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• It’s that so many people are increasingly alarmed about the harm social media is doing.
• Some parents despair about how addiction to social media can capture their children as strongly as addiction to hard drugs.
• The other is that the very nature of social media allows that extremist poison to spray across the globe almost instantaneously.
• Social media companies are refusing to snuff out the social combustion on their platforms.
• Coleman says the eSafety Commissioner recommended a trial of “age assurance” technology, which could include social media in its scope.
• The government hopes the fuelling of concern about social media by recent events will help muster support for whatever new version of this legislation it produces.
• It involves core free speech issues, and the balance of risks is different from the harms caused by the worst aspects of social media.

Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• From this, more than half were dismissed after they claimed they could not be impartial.
• On day three, one of the selected jurors asked to stand down after she became concerned about her name becoming public.
• Lawyers for both the prosecution and defence will also ask additional questions of the prospective jurors.
• In some cases, Trump’s lawyers had even looked through old social media posts as grounds to exclude a juror.

How are jurors selected?

• There are normally about 35 to 40 prospective jurors.
• This process repeats until a group of about 14 (12 jurors and two alternative jurors) are selected.
• Prospective jurors who have been summoned to the court are either questioned by the judge or by the prosecution and defence lawyers.
• With jurors who favour guilty verdicts seeing prosecution evidence favourably and either distorting or ignoring the defence evidence – jurors who favour not guilty verdicts show the opposite pattern of results.
• Therefore, some jurors will not be dismissed for cause despite being biased because they know how to answer in an acceptable way.

Scotland and England and Wales

• In comparison, jurors in England and Wales and Scotland are selected to be summoned randomly from the electoral register.
• The court clerk (England and Wales) or clerk of court (Scotland) will then empanel (or select) the jury by randomly selecting names from a ballot.

Lee John Curley receives funding from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust

• The women’s Final Four garnered higher television ratings than the men’s Final Four.
• And more than 90,000 fans attended the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Pasadena, California.
• Many fans, journalists and scholars are wondering if this is the dawn of a new era of women’s sports, with more coverage, increased viewership, heightened interest and bigger investments continuing in the future.

The long eclipse of women’s sports

• We’re in the middle of collecting data for the eighth time, the results of which will be published in 2025.
• Hundreds of studies on the routine coverage of sports have similarly found that media coverage of women’s sports rarely exceeds 10% of total sports coverage.
• This is a recurring pattern across media platforms – print, TV, radio, social – in English-speaking countries.

Leapfrogging the gatekeepers

• Podcasts like “Hear Her Sports,” “The Gist of It,” “Tea with A & Phee” and “Attacking Third” directly appeal to women’s sports fans.
• They can simply directly engage with them on social media, producing and pushing content that bypasses traditional media gatekeepers.

Leveraging feminism

• But my colleague Dunja Antunovic and I observed an important shift in sports media starting in the mid-2010s: the mobilization of feminism and principles of equality to promote and sell women’s sports.
• In one chapter of our latest book, “Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women’s Sports,” we focus on how women’s sports leagues and teams, as well as their corporate sponsors, have used the imagery, language and slogans of feminism and social justice movements to sell merchandise and tickets.
• The video accompanying the campaign interspersed scenes of WNBA games with scenes from the 2017 Women’s March on Washington.

Being the change they want to see

• While corporations and leagues deserve credit for highlighting the value of women’s sports, it’s also important to acknowledge how female athletes themselves have been driving change.
• The activism of women athletes through the years has also created visibility for women’s sports.
• In March 2019, the U.S. women’s national team players sued the U.S. Soccer Federation for gender discrimination.
• Last year was the first year since the 1980s that the women’s tournament was broadcast on network television.

Cheryl Cooky has received funding and support from the Women's Sports Foundation. She consults on gender equality issues in sports and has partnered with Gatorade, Nike and Buick.

• Kontron wins a EUR 34 Mio.
• contract for a GSM-R system in the Czech Republic
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• Linz, March 13, 2024 – Kontron Transportation, a company of Kontron group won the public procurement for the construction of a GSM-R (Global System for Mobile Communication-Railways) system in the Czech Republic.
• This GSM-R system, which provides a wide range of voice and data services required for daily railway operations, is a further step towards modernising the railways in the Czech Republic.