ChatGPT – Authenticity in the Digital Age

https://earth.org/environmental-impact-chatgpt

https://aeon.co/essays/is-ai-our-salvation-our-undoing-or-just-more-of-the-same

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/01/05/how-will-ai-disrupt-higher-education-2024

https://suleimanhayek.medium.com/authenticity-killer-how-chatgpt-is-killing-creativity-in-writing-and-storytelling-and-the-fading-13f1d10eef39

2024/25 Winter: Authenticity
2024/25 Winter: Authenticity
ChatGPT - Authenticity in the Digital Age
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Radical Honesty – The Promises and Pitfalls of Blunt Authenticity

How honest is too honest? In this podcast, Sevval and Lottie dive into the communication concept of Radical Honesty: how it works, its promises and pitfalls, and if it fosters constructive communication.

Sources:
Blanton, Brad. Radical honesty: How to transform your life by telling the truth. Dell, 1996.
‘How Many Thoughts Do You Have Per Day? And Other FAQs’. Healthline, 28 Feb. 2022, https://www.healthline.com/health/how-many-thoughts-per-day.
Radical Honesty. https://www.radicalhonesty.com/. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

2024/25 Winter: Authenticity
2024/25 Winter: Authenticity
Radical Honesty - The Promises and Pitfalls of Blunt Authenticity
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Dialectical Relationships: How Accents Shape our Connections

When we speak to each other there are things we communicate consciously and unconsciously. However, when we form connections through language what matters is not only what we speak about, but how we speak.

2023/24 Winter: Connection
2023/24 Winter: Connection
Dialectical Relationships: How Accents Shape our Connections
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Losing Connection

A “short” story about how technology, when paired with tunnel vision and self-importance, stands in the way of human connection. Also, something about artificial intelligence, I guess. Oh, and there’s a dog in it. Every media and technology used for this project is mentioned in the audio recording.

2024 Summer Connection
2024 Summer Connection
Losing Connection
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(Dis-) Connection, Culture and Identity

Culture is most often seen as a means to connect

As first-, second- and third-generation migrants, we observe and understand culture and identity very differently. In this podcast we want to share our experiences with you and give you insights into how culture can also create a disconnection.

Cover edited from: cultural_disconnect.jpg (561×283) (pointofview.net)

2024 Summer Connection
2024 Summer Connection
(Dis-) Connection, Culture and Identity
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Neurodivergence and the impact of connection in online fandom spaces

In this podcast Michelle and Madeleine are going to talk about different aspects of neurodivergence and how living in our society as a neurodivergent person can negatively affect inter-human connections, even making neurodivergent people more vulnerable to falling victim to abuse.

Online fandom spaces can offer a safespace for all of those people who can otherwise feel alienated in real life social interactions, offering the chance to create meaningful relationships and connections, through shared struggles and interests.

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Neurodivergence and the impact of connection in online fandom spaces
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Shared experiences of womenhood

What connects women from all over the world with each other? Does being a woman feel different in different cultures and societies? And what are the experiences most women share despite their background? In this podcast, Charlotte, Julie and Johanna are talking about experiences and challenges that women across different cultures and backgrounds share and achievements they made through the connection of womenhood.

Sources:

United Nations of Human Rights (2023, 23. January) “The world is failing 130 million girls denied education: UN experts”; https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/01/world-failing-130-million-girls-denied-education-un-experts

Unicef “Girl’s education”, https://www.unicef.org/education/girls-education

Unesco (2023, 13. January) “Key data on girls and women’s right to education”, https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/key-data-girls-and-womens-right-education

World Bank Group “Girl’s Education”, https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/girlseducation

Kerri Lee Alexander “Malala Yousafzai”, National Women’s History Museum, https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/malala-yousafzai

Pfündel, Katrin; Stichs, Anja; Tanis, Kerstin “Executive Summary of the study “Muslim Life in Germany 2020″” Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge Forschungszentrum Migration, Integration und Asyl 90461 Nürnberg, 2021

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Egypt. (2020, 28. October). Human Rights Watch. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/13/human-rights-watch-submission-committee-elimination-discrimination-against-women

Lorde, A. (n. d.). I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. Retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/383017-i-am-not-free-while-any-woman-is-unfree-even

Oxfamde. (n. d.). Unbezahlte Hausarbeit, Pflege und Fürsorge. Oxfam Deutschland. https://www.oxfam.de/unsere-arbeit/themen/care-arbeit

World Health Organization: WHO. (2024, 25. March). Violence against women. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-against-women

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Shared experiences of womenhood
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“Real enough?” – Online relationships in the digital age

Thanks to the capabilities of modern communication apps and social media, digital-only relationships have become more and more common in recent years, especially among younger people. Connecting to people you get along with and who share your own interests as easily as one can do nowadays is a wondrous thing – but it is not without its problems. In this episode, Lennart and Colin discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital relationships and try to offer some advice on how to make them last.

© of images used for cover: Yan Krukau and Tima Miroshnichenko @ https://www.pexels.com

2024 Summer Connection
2024 Summer Connection
"Real enough?" - Online relationships in the digital age
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Connections – Women Friendships

Join us today as we explore what makes women friendships so special, and how the internet plays an integral part in upholding our long-distance friendship.

2024 Summer Connection
2024 Summer Connection
Connections - Women Friendships
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