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Social automation and APIs

Lauren McCarthy edited this page Apr 27, 2015 · 36 revisions

Intro

Current Events: Hacking street harassment

Hollaback!, aimed at ending street harassment, releases a video showing a woman walking through NYC for 10 hours, receiving hundreds of examples of unwelcome attention. 6 million views in 24 hours, many articles, tweets, comments responding to the video. Many men calling the attention appropriate, some people saying it feeds off class+race anxiety. The issue is universal, a similar hack in Egypt shows, and both videos capture something that resonates with most women, but can be hard to explain to men.

Also see Eddie Murphy on his own undercover mission.

Creatively (mis)usings APIs and automation

Tools

MTurk Farm and discussion

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