Our communities have been gradually and systematically asphyxiated by the contamination caused by coal mining, our societies [have been] fractured," said Julio Gomez, president of Fecodemigua, the Federation of Communities Displaced by Mining in La Guajira, in London.
While Mr. McMullan mines the society scene and the older hipster crowd, Mr. McCarthy, who grew up in Brooklyn and wears a diamond stud in one ear, is a favorite with the hip-hop stars and the 20-something publicists who arrange most of the music industry events.
We visited camps for displaced people, mines, civil society organizations, and hospitals treating survivors of sexual violence.
Societies: In this region "société" is most commonly used in reference to a company (i.e. logging, mining), not a society, but I've gotten so accustomed to calling them sociétés that I find myself calling them societies even in English.
The FCM framework proved to be helpful in identifying and quantifying the factors interacting in the "mining-landscape-society" system and offered the ability to study the role and significance of central concepts in the overall system behaviour.
Some brief highights from the conference: Muki Hacklay discussed participation inequities in VGI: when you mine geoweb data, you are mining outliers, not society; there are biases in gender, education, age and enthusiasm.
There were also a few hospitals belonging to religious societies, mining companies, and doctors.
The first truly digital natives: Children growing up today are the first to be "datafied" from birth and are the "canary in the coal mine for wider society," says the report by the children's commissioner for England.
"In effect [children] are the "canary in the coal mine for wider society, encountering the risks before many adults become aware of them or are able to develop strategies to mitigate them," she warns.
The report quotes research led by Sonia Livingstone, who describes children as the "canary in the coal mine for wider society" - the first to encounter new technology and its risks before many adults are even aware of them.
