and third parties
without the persons
consent. And money from
corporations
is also used to
manipulate search
results that you see. So the facts can sometimes be hard to find, but
not impossible. Be aware of the
click bait, and try
not to be a
spoiled brat
and act
privileged.
Echo Chamber is a metaphorical description of a situation in which
information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or
reinforced by
communication and
repetition inside a
defined system,
such as a group or organization where the
members only listen to what the
group says, or
because of
corporate
controlled media that repeats the same propaganda on hundreds of news
outlets that they own and control. This gives people the
illusion of
consensus. So there is no second opinion, no oversight, no
transparency, no accountability, it's just the same scumbag telling people
the same lie over and over again. Inside a figurative
echo chamber,
official sources often go unquestioned and different or
competing views are
censored, disallowed, or otherwise underrepresented. The
echo chamber effect
reinforces a person's own present
world view, making it
seem more correct and
more universally accepted than it really is.
Echo Chamber can also be a metaphor that describes a person who only hears what
they speak, as if they're
hearing their own echo's and
only listening to
themselves, or, hearing other people speak the same words that they
think.
Echolalia (rumors) -
Bias -
Prejudice
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Delusions
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Seeing the Same StarsYou're Staring at the Wall means
that you are not learning anything and basically just watching nothing
informative. The wall keeps you closed in and
closed minded.
That is what most of the media is like. You're probably better off staring
at a real wall.
Priming in the
media
states that media images
stimulate related thoughts in the minds of
audience members.
Political
Media Priming is the process in which the
media
attend to some issues and not others and thereby alter the standards
by which people
evaluate election candidates.
Priming in
psychology is a phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus
influences a response to a
subsequent stimulus, without
conscious guidance
or intention.
Framing in social sciences comprises a
set of concepts and theoretical
perspectives on how individuals, groups, and societies, organize,
perceive, and communicate about reality.
Narrow-Minded.
Influence of Mass Media has an effect on many aspects of human life,
which can include
voting a certain way, individual views and beliefs, or
skewing a person's knowledge of a specific topic due to being provided
false information. The overall
influence of
mass media has increased
drastically over the years, and will continue to do so as the media itself
improves.
Misleading
Subtle Comments are quick messages, but still noticeable, especially
to the sub-conscious mind. Secret encoded messages are everywhere, you
just have to
know how
to listen and
know
when to filter out the bad information.
We want certain information to be personalized and individualized at
times depending on a persons needs, but not so much that the information becomes isolated or
polarized.
Even a
social network can be a type of
filter bubble when your friends all think alike. So your Sphere of
influence may be blinding you.
The worst type of bubble is the
knowledge bubble, where a
persons lack of
knowledge keeps a person blind to everything beyond the bubble. Learning
valuable knowledge can pop that bubble and reveal a world that you never knew existed.
Translation Tools
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Secret Code -
Media Literacy
What is the News Supposed to Be Like? -
Free Speech Zone.
3 Ways to Fix a Broken News Industry: Lara Setrakian (video and interactive text)
Interventions against misinformation also increase skepticism toward
reliable sources. Efforts to tackle false information through
fact-checking or media literacy initiatives increases the public's
skepticism
toward 'fake news'. However, they also breed distrust in genuine,
fact-based news sources.
Information is
layered, so
you need to see beyond the surface of words and images. You need to see
the whole picture and
visualize
all the
layers underneath. Then you can
accurately
filter
what information is needed, and avoid being distracted by irrelevant
details and
misinformation.
There is a serious problem
with how people
receive information and how people
process
information.
You can
ask two people the same question and get two different answers.
How can that be? How can
two judges who have access to the same
information come up with
two different answers?
How can the Supreme Court Judges be split when they see the same
information? There is no universal
education standard or universal media standard that delivers
facts and
information that are consistent, reliable and
accurate. We have math
standards so that the equation 2+2=4 is the same for everyone. But when
people can make up their own answers and say that 2+2=13, then you have
lots of problems like crimes and corruption. So the human race is in
desperate need of a
universal communication standard that guarantees that
everyone has the same facts and has the same
procedure on how to process
those facts effectively, efficiently, and accurately. Life exists because
DNA has the instructions on how to develop. But humans don't have an
instruction book for life, or a book that explains how to develop as a
person.
Group Decision
Making -
Conformity.
Sorry to Burst your
Bubble is a saying that means when you have to tell someone an
unpleasant
truth
about something. To give someone information that will probably disappoint
them. To give someone bad news that ruins their expectations and reveals
that their beliefs about something were wrong. This
enlightenment
metaphorically
bursts the bubble that a person lived
in, and now that the bubble has burst, they can finally see what they
could not see before, the lies and the deceit that they were blind to, all
because they
lived in a bubble, and that bubble was
their
fantasy world.
Informing the Public - Briefed - Updated - Know What's Going On
Inform is to
impart or
communicate
information
or
knowledge.
To give or tell someone
facts or
information. Give an
essential or
formative principle or
quality to
someone. A
speech act that
conveys information or
predictions.
Teaching.
Informed is
having enough knowledge
of a particular subject or situation. A
good education.
Conversant is being
well informed about or
knowing thoroughly.
To be familiar with something or
knowledgeable about
something.
Shed Light on Something
is to help to
explain
something by providing further information about it. To make it possible
to
understand or
know more about something. To make something more clear by
shining more light on
it, with light being a metaphor for more information.
Up to Speed is when
you have all the latest and most recent information about a subject or
activity and are able to
understand or to
do something well.
Public Service Announcement or PSA is a
message in the
public interest that is
disseminated without charge, with the
objective of raising
awareness of a
problem,
as well as,
changing public attitudes and
behavior towards a
social issue.
Public Health Policy is defined as
evidence-based
health information in the form of laws or
regulations that can help
prevent disease,
harm and
abuse by
promoting healthy behaviors
and
better decision
making such as
eating
healthy,
exercising,
avoiding
harmful drugs,
avoiding
foods with pesticides,
avoiding
tainted water,
avoiding
products with
harmful chemicals, avoiding
risky behaviors such as
greed,
abuse,
lying, and avoiding
things that are
known to be bad
or
harmful to others
and not just yourself.
Science Awareness -
News Worthy -
Public Information Officer
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Information Stations -
Freedom of Information
Situation Awareness is the
understanding of an
environment, its elements, and how it changes with respect to time or
other factors. Situational awareness is important for effective decision
making in many environments. Defined as the perception of the elements in
the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of
their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future.
Spatial Awareness.
Situated Cognition is a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable
from doing by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to
social, cultural and physical contexts. Situativity theorists suggest a
model of knowledge and learning that requires
thinking on the fly rather
than the storage and retrieval of conceptual knowledge. In essence,
cognition cannot be separated from the context. Instead knowing exists, in
situ, inseparable from context, activity, people, culture, and language.
