New and emerging technology for adult social care – the example of home sensors with artificial intelligence (AI) technology by Glasby Jon, Litchfield Ian, Parkinson Sarah, Hocking Lucy, Tanner Denise, Roe Bridget, Bousfield Jennifer

“…In addition, careful consideration is needed in gathering informed consent from people who draw on care and support, especially where people have cognitive impairments (who, ironically, might be the very group that were intended to benefit the most from digital technology). …”
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Ethical Concerns of School Closures for Low-Income School Aged Children by Shami-Iyabo Mitchell

“…AT&T Communications, an internet service provider, created a COVID-19 response deal for low-income households where participants pay ten dollars a month for internet access. However, ironically, the quickest and most effective way to apply is online. …”
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Black Noise, White Ears: Resilience, Rap, and the Killing of Jordan Davis by William Cheng

“…Past and present, these racist fantasies of black painlessness have resonated with what Alexander Weheliye terms the “pernicious logics of racialization,” referring to a “conglomerate of sociopolitical relations that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans” (2014, 3).[12] To Weheliye’s taxonomy, we should add the fantastical category of black superhumans—resilient bodies ironically relegated to dehumanized status. Certainly, being bulletproof, like Marvel superhero Luke Cage, could be the devout wish of black people who face police and precarity. …”
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Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: Creating Public Sentiment

“…Finally, McElwee and McDaniel assert that racial and identity attitudes have further displaced class as the central battleground of American politics. This, ironically, comes at a time when polling data showed that for the first time in our national history, whites and people of color were moving toward greater consensus about the need to effectively address race relations in this country. …”
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