The following is a digestion of the research paper "May We Have Your Attention Please? Human-Rights NGOs and the Problem of Global Communication" by A. Trevor Thrall, Dominik Stecula, and Diana Sweet (see link). I often find academic papers way of communicating over-complicated, so I have written a little series...
I have a particular interest in the interplay between political science and artificial intelligence. My focus is less on safety - more on implementation/use-case. I have especially focused on education and decision-making more broad and in the context of the Global South (ex Khan Academy use of AI for personal...
The following is a digestion of the research paper "May We Have Your Attention Please? Human-Rights NGOs and the Problem of Global Communication" by A. Trevor Thrall, Dominik Stecula, and Diana Sweet (see link).
I often find academic papers way of communicating over-complicated, so I have written a little series where I digest the key points of papers that I have recently read.
In short this paper finds that: The argument that social media has opened the doors for small NGOs is a misconception (in the sense that their large-scale empirical findings do not support that social media have made it easier for smaller NGOs to reach an audience.
This paper is worth a read... (read 512 more words →)
I have a particular interest in the interplay between political science and artificial intelligence. My focus is less on safety - more on implementation/use-case. I have especially focused on education and decision-making more broad and in the context of the Global South (ex Khan Academy use of AI for personal tutoring), but I am open for any inputs and ideas as I am in a very early phase (I begin in January).
The idea is not to be blinded by quick or conventional ideas, but to gain an understanding on WHY a certain focus could be impactful - and use this unique opportunity to dive-in to a topic as a first step towards an impactful "career" further on.
Any inputs are welcome :-)
Any more thoughts about the implementation of tutur-gpt? I have watched some interviews about Khanamigo and the ideas of how it can have an impact for student in ex countries with fewer resources - do you know what barriers there are in this process?
Putting the paper in perspective to other HR studies:
The study of Thrall et al talks into a larger literature on the effect of NGOs' communication and media attention. In this context, Hafner-Burton[1] for example argues that when an NGO reports human rights violations, it is more likely to be picked up by media magazines if it comes from certain regions rather than others. For this reason some, often populous and poorer countries, remain systematically under-reported. Via communication through social media, this might be amplified, as posts of media magazines have larger budgets amplifying their appearance. Furthermore Hafner-Burton points out that the news media are likely to sensationalise and exaggerate reports of NGOs. This... (read more)