Therefore, learning is seen in terms of an individual's increasingly
effective performance across situations rather than in terms of an
accumulation of knowledge, since what is known is co-determined by the
agent and the context.
Enactivism is a position in cognitive science that argues that
cognition arises through a dynamic interaction between an acting organism
and its environment. It claims that the environment of an organism is
brought about, or enacted, by the active exercise of that organism's
sensorimotor processes.
Activism.
Action-Specific Perception is a psychological theory that people
perceive their environment and events within it in terms of their ability
to act. This theory hence suggests that a person's capability to carry out
a particular task affects how they perceive the different aspects and
methods involved in that task.
Evident is something
clearly revealed to the mind or
to the
senses or
judgment. Capable of being seen or
noticed.
Proclaim is to
declare publicly and
make widely known. To state or announce.
Proclamation to
make public by announcement. An
official declaration
issued by a person of authority to make certain announcements known.
Proclamations are currently used within the governing framework of some
nations and are usually issued in the name of the head of state.
Declare is to
announce publicly or
officially. To
state firmly that
something is true. To judge or state to be. To state emphatically and
authoritatively. To proclaim one's
support for
something or to be
against something.
Impart is to
transmit knowledge or skills.
To serve as the
medium for
transmission. To allow movement of information.
To Teach.
Signify is to make
something
known with a word or
a
signal or by
expressing
the
meaning something.
Denote is to
make something known or to give something
meaning.
Knowledge with a Purpose.
Convey is to
make
things known and to pass on
information
or
transfer information to another
or others.
Disseminate is to cause
something to
become
widely known.
Disseminator is someone who
spreads the news or
communicates information.
Mass Communication is the process of imparting and exchanging
information through
mass media to large segments of the population. It is usually
understood for relating to various forms of media, as its technologies are
used for the dissemination of information, of which journalism and
advertising are part.
Mass Collaboration
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Progress Report -
Public Relations -
Diplomacy Informer is one
who
reveals confidential
information to the police or other authority.
A
source of
enlightenment.
Crisis Management -
Journalism -
Whistle Blowing -
Activism -
Learning
Tell It Like It Is means for someone to
describe the
facts of a
situation no matter how unpleasant they may be.
Tell It To Me Straight is to ask someone to
speak bluntly, directly, and
truthfully
without giving a
watered
down version of the facts and without beating about the bush. It is to
give someone just the facts that are straightforward and in a direct way.
Blunt is characterized by
directness in manner or
speech without being
subtle and without evasion.
Evasion is
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an
unpleasant truth.
Simplifying Messages.
Don't Pull Any Punches is to speak very
bluntly and directly, without regard to whether one's words may upset
someone. To behave unrestrainedly, hold nothing back or to act without
restraint or limitations.
Just remember
that the truth is debatable.
The Genie
is out of the Bottle is to make information known to everyone that
causes a situation to change, so that it is no longer possible to go back
to an earlier state because the truth is known.
Substance is the choicest or
most essential
or most
vital part of some idea or experience. The idea that is
intended.
What a communication is about; the information conveyed or
area of
interest. The
real physical matter
of which a person or thing consists.
Gist of It.
Disclosure is the
speech act of making
something
evident or
clearly revealed to the mind or the
senses or
judgment. Capable of being seen or
noticed.
Full
Disclosure is to fully disclose
evidence of
proven factual
information gathered and
present it to an individual or group.
Full
disclosure is the acknowledgement of possible
conflicts of interest in
one's work.
Full disclosure is the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission's requirement that publicly traded companies release and
provide for the
free exchange of all material
facts that are
relevant to
their ongoing business operations. No
secrecy
and no
withholding of
important information.
Explaining Risk -
Consumer Education -
Advising -
Priorities -
Information
Extraction
Open Knowledge promotes and
shares
information at no charge, including both content and data.
Open Source
Curriculum.
Media Transparency is determining how and why information is conveyed
through various means.
Open -
Transparent -
Information
Stations.
Briefing or
Being Briefed is a
condensed
summary of
relevant facts that outlines important matters and information
that is needed to be prepared for the actions that have to be taken that
would help
maintain stability and also
improve the quality of life by
becoming more effective and more efficient. A briefing helps to explain
your
priorities and the most important
responsibilities that you have.
Things that you have to do, but it does not include everything that you
can do. You still have other options and other choices that you have to
make during the day. The briefing is just the beginning. May the force be with you.
To Do List.
Citizens
need their Briefing too.
What if you can't
understand an intelligence briefing?
Psychological Debriefing is broadly defined as a set of procedures
including
counseling and the
giving of information aimed at preventing
psychological morbidity
and aiding
recovery
after a
traumatic event.
Debriefing is the act of
informing
participants about the intentions of the study in which they just
participated; during this process, researchers reveal any deceptions that
occurred and explain why deception was necessary. Debriefing typically
occurs at the conclusion of participants' study involvement.
Debriefing
is a
report of a
mission
or
project or the information so obtained. It is a structured process
following an exercise or event that reviews the actions taken. As a
technical term, it implies a specific and
active intervention process that
has developed with more formal meanings such as operational debriefing. It
is classified into different types, which include military, experiential,
and psychological debriefing, among others.
President's Daily Brief is a top secret document produced and given
each morning at 07:45 to the President of the United States, and is also
distributed to a small number of top-level US officials who are approved
by the president, and includes highly classified intelligence analysis,
information about covert operations of the US
Central Intelligence Agency
or CIA and reports from the most sensitive US sources or those shared by
allied intelligence agencies.
Intelligence
briefing is the highly classified summary of the nation's secrets.
Whether ex-presidents get intel briefings is entirely up to the sitting
president. As a courtesy, former presidents are typically assured
continued access to the country’s secrets when they request it, except for
trump. Trump was not known to fully or regularly read the President's
Daily Brief when he was in office. He was instead orally briefed two or
three times a week by his intelligence officials, CNN has reported.
Situation Room is an intelligence management center to monitor and
deal with crises at home and abroad and to conduct secure communications
with outside (often overseas) persons. The Situation Room has secure,
advanced communications
equipment for the president to maintain command and control of U.S. forces
around the world. The Situation Room staff is about 130 people, including
five watch teams, which monitor domestic and international events; a
travel support team; video operators; and communications technicians. Each
watch team includes six duty officers, a communications assistant, and a
senior intelligence analyst, though the number and composition of the
teams may vary, depending on shift requirements and workload. The teams
are staffed from a pool of senior personnel from agencies in the
intelligence community and from the military. These members are chosen
from heavily vetted nominations made by their parent agencies and are
apolitical. They stand watch round the clock, monitoring world events and
keeping senior White House staff apprised of significant incidents.
