{"id":7637,"date":"2024-07-18T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2024-07-23T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:46:39","slug":"clippings-july-28th-2024-tsp-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2024\/07\/18\/clippings-july-28th-2024-tsp-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings &#8211; July 18th, 2024 TSP Media Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-thisisengineering-3861969-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-thisisengineering-3861969-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-thisisengineering-3861969-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-thisisengineering-3861969-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-thisisengineering-3861969-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-thisisengineering-3861969-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-thisisengineering-3861969-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sherryturkle.mit.edu\/\">Sherry Turkle<\/a> (Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was interviewed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/07\/01\/1247296788\/the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-chatbot-relationships\">NPR\u2019s <em>Body Electric<\/em> <\/a>to discuss her latest research on people\u2019s experiences with generative AI chatbots. Turkle describes how some individuals she interviewed formed emotional or romantic connections to the chatbots. &#8220;What AI can offer is a space away from the friction of companionship and friendship,&#8221; Turkle said. &#8220;It offers the illusion of intimacy without the demands. And that is the particular challenge of this technology.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-eric-butler-145490410-10460330-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-eric-butler-145490410-10460330-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-eric-butler-145490410-10460330-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-eric-butler-145490410-10460330-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-eric-butler-145490410-10460330-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-eric-butler-145490410-10460330-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-eric-butler-145490410-10460330-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/08\/europe\/france-election-what-next-explainer-intl\/index.html\">France\u2019s recent parliamentary election<\/a>, the left-wing New Popular Front coalition won more seats than both the centrist Ensemble Alliance and far-right National Rally party (which was predicted to emerge with the most seats). <a href=\"https:\/\/cessp.cnrs.fr\/-DAHANI-Safia-834-\">Safia Dahani <\/a>(Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science) commented to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/11\/world\/europe\/france-far-right-bardella-national-rally.html?searchResultPosition=3\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> that \u201cat every election, racist, antisemitic, sexist or homophobic comments made by National Rally candidates\u201d raise suspicion among voters, despite the party\u2019s efforts to sanitize its image. However, as Dahani commented on <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/french-and-british-politics-experts-discuss-what-their-election-results-mean-for-the-right-podcast-234422\"><em>The Conversation Weekly<\/em><\/a>, the election was not a total defeat for the National Rally party: \u201cThey gained more seats than they had in 2022. They are the third force represented in the National Assembly \u2026 So it means that they are here and they are settling in to French political life.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4389641-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4389641-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4389641-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4389641-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4389641-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4389641-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4389641-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4389641-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/2332864\">Terry Shoemaker <\/a>(Associate Teaching Professor in Religious Studies at Arizona State University) wrote an article for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-the-olympic-games-are-a-civil-religious-ceremony-with-a-global-congregation-233605\"><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> applying sociologist Robert Bellah\u2019s concept of \u201ccivil religion\u201d to the Summer Olympics and describing how the Olympic Games provide a sacred arena to perform patriotism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-emrecan-2189696-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-emrecan-2189696-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-emrecan-2189696-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-emrecan-2189696-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-emrecan-2189696-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-emrecan-2189696-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2024\/07\/pexels-emrecan-2189696-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In a new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/soc\/people\/current-graduate-students\/sofiah.html\">Sofia Hiltner<\/a> (PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Michigan) found that there is little focus on climate change in leading sociology journals, conference sessions, faculty biographies and course listings in top-ranked U.S. sociology departments in the U.S. &#8220;This deficit threatens sociology&#8217;s relevance to human welfare,\u201d Hiltner said. \u201cIt also limits our understanding of the climate crisis as a social problem and our ability to imagine responses.\u201d This story was reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\"><em>Phys.Org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,85,14],"tags":[116790,116793,116800,116806,116807,116784,116780,116791,116789,116799,116781,116778,116795,116809,116782,116788,116787,116801,116792,3408,116783,116804,116785,116796,116794,116779,116808,116805,116802,116803,116786,116798,116797],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-antisemitic-comments","tag-centrist-ensemble-alliance","tag-civil-religion","tag-climate-change-focus","tag-climate-crisis-as-social-problem","tag-demands-of-intimacy","tag-emotional-connections","tag-far-right-national-rally","tag-france-parliamentary-election","tag-french-political-life","tag-friction-of-companionship","tag-generative-ai-chatbots","tag-homophobic-comments","tag-human-welfare","tag-illusion-of-intimacy","tag-new-popular-front","tag-npr-body-electric","tag-patriotism","tag-racist-comments","tag-robert-bellah","tag-romantic-connections","tag-sacred-arena","tag-safia-dahani","tag-sanitize-image","tag-sexist-comments","tag-sherry-turkle","tag-sociology-journals","tag-sociology-relevance","tag-sofia-hiltner","tag-summer-olympics","tag-technology-challenges","tag-terry-shoemaker","tag-the-conversation-weekly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}