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Hickman, Annalee, How to Teach Algorithms to Legal Research Students (September 1, 2020). 28 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing (forthcoming 2021), BYU Law Research Paper No. 20-30, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3731127 “This Article calls for legal research professors to include in their curriculum the role of algorithms in electronic legal research. It also includes …
Harvard Kennedy School – “The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns. This resource is intended for researchers, journalists, technologists, policymakers, educators, and civil society organizers who want to learn about detecting, documenting, describing, and debunking misinformation..”
The New Republic: “America’s biggest, most powerful book publisher is about to get even bigger and more powerful. On Wednesday, a number of outlets reported that Penguin Random House had reached an agreement with ViacomCBS to purchase Simon & Schuster, the nation’s third-largest publisher, for $2 billion. The resulting conglomerate would publish at least a …
Fast Company – “Keep six feet of distance. Issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and adopted by many businesses, it’s the guideline that most of us have lived by during COVID-19. But as the climate has turned cold and some of us have moved indoors, John Bush, a professor of applied mathematics …
Enslaved.org – “As of December 2020, we have built a robust, open-source architecture to discover and explore nearly a half million people records and 5 million data points. From archival fragments and spreadsheet entries, we see the lives of the enslaved in richer detail. Yet there’s much more work to do, and with the help …
Law.com – “Lyrissa Lidsky, dean of the University of Missouri School of Law, knew something wasn’t right when she came home two weeks ago so exhausted that she fell asleep in her work clothes and slumbered through the night. That marked the start of a two-week bout with COVID-19 where she vacillated between feeling well …
Via LLRX – Looking on the Bright Side: Four Ways Zoom Makes Legal Research Instruction Better – As many of you have surely experienced this semester, teaching legal research virtually poses a number of challenges, but Matthew Flyntz found that it also provides a few benefits over traditional in-person instruction. In a world of negativity, Flyntz …
Education Week: “As students search for news online, it’s increasingly likely that they’ll come across the steady stream of disinformation on the web: conspiracy theories like QAnon, manipulated images and videos, false claims that the coronavirus is a hoax. These stories and statements are regularly debunked by fact-checkers and news outlets. But some students believe …
Hickman, Annalee, How to Teach Algorithms to Legal Research Students (September 1, 2020). 28 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing (forthcoming 2021), BYU Law Research Paper No. 20-30, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3731127 “This Article calls for legal research professors to include in their curriculum the role of algorithms in electronic legal research. It also includes …
This guide was prepared by the Center for Public Interest Communications at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in partnership with Purpose and the United Nations Verified initiative. “Principles for building trust – The factors that lead people to make choices to take vaccines are nuanced and affected by how they see …
Pew Report – “Yet there is ambivalence in many publics over developments in AI, workplace automation, food science – As publics around the world look to scientists and the research and development process to bring new treatments and preventive strategies for the novel coronavirus, a new international survey finds scientists and their research are widely …
Global News – “As the COVID-19 pandemic carries on with no promised end in sight, paired with the incoming winter conditions in southern Alberta, individuals may be feeling negative mental impacts. According to Dr. Robin Bright with the University of Lethbridge, outlets such as reading a novel could boost one’s emotional well-being. “Reading for pleasure …