Defense Intelligence Agency informs national civilian and defense
policymakers about the military intentions and capabilities of foreign
governments and non-state actors. It also provides intelligence
assistance, integration and coordination across uniformed
military service
intelligence components, which remain structurally separate from DIA.
The agency's role encompasses the collection and analysis of
military-related foreign political, economic, industrial, geographic, and
medical and health intelligence. DIA produces approximately one-fourth of
all intelligence content that goes into the President's Daily Brief.
Intelligence Assessment is the development of
forecasts of behavior or
recommended courses of action to the
leadership of an organization, based
on a wide range of available information sources both overt and covert.
Assessments are developed in response to requirements declared by the
leadership in order to
inform decision making. Assessment may be carried
out on behalf of a state, military or commercial organization with a range
of available sources of information available to each.
Business Intelligence.
Intel is short for intelligence
that means
useful information
concerning a subject of interest, or information of military or political
value.
Open Source Intelligence is the
collection and analysis of data gathered from open sources (covert and
publicly available sources) to produce actionable intelligence.
Intelligence Cycle is the fundamental cycle of intelligence processing
in a civilian or
military
intelligence agency or in law enforcement as a closed path consisting
of repeating nodes. The stages of the intelligence cycle include the
issuance of requirements by decision makers, collection, processing,
analysis, and publication of intelligence. The circuit is completed when
decision makers provide feedback and revised requirements. The
intelligence cycle is also called the Intelligence Process by the U.S.
Department of Defense and the uniformed services. The intelligence
cycle is an effective way of processing information and turning it into
relevant and actionable intelligence.
Essential Elements of Information is any critical intelligence
information required by intelligence consumers to perform their mission.
Vital Intelligence can be obtained by
combining two pieces of Strategic Information, or through intelligence
networks.
Intelligence Collection Management is the process of
managing and
organizing the
collection of intelligence from various sources.
Knowledge Management.
Need
to Know is having access to information that is
necessary for one to
conduct one's official duties.
Certain information can be
restrictive because it is considered to be very sensitive, so only a
few people may have access to the information because they are on a
need to know basis.
Right to Information -
Inside Job -
Knowledge Gap
Right to know is the legal principle that the
individual has the right
to know the chemicals to which they may be exposed in their daily living.
It is embodied in federal law in the United States as well as in local
laws in several states. "Right to Know" laws take two forms: Community
Right to Know and Workplace Right to Know. Each grants certain rights to
those groups.
Pretend to Know.
Insight is the understanding of a specific
cause and
effect within a particular
context. The term insight can have several related meanings: A piece
of
information.
The act or result of
understanding the
inner nature of things or of seeing
intuitively or
noesis. An
introspection. The power of
acute
observation and
deduction,
discernment, and
perception,
called intellection or noesis. An understanding of cause and effect based
on identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context,
or
scenario.
An insight that
manifests itself suddenly, such as understanding how to solve a
difficult problem, is sometimes called by the German word Aha-Erlebnis.
The term was coined by the German psychologist and theoretical linguist
Karl Bühler. It is also known as an
epiphany,
eureka moment or
the penny dropping moment. Sudden sickening realizations identifying a
problem rather than solving it, so Uh-oh rather than Aha moments are
further seen in negative insight. A further example of
negative insight is chagrin
which is annoyance at the obviousness of a solution missed up until the
point of insight, an example of this being the Homer Simpson's D'oh!
Inside Information is information that
is only available to people within an organization or for people who have
contacts within an organization.
Secrecy -
Insider Trading -
Knowledge Divide -
TreasonState of Affairs is a
situation
or set of
circumstances
that are
happening at a particular time within a society or group. Usually
things that are important and
require attention.
When it comes to the state of affairs, an accurate
determination of
the
facts can often be
misunderstood when
personal beliefs and
biases are incorporated
into the
message, which would
cause information to be
subjective.
You need a lot of knowledge and information if you want to
see the whole picture
accurately enough.
Situation Report is a a
report on a situation
containing verified, factual information that gives a clear picture of the
"who, what, where, when, why and how" of an incident or situation. Many
organizations use situation reports to give superiors the input and
information they require to make correct and appropriate decisions.
Emergency management organizations, government agencies, armed services,
businesses, law enforcement agencies, humanitarian nongovernmental
organizations and diplomats all rely on situation reports.
White House Situation
Room.
Matter at Hand is the issue, topic, or task
that is currently being discussed or is the current
priority.
Fill Someone In is to give them the
necessary information or recently acquired information. Fill me in, what's
happening? What's the latest? Give me an update.
Giving Someone a Heads-Up is to tell
someone that something is going to happen or to
warn someone about
something that is going to happen. To look up because of possible
danger.
To be alert and have attention, and to look ahead.
Scope is an estimate or a determination of
the nature, value, quality, ability, extent, or the significance of
something. The state of the environment in which a situation exists.
The Gist of It.
Reality Check is when you are
reminded of the state
of things in the
real world.
Reminded is to cause someone to
remember something, especially a
commitment or
necessary
course of action.
Knowledge
Communications -
Knowledge Distributing
-
Knowledge Economy -
Information
Stations
Update is the latest
new information that
updates your old information and brings it up to date. Giving you a more
current and more modern
updated version of
something.
Reboot.
Patch is a set of
changes to a computer program or its supporting data
designed to
update,
edit,
fix, or
improve it. A short
set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program. A connection
intended to be used for a limited time.
Revision is altering or
modifying or changing an
earlier decision.
Editing
that involves writing something again. To
reorganize for
the purpose of updating and
improving.
Get the Word Out is
to inform people and let people know about something important.
Notify
is to inform somebody of something that may be
important.
Notification is informing someone using
words. The action of notifying someone or something.
Notification System is a combination of software and hardware that
provides a means of delivering a
message to a set of recipients.
Emergency Action Notification is used to
alert the residents of the
United States of a
national
emergency.
Notification Service provides means to
send a notice to many persons
at once. Notifications may be by e-mail, telephone, fax, text messages,
etc. Identical messages may be broadcast, or the messages may be
personalized. A message may, or may not require a response.
Public Interest Law -
Welfare or Well-Being of the General Public
Status Quo is the
perceived existing
conditions or the
perceived state of
affairs regarding
social or
political issues.
The status quo is usually
measured without a standard
baseline, so its
interpretation can be vague.
The
status
quo can also mean to keep things the way they presently are, similar
to the
conservative mentality that doesn't explain what they are actually
conserving, except for
conformity. Status quo ante is Latin for the way things were before.
Condition is a
state of health
or
stability
at a particular time. Information that should be kept in mind when making
a
decision. A
statement of what is required as part of an
agreement. The
procedure that is varied
in order to
estimate a
variable's
effect by
comparison with a
control condition.
Public Knowledge is
information that is
generally known and is usually available to anyone and that most people
usually know because it has been reported in the news. "If you don't know,
now you know."
