Alexander Smbatyan is a tech investor and entrepreneur. He is cofounder at Intent.ai and chairman at the Emerge international conference. Below are excerpts from an article he published in Forbes. In today’s globalized economy and increasingly diverse societies, cultural sensitivity has evolved from a mere necessity for effective team management to a critical component for achieving business…
Category: Technology
Seven extreme accounts dominate X, formerly known as Twitter
What we found was extraordinary. A small group of seven accounts, many unknown a year ago, were racking up hundreds of millions of views each day, out-performing standard news accounts by an order of magnitude and exercising significant influence on the discourse around the war. X’s owner, Elon Musk, had interacted with or explicitly recommended…
Trolling and doxxing: Graduate students sharing their research online speak out about hate
An increasingly volatile online environment is affecting our society, including members of the academic community and research they pursue. Graduate students are especially vulnerable to online hate, because cultivating a visible social media presence is considered essential for mobilizing their research, gaining credibility and finding opportunities as they prepare to compete in an over-saturated job market. Our research has examined the…
An urgent need exists to investigate the cross-cultural differences in technology privacy attitudes and behaviors
While privacy regulation exists in almost every culture, the specific behavioral and psychological mechanisms that people use to regulate privacy boundaries are culturally unique. Since the 1960s, when privacy mostly concerned physical access to an individual’s surroundings and private space, researchers had found that people in different cultures are universally aware and capable of regulating…
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