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“With many companies extending their remote-work policies indefinitely, employers are increasingly exploring new ways to oversee their staff’s productivity. But this challenge is giving rise to solutions that may have disastrous consequences for individual privacy. In a study commissioned by ExpressVPN, in collaboration with Pollfish, 2,000 employers and 2,000 employees who work in a remote …
Hayashi, Andrew T., The Evolving Network of Legal Scholars (April 25, 2021). Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-25, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3833993 “The law professoriate is a network connected by scholarly interactions of various types, including co-authorship. I study the evolution of the …
TechCrunch: “Chrome, at least in its experimental Canary version on Android (and only for users in the U.S.), is getting an interesting update in the coming weeks that brings back RSS, the once-popular format for getting updates from all the sites you love in Google Reader and similar services. In Chrome, users will soon see …
ZDNet – “In the age of hybrid work that’s upon us, companies need to dramatically rethink how they approach their office space. As ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott told a group of analysts and reporters during the company’s Knowledge 2021 event, “Nobody wants to play office anymore.” For as long as they’ve existed, corporate office buildings have …
Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking: Being Corrected by Another User for Posting False Political News Increases Subsequent Sharing of Low Quality, Partisan, and Toxic Content in a Twitter Field Experiment – “A prominent approach to combating online misinformation is to debunk false content. Here we investigate downstream consequences of social corrections on users’ subsequent sharing …
Via LLRX – Review: A Short & Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research – Jerry Lawson highly recommends Ann Walsh Long’s new book, A Short & Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research. Long’s book offers good ideas about balancing quality, speed and expense, as well as a wealth of other insights on improving online legal …
A Tool for Food History Research – “The Sifter is a free website for searching and comparing authors, their works and the details of their works regarding food and related topics around the world and throughout history. Browse and search through thousands of historical cookbooks and manuscripts dating back to the Middle Ages! We have …
Vice – Facing lawsuits and legal trouble, archivists are working to save 77TB of freely available scientific data. It can be hard to access scientific articles, which are often hidden behind expensive paywalls. For 10 years, Sci-Hub, the “Pirate Bay of Science” has hosted scientific papers free for anyone who wanted them. But it hasn’t …
NPR – Find experts from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the media – the Diverse Sources Database.
Columbia Journalism Review: “Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s found on the Web can also be modified, moved, or entirely vanished. The fragility of the …
Pew – Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment: “People have challenged each other’s views for much of human history. But the internet – particularly social media – has changed how, when and where these kinds of interactions occur. The number of people who can go online and call out others for …
Data tracking in research: aggregation and use or sale of usage data by academic publishers – A briefing paper of the Committee on Scientific Library Services and Information Systems of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) 20 May 2021.”In recent years, digital data markets of various kinds have emerged which can be categorised as …