My Work is Public Knowledge, but public
knowledge
doesn't always work. Just putting the
knowledge out there is not enough.
People need to understand the value of knowledge and be interested in
becoming more knowledgeable, and have a commitment to
learning. Everyone
also needs
access to knowledge. Just because information is out there, that
doesn't mean that it's in there, or
in the hearts and
in the minds of
people. There has to be a
follow-up or a
test of
some kind so that we can confirm that the information and knowledge has been understood
effectively.
I could say that my life is an
open book, but not everyone can read, and not everyone can
comprehend what they
read or accurately
interpret what they read, and there are some people who just
pretend that they
read and
pretend
to understand.
Open Book is a
person or thing that is easy to learn about and understand, or someone who
you can easily know what they're thinking or feeling. The
open book is a
symbol of learning and
knowledge.
It's Common
Knowledge
that many people lack common
knowledge.
This may sound like a
contradiction, but that is exactly what causes
contradictions, the lack of common knowledge.
Common Sense.
Publication is the
communication of
something to the
public and
making information
generally known. Offered for
distribution. .
Publisher is a
person engaged in
publications or
printed matter
for sale or for distribution, such as periodicals,
books or music. Publisher
can also mean the proprietor of a
newspaper.
Public Interest Journalism gives people the
information they need to take part in the
democratic
process. They provide
independent
journalism that matters.
Public Interest
Law -
Ethical Journalism Network
Public Interest is the
welfare or
well-being of the general
public and
society.
National Interest is a rationality of
governing referring to a
sovereign state's
goals and ambitions, be they economic, military, cultural, or
otherwise.
Common
Good refers to either what is shared and
beneficial for all or most
members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by
citizenship,
collective
action, and active participation in the realm of politics and
public service.
Creative Commons is an international network devoted to educational
access and expanding the range of
creative works available
for others to build upon legally and to share.
Science Commons was a creative commons project for designing
strategies and tools for faster, more efficient web-enabled
scientific
research. The organization's goals were to identify unnecessary barriers
to research, craft policy guidelines and legal agreements to lower those
barriers, and develop technology to make research data and materials
easier to find and use. Its overarching goal was to speed the translation
of data into discovery and thereby the value of research.
Hackerspace.
Science Communication is the practice of
informing,
educating, sharing
wonderment, and
raising awareness of
science-related topics.
Science
communicators and audiences are ambiguously defined and the
expertise and
level of science knowledge varies with each group. Two types of defined
science communication are science outreach (typically conducted by
professional scientists to
non-expert audiences) and
science "
inreach"
(expert to
expert communication
from similar or different scientific backgrounds). An example of inreach
is scholarly communication and publication in scientific journals. Science
communication may generate support for
scientific research or study, or to
inform decision making, including political and
ethical thinking. There is
increasing emphasis on explaining methods rather than simply findings of
science. This may be especially critical in addressing
scientific
misinformation, which spreads easily because it is not subject to the
constraints of scientific method. Science communicators can use
entertainment and persuasion including humor, storytelling and metaphors.
Scientists can be trained in some of the techniques used by actors to
improve their communication.
Popular Science is an interpretation of science intended for a general
audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific
developments, popular science is more broad-ranging. It may be written by
professional science journalists or by scientists themselves. It is
presented in many forms, including books, film and television
documentaries, magazine articles, and web pages.
Open Science make scientific research, data and dissemination
accessible to all levels of an
inquiring society, amateur or professional.
Open Science Data is publishing observations and results of
scientific
activities available for anyone to analyze and reuse.
Open Source.
Open Data
is the idea that some data should be
freely available to everyone to use
and republish as they wish, without restrictions from
copyright,
patents or other mechanisms of control.
Access to Knowledge should be linked to fundamental principles of
justice, freedom, and economic development.
Knowledge Divide.
Announcement is a
formal
public statement.
A public statement containing information about an event that has happened
or is going to happen.
Bulletin Board is a surface intended for the posting of public
messages, for example, to advertise items wanted or for sale, announce
events, or provide information. Bulletin boards are often made of a
material such as cork to facilitate addition and removal of messages, as
well as a writing surface such as blackboard or whiteboard. A bulletin
board which combines a pinboard (corkboard) and writing surface is known
as a combination bulletin board. Bulletin boards can also be entirely in
the digital domain and placed on computer networks so people can leave and
erase messages for other people to read and see, as in a bulletin board
system.
Community Bulletin Board is a digital signage system that public,
educational, and government access cable television providers use as a
Barker channel to keep communities up to date of events listings, weather
and other news that can be delivered by using digital on-screen graphics.
The electronic bulletin board concept is a form of Technological
convergence.
Narration is a
message that tells the
particulars of an
act or occurrence or course of
events.
The
act of giving an account
describing
incidents or a course of events. The second section of
addressing an audience
formally in which the
facts are
set forth.
Messenger or
Courier is a person or
thing that
carries a
message.
Carrying communications, verbal or
written.
Dispatcher are
communications
personnel
responsible
for receiving and transmitting
pure and
reliable messages, tracking vehicles and equipment, and recording
other
important information.
Diplomat.
Using the
Internet to Disseminate Information (PDF) -
Freedom of Information Act.
News Media are those elements of the
mass
media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a
target
public.
Aggregator is
client software or a web application which aggregates syndicated web
content such as online newspapers, blogs, podcasts, and video blogs (vlogs)
in one location for easy viewing.
Search Aggregator (search engines).
Aggregate
is to
gather and
combine several different elements of separate units to form into a
mass or whole. A
sum total of many different things taken together. A material or
structure formed from a loosely
compacted mass of fragments or particles. The whole amount.
Brief
in
law is
a written legal document used in various
legal adversarial
systems that is presented to a court arguing why one party to a particular
case should prevail.
Trial briefs are
presented at trial to resolve a disputed point of evidence.
Legal briefs are used as part of arguing a
pre-trial motion in a case or proceeding.
Merit
briefs (or briefs on the merits) refers to briefs on the inherent
rights and wrongs of a case, absent any emotional or technical biases.
Amicus briefs refer to briefs filed by
persons not directly party to the case. These are often groups that have a
direct interest in the outcome.
Appellate briefs
refer to briefs that occur at the appeal stage.
Introduce is to bring something before the
public for the first time. Something that comes before and indicates the
approach of something or someone. Furnish with a preface or introduction.
Presented.
Introducing is to cause something or
someone to be known personally. Bring something new to an environment.
Bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment. Bring before
the public for the first time.
Initiate.
Introduction
is introducing something new. Formally making a person to be known to
another or to the public. The act of starting something for the first time
or the first section of a communication. A new
proposal.
Proclamation a public or
official announcement, especially one dealing
with a matter of great importance. The public or official announcement of
an important matter. A clear
declaration of something. is an
official declaration
issued by a person of authority to make certain announcements known.
