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3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

In An AI-Dominated World Why Improvisation Is The Future

Rich Pellegrin, University of Florida In his autobiography, Miles Davis complained that classical musicians were like robots. He spoke from experience – he’d studied classical music at Juilliard and recorded with classical musicians even after becoming a world-renowned jazz artist. As a music professor at the University of Florida, which is transforming itself into an “AI university,” I often think about Davis’ words, and the ways in which musicians have become more machinelike over the past century. At the same time, I see how machines have been getting better at mimicking human improvisation, in all aspects of life. I wonder what the limits of machine improvisation will be, and which human activities will survive the rise of intelligent machines. The rise of machine improvisation Mac...

Infrastructure That Has Long Been Devalued – Women-Dominated Child And Home Care Work Is Critical

10May

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LIFESTYLE

Infrastructure That Has Long Been Devalued – Women-Dominated Child And Home Care Work Is Critical

A fiery debate has erupted over the definition of “infrastructure.” Does it mean roads, broadband and other physical structures included in the traditional meaning of infrastructure? Or should it have a broader definition that includes other important parts of the economy, such as workers who care for children, older adults and people with disabilities? President Joe Biden prefers the latter meaning and wants to use nearly one-fifth of the US$2.25 trillion of spending in his jobs and infrastructure plan to expand and strengthen child care and home-based long-term care. As a sociologist who has studied the paid-care workforce for over 15 years, I know how critical it is to the U.S. economy – as the COVID-19 pandemic has made quite plain. The problem is, these workers have long been under...

Esports Teams Dominated By Men, At Colleges Nationwide

12Mar

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EDUCATION, SPORTS

Esports Teams Dominated By Men, At Colleges Nationwide

Although esports – competitive, organized video gaming – has exploded into a billion-dollar industry, women players are hard to find on esports teams at America’s colleges and universities. In the following Q&A, Lindsey Darvin, an assistant professor of sport management, shines light on the reasons. The Conversation, CC BY-ND 1. Why are college esports dominated by men? Women and girls experience many obstacles throughout esports environments – both in terms of participation and employment. These include the way they are subjected to gender-based harassmment from male esport players, toxic masculinity, stereotyping and prejudices, as I and colleagues wrote in a forthcoming article for the Sport Management Review. These circumstances have resulted in lower numbers of women and girls i...

The Time 100 Are Dominated By Graduates Of Elite Universities – Why And What It Means For The Rest Of Us

4Apr

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EDUCATION

The Time 100 Are Dominated By Graduates Of Elite Universities – Why And What It Means For The Rest Of Us

When Time magazine released its annual Time 100 list of the most influential people around the world in September, The Cornell Daily Sun – an independent newspaper run by students at Cornell University – wasted no time in trumpeting the fact that three of the school’s alumni had made the list. The three “Cornellians” were billionaire tech investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith, Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen and Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the U.S., who has become a household name since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Although it may be notable that three graduates from one of America’s top universities has made the Time 100, in some ways it is hardly surprising. As researchers who specialize in higher education and gifted students, we have analyzed the educatio...

Unemployment pushes more men to take on female-dominated jobs

8Jan

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Journalism

Unemployment pushes more men to take on female-dominated jobs

In the last few decades, many high-paying jobs that are mostly done by men – like manufacturing – have contracted or disappeared. At the same time, many jobs in fields dominated by women – like education and health care – have significantly increased. In fact, female-dominated jobs have some of the highest projected job and wage growth in the economy. We are sociologists interested in the following question: If jobs in female-dominated sectors represent the future, what will it take for men to take them? Who’s working where? Women have made significant progress entering male-dominated jobs – like finance, law and medicine – over the past several decades. However, men have made far less progress entering female-dominated jobs like those of teachers, nurses or human resource representativ...