fatherhood
How is Fatherhood Framed Online in Singapore?
Van, Tran Hien, Goyal, Abhay, Siddique, Muhammad, Cheung, Lam Yin, Parekh, Nimay, Huang, Jonathan Y, McCrickerd, Keri, Tandoc, Edson C Jr., Chung, Gerard, Kumar, Navin
The proliferation of discussion about fatherhood in Singapore attests to its significance, indicating the need for an exploration of how fatherhood is framed, aiding policy-making around fatherhood in Singapore. Sound and holistic policy around fatherhood in Singapore may reduce stigma and apprehension around being a parent, critical to improving the nation's flagging birth rate. We analyzed 15,705 articles and 56,221 posts to study how fatherhood is framed in Singapore across a range of online platforms (news outlets, parenting forums, Twitter). We used NLP techniques to understand these differences. While fatherhood was framed in a range of ways on the Singaporean online environment, it did not seem that fathers were framed as central to the Singaporean family unit. A strength of our work is how the different techniques we have applied validate each other.
AI-Generated Art Biased Against Fathers of Color?
My journey into the world of AI-generated art began two weeks before Thanksgiving. I sat down in front of my computer to experiment with Midjourney, an artificial intelligence program that creates images from text descriptions. I entered the command "/imagine" and a message from the Midjourney bot appeared: "There are endless possibilities โฆ" A young african american man wearing a white t-shirt, jeans and sneakers, is flying through the clouds and space as if in a dream. Midjourney generated four versions that the beloved painter and art instructor Bob Ross might have called "happy little accidents." In each, the clouds look like unruly cotton balls. The man has no discernible face.
Valve's Steam Deck brought PC gaming back into my life after fatherhood
Valve's Steam Deck is a great way to get PC games out of your office and on to your couch, back patio, or anywhere. As we said in our review, it's worth having around even if you just play it a few times a month for a couple hours at a time. But I wound up using mine a little differently: I play the Steam Deck several times a day for just a few minutes per session. And it's almost the only reason I play video games at all anymore. I'm no less interested in games than I used to be, but since becoming a father, I've found I have a lot less time.