Proclamations are currently used within the governing framework of some
nations and are usually issued in the name of the head of state.
Declaration in law is a formal or explicit statement or announcement.
The formal announcement of the beginning of a state or condition. An
authoritative establishment of fact. Declarations take various forms in
different legal systems.
Independence.
Public Information Officers constantly review media sources and determine
the best ways to announce news, handle crises, or release information.
They design communication programs and strategies relating to media
relations, maintain and update media databases, and coordinate special
public relations events.
Public Information Officer duties & responsibilities:
Communicate
critical information effectively to the public. Write press releases and
prepare information for distribution by media outlets. Draft speeches and
arrange interviews for
government officials. Respond to requests for information from media
outlets. Be the face of a government organization in the absence of an
elected leader. Help maintain and uphold a certain image and identity for
government officials or organizations. Public Information Officer Skills &
Competencies:
Interpersonal
skills: Public information officers interact with people regularly,
from the media and press to the public and government officials.
Organizational skills: People in
this position must be able to effectively work on several projects at the
same time.
Problem-solving
skills: Public information officers must be able to handle difficult
and sensitive situations with discretion and grace.
Communication skills: They
must be able to write compelling, concise press releases and speeches and
also effectively speak in public.
News is
information about current events. This may be provided through many
different medias such as word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting,
electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and
witnesses to events. Common topics for
news reports include war,
government, politics, education, health, the environment, economy,
business, fashion, and entertainment, as well as athletic events, quirky
or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning royal ceremonies,
laws, taxes, public health, and criminals, have been dubbed news since
ancient times. Humans exhibit a nearly universal desire to learn and share
news, which they satisfy by talking to each other and sharing information.
Technological and social developments, often driven by government
communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which
news can spread, as well as influenced its content. The genre of news as
we know it today is closely associated with the
newspaper.
What's the
buzz, tell me what's a-happening? (youtube)
When you have a lot of valuable
knowledge, it
creates a lot of energy inside you. This causes you to feel the need to
share this knowledge and release some of that energy to the receiver, like
with
electron sharing. But
when people can't understand you, or get what you're talking about, then
you have to be careful what you say, how you say it, why you say it and
when you say it.
Conversations need to be modified for the
listener. This
is why
personalized
education is so extremely effective and efficient. You just can't
state facts, you also have to interpret and
translate those facts in a
meaningful way that can be clearly understood. Releasing the energy of
knowledge needs to have a receiver who can understand and utilize that
knowledge effectively and efficiently. The biggest responsibility of
having knowledge is knowing how to
communicate knowledge
effectively and efficiently. If you give someone
information,
and then they misuse that information or misunderstand that information,
and then they do something harmful to themselves or harmful to others,
then there may be a casual relation to that information. And its not so
much the information that you give a person, it's the information that
person already has that is being used to
process and
interpret new
information. If someone has a lack of knowledge and also lacks the ability
to effectively process information, then just giving them a small amount
of information or incomplete information, may do more harm than good.
There has to be instructions that comes with information.
Diffuse is to move outward. Cause to become
widely known.
Penetrate is to pass into or through, often by overcoming
resistance. Come to understand. Become clear or enter one's
consciousness or
emotions. Make one's way deeper into or through. Spread or diffuse
through.
Sink In is to become clear
or enter one's
consciousness or
emotions. Pass through. click. fall into place.
Get Across is to communicate successfully.
Become clear or enter one's
consciousness or
emotions. Fall into place.
Get Through
is to succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming
problems. Become clear or enter one's
consciousness or
emotions. Finish a task completely.
Reach
is to be at the destination after some time, either real or abstract; come
to a given position. Get to a certain state, level, or point in time. To
gain with effort. To exert much effort or energy. An area in which
something acts or operates or has power or control. Move forward or upward
in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense. Be in or establish
communication with. The limits within which something can be effective.
The news is not where you go to get informed.
Most of the information
presented on news media outlets is
fragmented, random
or
vague. This causes
most people to experience the illusion of learning.
People receive the
information passively as if there is no other information needed. Too
much of the
News is
dramatized, so most people learn very little, and they also become
either
distracted, misinformed or traumatized.
We have to Design
our own News Information Platform. We then need to teach people how to learn
effectively and efficiently as possible.
Learning shouldn't be a chore.
Learning should be exhilarating experience. Even though some of the things
that we learn can be incredibly devastating, we should always be grateful
that we can learn. To know will always be better than not knowing.
How would you know
if you didn't know?
I need to know -
Mark Anthony (youtube) - If it's true don't leave me all alone out
here, Wondering if you're ever gonna take me there, Tell me what you're
feeling cause I need to know, Girl you've gotta let me know which way to
go, Cause I need to know, I need to know, Tell me baby girl cause I need
to know, I need to know, I need to know, Tell me baby girl cause
I need to know.
Multitasking - Doing Several Things at Once
Multimedia Multitasking
involves using TV, the
Web, radio, telephone, print, or any other media in
conjunction with another. Also referred to as "
simultaneous media use," or
"
multi-communicating," this behavior has emerged as increasingly common,
especially among younger media users.
Simultaneous Multimedia Multitasking,
for when you have to Search Far and Wide, and Dig Deep in order to get the
Facts about the
world so you can see the world for what it is.
Parallel Computing.
Polychronic Person is able to perform
multiple tasks simultaneously. A polychronic person may watch television,
surf the Internet and talk on the telephone at the same time.
Life is a Balancing Act.
Human Multitasking
is doing more than one thing at a time, or doing
several things at once, almost like what the
human body does
every second, but not as good. Multitasking is a human
ability to perform
more than one task, or activity, over a short period of time. Like talking on the phone while writing an e-mail. Or
cooking several things on the stove at the same time while maintaining
temperatures and
cooking times, and measuring ingredients and preparing
other food items as part of a big meal. People can also
play several
musical instruments at the same time or play the
piano while
singing at the same time, where you need to
coordinate several body movements
simultaneously. But we're not effective in
paying
attention to multiple tasks at the same time, so we
switch back and forth
between tasks. The trick to effective multitasking is
knowing when to
switch focus. But multitasking does have its flaws. We can't
effectively listen to someone speaking when we're thinking about
something else. Like with the
dual-task paradigm
and
cognitive flexibility limits.
Is multitasking bad for you? No.
But abusing your
ability to multitask is definitely bad for you. Like when trying to do too
many things at once. Don't over estimate your abilities. You still have to learn how to use things effectively and efficiently,
like with
technology. This is
because learning the wrong things
is bad for you, and doing the wrong things is bad for you, especially
habitual things that you're not
conscious of. One of the bad
things about multitasking is that your
awareness is
fragmented and
unfocused, so mistakes can easily happen.
