This chapter focuses on sexuality and HIV risk in gay men. First, the biology of HIV risk is discussed with a focus on the physiological factors that can increase one’s susceptibility to infection. Second, the social psychological underpinnings of behaviours that can increase gay men’s risk ...
If we plan to teach our kids how to do that, we need to understand – and model – the skills required to assess contradictory information, process it and produce opinions. That’s especially important on social media, which have effectively become each of our own individual publishing platform...
In a YouTube video entitled ‘Suicide Candy’ a poster named Sir Sebastian displays a bag of White Rabbit Creamy Candy and declares dramatically: I’ll be the first one to admit I’ve eaten a lot of weird candy treats in my day. Scorpion lollypops. Mexican maggots. But never, NEVER, h...
The Risks of Social Media: Self-Inflicted Reputation Damage Posted onApril 23, 2010byJared Wade When we talk about social media and reputation damage, there are two basic types: (1) Damage that is self-inflicted, and (2) damage that comes externally from others. We will discuss type two ...
It is so very very heavily spun to benefit this political agenda and the interests of men by actively suppressing unwanted information. The IOC seem as another poster said on another thread today 'as shady as fuck' by this point. The BBC are no better. The BBC certainly should ...
In this way, serious games and simulations have a potential to enhance the process of remembering information, as recent studies have found connections between the excitement we feel entering a new social situation and the cognitive process of memory foundation. According to the study led at the ...
Social media are getting more and more ingrained into everybody’s lives. With people’s more substantial presence on social media, threat actors exploit the platforms and the information that people share there to deploy and execute various types of attacks. This paper focuses on the Norwegian ...
social amplification of risk framework12, information about a risk is transmitted from one station to the next in a communication chain. At each station (which can be an individual, media outlet, or an institution), the signal of the risk may be amplified or attenuated. In the current study...
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With regards to FB and other Social media – I was on, deactivated my account (at which point a friend asked me: why did you de-friend me?), then reactivated when I realized while people can get in touch with me in other ways a lot of times they’d rather use facebook (and list...