NEW RESOURCES
Northeastern University: To save Cherokee language, a digital tool shares tales of Standing Rock and Big Snake with the next generation. "Housed at Northeastern, Cherokees Writing the Keetoowah Way, a potentially life-changing digital resource, aims to help ensure the Cherokee language persists. CWKW, a product of Northeastern's Digital Archive of American Indian Languages Preservation and Perseverance, brings to life historic Cherokee documents––from prison letters to myths––by translating them into English and integrating them into Cherokee language lessons that can be used by speakers of any skill level."
State of Montana: Digitized Haynes Photographs Provide World-Wide Access. "The Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives staff are wrapping up their largest digitization project to date with the well-known photographs by F. Jay Haynes. Haynes' work is one of the foundational collections of the MTHS Photo Archives. Since the early 1980s, more than 6,000 original glass negatives (and associated reference prints) have been available to in-person researchers in Helena."
EVENTS
Furman University: Summer institute 'Reconstructing the Black Archive' aims to create a more complete picture of history. "Twenty-four scholars from across the country will spend three weeks in South Carolina, learning how to teach and tell a more complete picture of American history, thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 'Reconstructing the Black Archive,' a summer institute run by Furman University and Clemson University, will send the scholars, most of whom teach undergraduate students, into churches, historical associations, museums and other sources to learn to recover missing, often intentionally buried, histories."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Journal: Google In Hot Water: Billions At Stake As YouTube Ads Found To Violate Terms Of Service. "New findings reported by The Wall Street Journal reveal that approximately 80% of the ads YouTube serves across the web have breached its own terms of service, making them subject to refunds. This could cost Google billions of dollars, adding to the company's existing troubles, such as a growing discontent with search results and two ongoing antitrust lawsuits."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
CNN: Shein sent American influencers to China. Social media users are furious. "A group of American fashion influencers and creators has received online backlash after they visited a model factory in China as part of a tour sponsored by Shein, an internet shopping giant, and posted glowing reviews."
The Verge: Google has reportedly killed its Project Iris augmented reality glasses. "Last January, we revealed Google was building an AR headset, too — 'Project Iris' would be the company's bet against the then-yet-to-be-announced headgear from Meta and Apple. But now that its rivals have been revealed, Google is reportedly pulling the plug on glasses-shaped AR: Insider is reporting that Google has shelved its plans for Project Iris, citing three people 'familiar with the matter.'"
CNBC: Google cuts jobs at Waze as it continues to merge mapping products. "In an email to employees on Tuesday, Chris Phillips, who oversees Google's maps division called Geo, said the company is shifting its Waze strategy to include Google ads rather than using a separate ads system. That move will result in layoffs, according to the email, which was viewed by CNBC."
SECURITY & LEGAL
New York Times: After Montana Banned TikTok, Users Sued. TikTok Is Footing Their Bill.. "When five TikTok creators in Montana filed a lawsuit last month, saying the state's new ban of the app violated their First Amendment rights and far outstripped the government's legal authority, it appeared to be a grass-roots effort. One relevant fact that the creators and TikTok didn't mention: The company is financing their case."
New Hampshire Department of Justice: Investigators Urge Granite Staters to Share Social Media Impacts . "Attorney General John M. Formella announces that starting today the New Hampshire Department of Justice is actively working to solicit feedback from families here in the Granite State as part of a national investigation into the impacts of social media."
CTV News: Rodriguez says newsrooms will be supported should Meta, Google block news. "Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said he remains hopeful digital giants will not make good on their threat to block access to Canadian news on their platforms, but if they do then the Liberal government will ensure newsrooms have the resources they need to continue their work."
RESEARCH & OPINION
Phys.org: Even loyal customers distance themselves after socially unacceptable mentions of the brand on social media. "The study finds that when consumers observe socially unacceptable brand mentions, such as profanity-laden tweets, they become motivated to distance themselves from the brand. This motivation to distance manifests on social media in heightened disengagement intentions (i.e., a desire to reduce posting) and even unfollowing the brand on social media."
Tech Xplore: Experts encourage proactive use of ChatGPT with new ethical standards. "The respondents emphasize that the positive effects on scientific practice clearly outweigh the negative ones. At the same time, they stress the urgent task of science and politics to actively combat possible disinformation by LLMs in order to preserve the credibility of scientific research. They therefore call for proactive regulation, transparency and new ethical standards in the use of generative AI." Good morning, Internet...
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