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Is Twitter A Bad Place? The Responsibility That Social Media May Have Had In The 2021 Storming Of Capitol Hill., Ioannis Stavrakakis, Damian Gordon, Dympna O'Sullivan, Andrea Curley
Is Twitter A Bad Place? The Responsibility That Social Media May Have Had In The 2021 Storming Of Capitol Hill., Ioannis Stavrakakis, Damian Gordon, Dympna O'Sullivan, Andrea Curley
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The events of 6 th January 2021 in the United States of America, where rioters stormed the heart of their democracy, the US Capitol Complex (which houses their bicameral parliament) were shocking to see. The reasons for this riot were myriad, including to protest the outcomes of the presidential elections and two senate elections, as well as to prevent the counting that day of the electoral votes that formally certify the election result. These events will be analysed and reflected upon for years to come, and blame will be placed at many people’s doors, and inevitability one that has already …
Check Your Tech, Whose Responsibility Is It When Cyberharassment Occurs?, Dympna O'Sullivan, Damian Gordon, Michael Collins, Emma Murphy
Check Your Tech, Whose Responsibility Is It When Cyberharassment Occurs?, Dympna O'Sullivan, Damian Gordon, Michael Collins, Emma Murphy
Conference papers
Social media has become a dominant aspect of many people’s lives in many countries. Unfortunately that resulted in widespread issues of bullying and harassment. While frequently this harrassment is intentional, there have been occasions where automated processes have been inadvertently responsible for this sort of harassment. The software tools that allow people to harass others could have further features added to them to reduce the amount of harassment that occurs, but more often than not, where programmers are developing these systems then don’t anticipate the range of ways that these technologies will be used (this is called “consequence scanning”). The …