The good thing about
doing things at the same time
is that it can save time and increase your
productivity, but only when you fully
understand each task separately and have
mastered each
function and use. So you
still need to know how to
focus on just one
thing at a
time, and know how put all your energy towards just one thing, and do it
without being
distracted. Is
multitasking an
experience?
Yes.
Long-Term Multitasking is working on
several different
goals in the same time period. Focusing on one thing at
a time, but having several different things to focus on in the same day or
same time period. Like learning
several different skills in the same year. Or
cross training by exercising several body regions in the same workout. Or
balancing two or three jobs or careers or
several
responsibilities in the same day
or in the same week. You have to be able to mentally detach from your work
and also mentally reconnect or reattach to your work and be able to
activate work-related goals, while feeling dedicated to your work. Multitasking is an important
skill that
everyone needs to master. Multi-tasking shows the power of the brain and
its logical analyzing ability to manipulate multiple variables held in the
mind
simultaneously.
Hyperconnectivity is a word used to define the connectivity that
exists in
digital environments and the interaction between information systems,
data and devices, all of them related to each other through the internet.
Hyper-Connectivity is the person-to-person and person-to-machine
communication in networked organizations and networked societies. The term
refers to the use of multiple means of
communication, such as email,
instant messaging, telephone, face-to-face contact and
Web 2.0 information
services. Hyperconnectivity is also a trend in
computer networking in
which all things that can or should communicate through the
network will communicate
through the network. This encompasses person-to-person, person-to-machine
and machine-to-machine communication. The trend is fueling large increases
in bandwidth demand and changes in communications because of the
complexity, diversity and integration of new applications and devices
using the network.
Everything is
Connected -
Technology Addiction -
Technology AbuseCoordinate is
to bring movements into a
common action
or condition. To bring order and
organization
to things that are of equal importance, rank, or degree.
Collaboration.
Coordination is the skillful and
effective interaction of
movements. The
regulation of diverse
elements into an integrated and
harmonious operation.
Senses.
Concurrency means that multiple computations are
happening at the same time.
Concurrency is the ability of different parts or units of a program,
algorithm, or problem to be executed out-of-order or in partial order,
without affecting the outcome. This allows for parallel execution of the
concurrent units, which can significantly improve overall speed of the
execution in multi-processor and multi-core systems. In more technical
terms, concurrency refers to the decomposability of a program, algorithm,
or problem into order-independent or partially-ordered components or units
of computation.
Parallel Computing is a type of computation in which many calculations
or processes are
carried out
simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones,
which can then be solved at the same time.
The thing about multitasking is that I
can temporally ignore the things that I am grateful for and ignore the
things that I need to live, so that I can temporally focus on something
important that I need to think about in a particular moment in time. But
when I am
distracted
or worried about things that keeps me from being focused on things that I
really need to think about, then that's when multitasking becomes a
problem instead of a solution. Thinking is important, but it's what you
actually think about that is the most important thing, and not just the
process of thinking, but what exactly are you processing.
Unitasker is a person or thing that does
one single thing at a time.
Time Management -
Focus -
Planning -
Subconscious -
Inattentional Blindness
Researchers provide insight into how the brain multitasks while walking.
New research turns the old idiom about not being able to walk and chew gum
on its head. Scientists have shown that the healthy brain is able to
multitask while walking without sacrificing how either activity is
accomplished.
Can't Walk and Chew Gum at
the Same Time is a person who has untrained
coordination skills and a
low level of
intelligence.
In the Thick of Stuff is to be very
busy and preoccupied, or in the middle of doing things or busy doing
several things.
Computer Multitasking
is a concept of performing
multiple tasks or
processes over a
certain
period of time by executing them
concurrently. New tasks start and
interrupt already started ones before they have reached completion,
instead of executing the tasks
sequentially so each started task needs to
reach its end before a new one is started. As a result, a computer
executes segments of multiple tasks in an interleaved manner, while the
tasks share common processing resources such as
central processing units
and main memory. Multitasking does not necessarily mean that
multiple tasks are executing at exactly the same time or simultaneously. In
other words,
multitasking does not imply parallel execution, but it does
mean that more than one task can be part-way through execution at the same
time, and that more than one task is advancing over a given period of
time. Even on multiprocessor or multicore computers, which have multiple
CPUs/cores so more than one task can be executed at once (physically, one
per CPU or core), multitasking allows many more tasks to be run than there
are CPUs. In the case of a computer with a single CPU, only one task is
said to be running at any point in time, meaning that the CPU is actively
executing instructions for that task. Multitasking solves the problem by
scheduling which task may be the one running at any given time, and when
another waiting task gets a turn. The act of reassigning a CPU
from one
task to another one is called a context switch; the illusion of
parallelism is achieved when context switches occur frequently enough.
Operating systems may adopt one of many different scheduling strategies,
which generally fall into the following categories: In multiprogramming
systems, the running task keeps running until it performs an operation
that requires waiting for an external event (e.g. reading from a tape) or
until the computer's
scheduler forcibly swaps the running task out of the
CPU.
Multiprogramming systems are designed to maximize CPU usage. In
time-sharing systems, the running task is required to relinquish the CPU,
either voluntarily or by an external event such as a hardware interrupt.
Time sharing systems are designed to allow several programs to execute
apparently
Simultaneously. In real-time systems, some waiting tasks are
guaranteed to be given the CPU when an external event occurs.
Real Time Systems are designed to control mechanical devices such as industrial
robots, which require timely processing.
Multi -Processing -
Batch Process -
Operating Systems
Multitasking is a very important subject to attention and there seems to
be conflicting evidence on both sides of the argument. These arguments go
back and forth because there are many variables involved with
multitasking. In some instances, multitasking two activities such as
walking and breathing are second nature, and if someone has had practice
performing several tasks simultaneously, multitasking would also increase
productivity. However, a meta-analysis has been performed by Caid,
Johnston, Willness, Asbridge, and Steel indicating that multitasking
texting and driving results in poorer attention. Attention Residue
(context switching) – An individual needs to completely abandon a task in
order to fully focus on a secondary task. However, humans experience
difficulties switching and moving their attention between multiple
activities. Attention management can play a key role in helping people
manage pain by focusing their attention elsewhere while experiencing acute
pain. However, this must be done strategically, as the most important
factor in being a good distractor seems to be that the activity is
engaging and interesting for an individual.
Quick Look at the News
You should know how to
scan and
scroll without being
distracted by the
click-bait.
National Public Radio (OK sometimes) they stopped allowing
commenting because they hated
the fact that people were making readers aware of the
bullshit in some of
their stories. All things considered? Almost.
