🎓 Webinar: Video Games as a Violence Prevention Tool
In this webinar, the founder and executive director of the ngo Jennifer Ann's Group will discuss how video games can be utilized to teach consent, healthy relationships, and resilience.
Join us to hear about this organization’s mission and work, and how these strategies can be used for violence prevention work with youth.
📆 Oct 19th 10:30AM-12PMPST / 1:30-3PM EST
Free and open to everyone! ASL interpreters will be present.
📚 Biofeedback-Based Videogames: Fostering Emotion Regulation at a Diverse Community Summer Camp
📚 Iterative Design, Feasibility, and Preliminary Efficacy Testing for the Development of a Cooperative Card Game Intervention to Reduce Loneliness and Foster Social Connection
📚 Cognitive Behavioral Immersion for Substance Use Disorders: A Feasibility and Pilot Study of a Peer-Based Coaching Program in the Metaverse
📚 Effect of Exergaming on Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Strength and Endurance Muscle in Cancer Patients: A Randomized Crossover Trial
Join OVC Director Kristina Rose for October’s From the Director’s Desk Call
During this month’s 'From the Director’s Desk' briefing, OVC Director Kristina Rose anticipates discussing Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, funding awards, takeaways from recent travels, the status of the Crime Victims Fund, and more.
📆 The call is scheduled for Thursday, October 12, 2023, at 3:00 p.m., eastern time.
Subsequent calls will take place the second Thursday of each month at 3:00 p.m., eastern time.
While participants will not be able to ask questions during the call, we encourage the crime victims field to email any questions to [email protected].
Here is an interesting piece about some possible impacts that AI might have on online communities.
Shown here is one that I feel has been a problem for many years:
"... everything new posted online is created by a machine or by someone looking to turn a profit."
Although I do occasionally find other voices online, big social media has been very effective in silencing too many of them. Their algorithms-tuned-for-profit and use of dark patterns has made it increasingly difficult to hear the helpful voices over the ugliness and nonsense.
And we've allowed them to improperly use Section 230 as a shield to protect them from responsibility for the harms they have knowingly created.
Generally, since there is no duty to host all voices, I don't thinknthere will be a solution to this within the constraints of 1A. Being able to be selective and even biased about removing people from one's service is generally 1A protected.
🤯 Law firm Morgan & Morgan convinces USPTO to revive '#LAW' trademark bid
"[Morgan & Morgan] said that the relevant public perceives #LAW as 'both a mnemonic / vanity telephone number ... and as the source of legal services and legal referral services provided by Morgan & Morgan.'"
⭐ This last article includes a quote from Chris Messina, the originator of hashtags for social media:
"... trademarks don’t belong on hashtags. Hashtags are a kind of conversational commons, and should be owned by no one but the crowd.”