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“#Watch yourself: the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest” Credit: Shutterstock Retailers have tried many overt tactics to limit theft, such as signs that display images of CCTV cameras, threats to prosecute offenders, bag checks, checkout weighing plates and electronic security gates. These tactics are extremely costly and have failed to stamp out retail…
“#New insights on the role of trade unions in struggles for rights” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Trade unions are crucial in advancing workers’ rights, but it is unhelpful to consider their leaders as representatives of the working class as a whole when analysing labour relations and government policies, a new paper from the University of…
“#High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach” Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has filled social media feeds. Meanwhile, police surveillance of protesters has remained largely out of sight. Local, state and federal law enforcement organizations…
“#Steering new mobility in the right direction” Multimodal Street with Bicyclists and Curbside Planters .Credit: Cait McCusker Advances in transportation technology—e-scooters and bike share, Lyft & Uber, and autonomous vehicles—are beginning to have profound impacts on cities. New mobility is changing not only how we travel, but also urban form and development itself. In the…
“#COVID-19: Relationship between social media use and prejudice against Chinese Americans” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that originated in China has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives in the United States, while a different sort of pandemic is spreading online against Asian Americans, particularly of Chinese descent. A study published in Frontiers in…
“#Place doesn’t trump race as predictor of incarceration” For black Americans—particularly men—growing up in better neighborhoods doesn’t diminish the likelihood of going to prison nearly as much as it does for whites or Latinos, new Cornell research shows. “If you’re a black male in America, it doesn’t matter much if you come from a good…
“#Opposition to sexual- and gender-minority rights linked to support for Christian dominance” A new study finds that political and Christian conservatives and others who support Christian dominance in the U.S. also tend to endorse restricting the rights of sexual and gender minorities. Credit: Michael B. Vincent ,Many Christian and political conservatives in the U.S. support…
“#Are peaceful protests more effective than violent ones?” Credit: CC0 Public Domain As unrest erupts across the world after the killing of a Black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer, even some peaceful protests have descended into chaos, calling into question the efficacy of violence when it comes to spurring social change. “There’s…
“#Study shows contagions could be catalysts for mass migration” Pandemics and civil unrest often lead to mass migration, both temporarily and permanently. Credit: Pixabay. Could the COVID-19 pandemic spell the end of globalisation and migration? Not according to new epidemic research published in Scientific Reports, by a group of University of Sydney pandemic modelers led…
“#Local news volume does not increase pro-social behaviors during COVID-19” Credit: CC0 Public Domain During this pandemic, there are countless voices urging Americans to engage in the kind of civic behaviors that keep us all safe, like social distancing and frequent hand washing. These voices come at the national, state, and local level. But which…