CBS (not good, a lot of
propaganda and
adds)
NBC
(not good, a lot of
propaganda and
adds)
World News
-
News Sites -
Tech
News
Independent News -
Science News
Science Daily (good,
sometimes great)
Reddit (unusual news)
FAIR works with both
activists and
journalists. We maintain a
regular dialogue with
reporters
at
news outlets across the country, providing
constructive critiques when
called for and applauding exceptional,
hard-hitting journalism.
FAIR is a national
media watch group that
has been offering well-documented
criticism of
media bias and
censorship since 1986.
Ground News is news
from
multiple perspectives that shows
media bias along with reliable
news from local and international sources.
Media Matters
-
Resilience.org -
The
Conversation.comDigg was removed in 2024,
because the adds really suck bad.
Sports News -
Women's News -
Citizen Journalism
Associated Press
is where a lot of news stories are copied from and repeated.
Check your Local Town News
and
Check your Local State News, but be
aware of
media control.
"The news, it's not all bad, it's not all good, and most
of it is not fully understood. It's nothing until someone
makes it something, and
it's nowhere unless someone
puts it
somewhere."
News Papers
City
News Papers (wiki)
Newspapers in the US (wiki)
News Papers by Country (
wiki)
Historical Newspapers
from the 1700s–2000s.
Community Newspapers
Online Newspaper is the online version of a newspaper, either as a
stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical.
Online Newspapers
New York Times
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
Financial Times
Business Week
Newseum
Newspaper Assoc. America
Editor and Publisher
Directories
Decline of Newspapers (wiki) -
Newspaper Deathwatch -
Media Monopolies -
Censorship -
Wealth Divide
News Desert refers to a community that is no longer covered by daily
or nondaily newspapers. Hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers were
closed in the 2000s and the 2010s. According to a study in 2018 by the UNC
School of Media and Journalism, more than 1,300 communities in the U.S.
are considered news deserts. Other communities, while not technically a
news desert, may be covered by a ghost newspaper, a publication that has
become a shadow of its former self. The total number of newspapers in the
U.S. fell from 8,891 in 2004 to 7,112 in 2018, a decline of 1,779
newspapers, including more than 60 daily newspapers. Of the remaining
publications, an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 newspapers were considered ghost
newspapers after scaling back their news coverage so much that they were
unable to fully cover their communities.
Ghost Newspapers are newspapers that still have a reputable name
but no longer have the resources to offer adequate coverage of their
community. They have no local journalists remaining on staff or have so
few journalists that the paper's ability to provide critical news and
information to residents in that community has been severely curtailed. In
the U.S. there are more than 3,100 counties in 50 states.
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Carla
Perez was the first woman from the Americas to summit Everest and K2
in the same year without supplemental oxygen in 2019. She was the sixth woman
and first Latin American to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen in 2016.
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Women's History Month
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Great Women
Hello Girls
was the colloquial name for American female switchboard operators in World War I.
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Gender Equality
Suffragette
were members of women's organizations in the late-19th and early-20th
centuries which advocated the extension of the "franchise", or the
right to vote in public
elections, to women. Franchise is a statutory right or privilege
granted to a person or group by a government (especially the
rights of citizenship and the
right to vote).
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National Women's Law Center.
All's Well and Fair (youtube)
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I Am Woman-Helen
Reddy (youtube)
Health
Threat Women Face (video)
Women Inventors.
150 Greatest Albums Made by Women.
Top 10 Female
Guitarists of All Time (youtube)
Women Letter Writers
in early modern Europe created lengthy correspondences, where they
expressed their intellect and their creativity; in the process, they also
left a rich historic legacy. Over time, a large number of women's
correspondences have been made the subject of publications. Some among
them ignored the literary value of these missives that were sometimes
circulated by their recipients.
Women
Journalists.
Girl
Stunt Reporter
Happy Black Woman
#BlackWomensHistoryMonth
Alice Coachman
Florence Nightingale
was an English
social reformer and
statistician, and the
founder of modern
nursing.
(12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910).
Women's History Museum.
Advancing
Women Artists
Young Women's Leadership Network.
3
lessons on success from an Arab businesswoman:
Leila Hoteit
(video and interactive text)
A political party for women's equality: Sandi Toksvig
(video and interactive text)
Desi Linden becomes first U.S. woman to win Boston Marathon in over 30
years. (2 hours, 39 minutes, 54 seconds).
How women in rural India turned courage into capital: Chetna Gala Sinha
(video and interactive text).
Emily Harrington becomes the first woman to free-climb El Capitan's
Golden Gate route in a single day. After years of effort, the 34-year-old
climber motored up El Cap's Golden Gate route and now joins the ranks of
Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, and Lynn Hill.
Men and Women Athelets Differences -
Gender Based Health
Care
Hazel Scott: Jazz's unsung artist-activist | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA
(youtube)
Tsang Yin-Hung is a Hong Kong mountaineer who has recorded the world's
fastest ascent of Everest by a woman with a time of just under 26 hours.
(aka or also known as Ada).
Maya
Gabeira set a new world record. The
73.5-foot wave she surfed on February 11 in Nazaré, Portugal, was the
largest wave surfed by anyone this year, earning Gabeira the WSL’s 2020
women’s XXL Biggest Wave Award. It also broke her own previous record, a
68-foot wave. By contrast, this year’s men’s XXL Biggest Wave Award
winner, Kai Lenny, rode a 70-foot wave.
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Education
Girl
Power is a slogan that encourages and celebrates women's empowerment,
independence, confidence and strength.
Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn was an American labor leader, activist, and feminist who
played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn
was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible
proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage. She
joined the Communist Party USA in 1936 and late in life, in 1961, became
its chairwoman. She was one of many party members prosecuted “under the
notorious Smith Act, which forbade any attempts to advocate, abet or teach
the violent destruction of the U.S. government. She died September 5, 1964
during a visit to the Soviet Union, where she was accorded a state funeral
with processions in Red Square attended by over 25,000 people. Elizabeth
was also known as “
The Rebel Girl” for her
fiery speeches, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born August 7, 1890 in Concord.
Jasmine
Crockett is an American lawyer and politician who is the U.S.
representative from Texas's 30th congressional district since 2023. Her
district covers most of South Dallas County and parts of Tarrant County,
including Dallas Love Field Airport. A member of the Democratic Party, she
previously represented the 100th district in the Texas House of
Representatives.
Reddit Video.
Fourth-Wave Feminism is a phase of feminism that began around 2012 and
is characterized by a focus on the empowerment of women and the use of
internet tools. Centered on intersectionality, the fourth wave examines
the interlocking systems of power that contribute to the stratification of
traditionally
marginalized groups. Fourth-wave feminists advocate for greater
representation of these groups in politics and business, and argue that
society would be more equitable if policies and practices incorporated the
perspectives of all people.
Feminism is a range
of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to
define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and
social equality
of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize
the male point of view, and that women are treated unfairly within those
societies. Efforts to change that include fighting gender stereotypes and
seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities for women
that are equal to those for men.
