by creator | Nov 26, 2020 | Recommended Reads
A Gap EmergesIn the mid-90s, as personal computer and internet access was becoming more available to many in the U.S., a correlation could be observed between access to technology and socioeconomic status. Scholars, policy makers, and advocacy groups referred to this...
by creator | Nov 26, 2020 | Recommended Reads
ICTC‘s trusted labour market research provides critical economic and labour market insights to inform innovative workforce and skills solutions, as well as practical policy advice, to drive the development of a more prosperous Canadian workforce and industry in a...
by creator | Nov 26, 2020 | Recommended Reads
Race Against the Machine is a non-fiction book from 2011 by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee about the interaction of digital technology, employment and organization. View Full Article # Back to Recommended...
by creator | Nov 26, 2020 | Recommended Reads
In early October 2016, Wikileaks posted a dump of 20,000 hacked emails from the Gmail account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. Users on an internet message board called 8chan/pol/—short for “politically incorrect”—imme-diately began combing...
by creator | Nov 26, 2020 | Recommended Reads
Study after study has found that partisan beliefs and bias shape what we believe is factually true. Now the Pew Research Center has released a new study that takes a step back. They wondered: How good are Americans at telling a factual statement from an opinion...
by creator | Nov 26, 2020 | Recommended Reads
With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes...
