What we're learning about this month: Social Media
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How are you using your social media?
In this podcast, Nepor and Janine have a chat about using social media as a news outlet, its role in activism, cancel culture and more.
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The Complex Problem of Social Media
23 December 2020
3 mins
What you'll learn
In 2017, researchers coined the term “eco-anxiety” in response to the rise in severe anxiety related to our relationship with the environment. Issues surrounding big data, data protection and privacy may lead to a similar anxiety disorder evolving, and eventually being established, in the near future.
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Social Media Reading List: Data, Mis/disinformation, and Policy & Regulation
09 December 2020
15 mins
What you'll learn
Social media is a huge topic. There are infinite articles, videos, and other discussion on the subject - and it can be difficult to know where to start. We've rounded up some great introductory reading to help you get acquainted with such a broad and fast moving conversation.
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How are you using your social media?
12 November 2020
15 mins
What you'll learn
In this podcast, Nepor and Janine have a chat about using social media as a news outlet, its role in activism, cancel culture and more.
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#Social media
The LIS x Jacobs Challenge: Winners Announced!
28 October 2020
5 mins
What you'll learn
Find out more about the winners of the LIS x Jacobs Challenge: Reinvent your High Street
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Intergenerational Justice
26 October 2020
3 mins
What you'll learn
A few months ago, I was reading Avner De-Shalit’s Why Posterity Matters: Environmental Policies and Future Generations.As the title suggests, it’s about intergenerational justice - the moral obligations we have, as people living today, to future generations. The specific question he tackles is: do we have a moral obligation to preserve the environment for future people?
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What is biodiversity?
09 October 2020
2 mins
What you'll learn
This is a short introductory video to biodiversity. The term 'biological diversity 'was used first by wildlife scientist and conservationist Raymond F. Dasmann in 1968, where he advocated conservation. And the term 'biodiversity' first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist E. O. Wilson used it as a title.
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The challenge of intensive farming
09 October 2020
4 mins
What you'll learn
Some of the Explore ID students took a look into intensive farming and its effect on biodiversity.
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#Interdisciplinary theory
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#Biodiversity
The impacts of spillover on biodiversity: An interdisciplinary learning journey
09 October 2020
3 mins
What you'll learn
Through June and July this year, I participated in the online learning experience ‘Explore ID: COVID-19, Complex Problems, and Interdisciplinarity’. This course delivered by LIS brought together 53 students from around the world, applying an interdisciplinary approach to learn about and respond to some of the challenges the world faces due to the pandemic.
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Collaborative research for sustainability: An inside-out manisfesto
09 October 2020
2 mins
What you'll learn
Venturing outside our comfort zone we recognise that if we ever want to promote ‘sustainable development’ we must first learn how to sustain and develop our listening skills, and our ability to participate in true dialogues.
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