Micro-Feminism is the everyday actions that women are employing to
push back against day-to-day
sexism in the
workplace, one small act at a time. Focusing on small-scale acts of
resistance.
Discrimination -
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Harassment -
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Voting Everyday
The Feminine Mystique is a book by Betty Friedan that is widely
credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United
States. It was
published on February 19, 1963
by W. W. Norton. In 1957, Friedan was asked to conduct a survey of her
former Smith College classmates for their 15th anniversary reunion; the
results, in which she found that many of them were unhappy with their
lives as housewives, prompted her to begin research for The Feminine
Mystique, conducting interviews with other suburban housewives, as well as
researching psychology, media, and advertising. She originally intended to
create an article on the topic, not a book, but no magazine would publish
her article. During 1964, The Feminine Mystique became the bestselling
nonfiction book with over one million copies sold. In the book, Friedan
challenged the widely shared belief in the 1950s that "
fulfillment
as a woman had only one definition for American women after 1949—the
housewife-mother." The phrase "feminine mystique" was created by Friedan
to show the assumptions that women would be
fulfilled from their housework,
marriage, sexual lives, and children. It was said that women, who were
actually feminine, should not have wanted to work, get an education, or
have political opinions. Friedan wanted to prove that women were
unsatisfied but could not voice their feelings.
Chapter 1: Friedan points out that the average age of marriage was
dropping, the portion of women attending college was decreasing and the
birthrate was increasing for women throughout the 1950s, yet the
widespread trend of unhappy women persisted, although American culture
insisted that
fulfillment for women
could be found in marriage and housewifery. Although aware of and sharing
this dissatisfaction, women in the 1950s misinterpreted it as an
individual problem and rarely talked about it with other women. As Friedan
pointed out, "part of the strange newness of the problem is that it cannot
be understood in terms of the age-old material problems of man: poverty,
sickness, hunger, cold." This chapter concludes by declaring "We can no
longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more
than my husband and my children and my home.'
Chapter 3: Friedan recalls her own decision to conform to society's
expectations by giving up her promising career in psychology to raise
children, and shows that other young women still struggled with the same
kind of decision. Many women dropped out of school early to marry, afraid
that if they waited too long or became too educated, they would not be
able to attract a husband. Friedan argues at the end of the chapter that
although theorists discuss how men need to find their identity, women are
expected to be autonomous. She states, "Anatomy is woman's destiny, say
the theorists of femininity; the identity of woman is determined by her
biology." Friedan goes on to argue that the problem is women needing to
mature and find their human identity. She argues, "In a sense that goes
beyond any woman's life, I think this is a crisis of women growing up—a
turning point from an immaturity that has been called femininity to full
human identity.
Chapter 7: Friedan
discusses the
change in women's education
from the 1940s to the early 1960s, in which many women's schools
concentrated on non-challenging classes that focused mostly on marriage,
family, and other subjects deemed suitable for women, as educators
influenced by functionalism felt that too much education would spoil
women's femininity and capacity for sexual fulfillment. Friedan says that
this change in education arrested girls in their emotional development at
a young age, because they never had to face the painful identity crisis
and subsequent maturation that comes from dealing with many adult
challenges. Significant numbers of women responded angrily to the book,
which they felt implied that wives and mothers could never be fulfilled,
devalued the roles as mothers and housewives, but of course they were
wrong and they over reacted. The book implied that women should have
choices and freedoms, the same as men do. But
rightwing
extremists always freak-out and make crazy assumptions.
Third-Wave Feminism is an iteration of the feminist movement. It began
in the United States in the early 1990s and continued until the rise of
the fourth wave in the 2010s. Born in the 1960s and 1970s as members of
Generation X and grounded in the civil-rights advances of the second wave,
third-wave feminists embraced individualism in women and diversity and
sought to redefine what it meant to be a feminist. The third wave saw the
emergence of new feminist currents and theories, such as intersectionality,
sex positivity, vegetarian ecofeminism, transfeminism, and postmodern
feminism. According to feminist scholar Elizabeth Evans, the "confusion
surrounding what constitutes third-wave feminism is in some respects its
defining feature." The third wave is traced to the emergence of the riot
grrrl feminist punk subculture in Olympia, Washington, in the early 1990s, and to Anita Hill's televised testimony in 1991—to an all-male,
all-white Senate Judiciary Committee—that African-American judge Clarence
Thomas, nominated for and eventually confirmed to the Supreme Court of the
United States, had sexually harassed her. The term third wave is credited
to Rebecca Walker, who responded to Thomas's appointment to the Supreme
Court with an article in Ms. magazine, "Becoming the Third Wave" (1992).
She wrote: So I write this as a plea to all women, especially women of my
generation: Let Thomas' confirmation serve to remind you, as it did me,
that the fight is far from over. Let this dismissal of a woman's
experience move you to anger. Turn that outrage into political power. Do
not vote for them unless they work for us. Do not have sex with them, do
not break bread with them, do not nurture them if they don't prioritize
our freedom to control our bodies and our lives. I am not a post-feminism
feminist. I am the Third Wave. Walker sought to establish that third-wave
feminism was not just a reaction, but a movement in itself, because the
feminist cause had more work ahead. The term intersectionality—to describe
the idea that women experience "layers of oppression" caused, for example,
by gender, race and class—had been introduced by Kimberlé Williams
Crenshaw in 1989, and it was during the third wave that the concept
flourished. As feminists came online in the late 1990s and early 2000s and
reached a global audience with blogs and e-zines, they broadened their
goals, focusing on abolishing gender-role stereotypes and expanding
feminism to include women with diverse racial and cultural identities.
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independent source of news and views from the academic and research
community.
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TV News Lies
Fox News was Removed for
slander
and
fake news violations
(shock therapy failure).
Info Wars was Removed for
slander
and
fake news violations.
Alex Jones is just one thousands of republicans that should be sued for
lying and spreading fraudulent information. Greed poisons the mind and
turns you into an asshole.
Roar Mag
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RSS or
Really Simple Syndication is a web feed that allows users and applications
to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format.
Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different
websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitor sites for
new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News
aggregators (or "RSS readers") can be built into a browser, installed on a
desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.
Web Feed
or News Feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently
updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby
allowing users to subscribe a channel to it by adding the feed resource
address to a news aggregator client (also called a feed reader or a news
reader).
Web Syndication is making content available from one website to other
sites. Most commonly, websites are made available to provide either
summaries or full renditions of a website's recently added content. The
term may also describe other kinds of content licensing for reuse.
News Aggregator is client software or a web application that
aggregates digital content such as online newspapers, blogs, podcasts, and
video blogs (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing. The updates
distributed may include journal tables of contents, podcasts, videos, and
news items.
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