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Trevor Noah Foundation partners with Microsoft to help youth in South Africa

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The Daily Show host Trevor Noah launches the Trevor Noah Foundation in partnership with Microsoft to help orphans and at-risk...

Social Media

Researchers use social media to detect at-risk youth for self-inflicted harm

Omar Elorfaly3 years ago

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Researchers utilize social media platforms like Instagram to better understand self-inflicted harm and its causes in at-risk youth, and how...

Mobile

Mobile developers are using code to help end youth homelessness

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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Developers are working to help end youth homelessness through open source applications and code to complete a survey on smartphones...

Mobile

Share a happy thought with O2 and help promote youth mental health

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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O2 Ireland wants you to share a happy thought on Twitter or Facebook to help promote young people’s mental health in Ireland. The telecommunications company has parntered with the Dublin-based charity Headstrong, @HeadstrongYMH work to raise awareness of mental health issues in young people who are at risk of suicide or self-harm.

Brains Byte Back

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

Randon Heim is the host of “Don’t worry, We’ll talk it out,” a podcast exploring the fundamental concepts that drive how we perceive the world. “The Psychology of a Riot,” “The Black Death: Coronavirus and Race Relations,” and “Ignorance is Bliss: How Anti-Intellectualism Ruined America,” are just a few examples of subjects Heim has covered on his show, but today he joins us to discuss Cancel Culture.

If you are unfamiliar with the term Cancel Culture… well, you are in the right place, but to give you a brief description now, Cancel Culture refers to the act of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies that have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive.

In this episode, we discuss the positive and negative use case of Cancel Culture, how innocent citizens have been impacted by this, and beloved historical figure who could have been impacted by Cancel Culture due to skeletons in their closets.

In addition to the above, since it is impossible to future proof what we say or post against the moral standard of tomorrow, we explore how society’s perception of past comments, pictures, or posts will evolve in time, and what it will take for us to find a healthy relationship with Cancel Culture.