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Quand le numérique permet de rapprocher les générations
(When "digital" brings generations closer together)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 10.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | gender, social media
Summary | The Professional Women's Network in Paris launched its first 'reverse mentoring digital' where young women between 25 and 35 have the opportunity of teaching 50-year old women the basics of IT and digital language, with a focus on the use of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Sur Facebook, la façon de s'exprimer des hommes et des femmes diffère
(On Facebook, men and women express themselves differently)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 2.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | A group of researchers analyzed 68000 Facebook posts to identify language/communication differences between men and women. Men tend to be "colder", to swear more, and to talk more about sports, politics and video games. Women tend to talk more about social relationships and to describe positive emotions.
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L'intelligence artificielle reproduit aussi le sexisme et le racisme des humains
(Artificial intelligence also reproduces human beings' sexism and racism)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, gender, research/study, threat
Summary | Gender stereotypes are reproduced in some artificial intelligence programs. Researchers at the University of Stanford show how machine learning can replicate people's biases. They based their research on a technology called GloVe, which is trained to look for common associations. The technology points to some problematic associations that illustrate sexism and racism. The fact that AI follows people's prejudices can have some serious consequences, so people are trying to find solutions against AI's biases.
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« Lol » est mort, vive le « haha » !
("Lol" is dead, long lives "haha"!)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 12.8.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | According to Facebook analysts, "lol" is dying out. In their study, they found out that only 1,9% of internet users use "lol" and 51,4% of them use "haha". Laughing emojis are used by 33,7% of internet users. "Lol" seems to be used by 30-year old men whereas emojis are mostly used by females under 20.
Image Description | Photograph of a dictionary page with a big LOL in the middle of the page.
Image Tags | dictionary
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