Digital Society is the seminar group for GSAPS students with a specific academic interest in telecom
Digital Society is the seminar group for GSAPS students with a specific academic interest in telecommunications and beyond. We discuss our research progress, academic activities - such as conferences and study visits, as well as important industry news; after all, the world of telecom is a rapidly changing one!
13/11/2020
A glimpse into the latest developments regarding AI, its perspectives, and threats that it poses.
Do you agree that AI is an existential threat to humanity or is your opinion thereon is more optimistic?
Is AI finally closing in on human intelligence? GPT-3 has been hailed as an artificial intelligence breakthrough. John Thornhill tries it out and assesses the rewards — and the risks
23/01/2020
https://www.comsoc.org/publications/ctn/nine-communications-technology-trends-2020
Nine Communications Technology Trends for 2020 | IEEE Communications Society Nine Communications Technology Trends for 2020
18/12/2019
Fake news in Finland.
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?
10/12/2019
https://www.comsoc.org/publications/ctn/can-wireless-technology-alone-blur-digital-divide
Can Wireless Technology Alone Blur the Digital Divide? | IEEE Communications Society This month’s article explores the opportunities and challenges of rural connectivity in the United Kingdom.
25/11/2019
Freedom on the Net 2018 The internet is growing less free around the world, and democracy itself is withering under its influence.
25/11/2019
Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
09/10/2019
Defining a historic football team: Using Network Science to analyze Guardiola’s F.C. Barcelona The application of Network Science to social systems has introduced new methodologies to analyze classical problems such as the emergence of epidemics, the arousal of cooperation between individuals or the propagation of information along social networks. More recently, the organization of football....
27/09/2019
Strategy of limiting message forwarding to prevent fakes and hoaxes from spreading.
Limiting message forwarding on WhatsApp helped slow disinformation In January, WhatsApp limited how often messages can be forwarded—to only five groups instead of 256—in an attempt to slow the spread of disinformation.
31/07/2019
Fake news war divides, confuses in Hong Kong Chinese tanks at the border? False. Photo of a protester biting off a policeman's finger? Misleading. In polarised Hong Kong, a fake news fight for public opinion has become as crucial a battleground as the city streets.
23/08/2019