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Repeal of Racial Discrimination Protection Section 18C

Under the new proposed racial vilification laws, people can perpetuate hate speech with impunity, while minority groups are conversely labelled anti-democratic for pointing out discrimination.

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Employees Are Your Social Media Champions

A Gallup poll finds that 81% of engaged workers are more likely to give their employer’s products and services a positive recommendation on social media in comparison to only 18% of actively disengaged workers.

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Learn to Fail, Teach Trust

“In a fear-based, failure-averse culture, people will consciously or unconsciously avoid risk. They will seek instead to repeat something safe that’s been good enough in the past. Their work will be derivative, not innovative. But if you can foster a positive understanding of failure, the opposite will happen…. We must think of the cost of failure as an investment in the future.”

– Ed Catmull, Pixar Co-founder.

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Social Sciences Up to the Task of New Technologies

Sociologist Duncan Watts on why social science is important in technology and in broader areas of social policy.

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Large-scale social problems

Quote of the week, from computational sociologist, Duncan Watts:

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