Media & Technology debate motions

Human influence refers to the ability of AI systems to exert influence over humans by mimicking human features and behaviours. Examples of this include strategic human-like bargaining, persuasion, and emotional engagement.

Artificial Intelligence refers to computer systems that perform tasks which would normarlly require human intelligence, and such systems include, but are not limited to, chatbots, image generators, and various advanced automation systems. The rise of Artificial Intelligence refers to the widespread adoption and increasing use of AI technologies across society, such to education, healthcare, business, and entertainment. Socioeconomic (in)equality is normally measured through differences in income, wealth and living standards.

Personalized advertising is when companies track what you do online to choose exactly which ads you see. For example, if you spend the afternoon watching gaming videos or searching for shoes, websites will automatically start showing you ads for those exact items.

A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write a book, song, speech, or social media post for someone else. Once the work is finished, the ghostwriter is paid a fee but receives no public credit. Instead, the piece is published under the name of the famous celebrity, politician, musician, or influencer, making it look as though they wrote it themselves.

As AI technology advances there is a question of whether or not AI should be treated like people in society this includes designing machines that could act as friends or companions.

Government internet shutdowns refer to deliberate actions by authorities to restrict or completely cut off access to the internet or specific platforms within a region, typically during periods of unrest, protests, or perceived threats to public order.

"An economic bubble is a market phenomenon characterized by rapid, unsustainable surges in asset prices far exceeding their intrinsic value, driven by investor euphoria and speculation. Bubbles often form due to easy credit or over-optimism and typically end in a sharp decline in value, known as a ""crash"" or ""bursting,"" which can lead to broader financial crises. "

"""AI generated content is becoming popular in pop culture and the music industry because of the rise in AI recordings ( using apps like Suno and Aviva), AI regenerated music to change genres of original songs( e.g French artist Stromea's song papaoutai recreated from pop to Afro fusion & Nigeria song writer Fave changing her song """"INTENTIONS"""" from Afro pop to Afro choir because of the Ai generated version of the song being a choir version sounded better to her audience) and integration of such content in cultural moments Like Drake's 2024 Taylor freestyles diss track to Kendrick Lamar using AI generated voice of late hip hop icon Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg."""

New Media outlets are characterised by their relatively small size and focus on online distribution (e.g. podcasting, social media commentating and blog- style posting). Examples include Breitbart, Rebel News, Turning Point USA, Vox, Hasan Piker, The Daily Aus, etc. Traditional Media refers to established mastheads, which are generally larger in size and tend to distribute in a variety of mediums (e.g. in print, online and on social media). Examples include The New York Times, The Australian Financial Review, Fox News, Al Jazeera, the BBC, Chosun Ilbo, etc.

Internet vigilantism is the act of using the internet by ordinary individuals rather than the legal system to seek justice. This includes leaking information, publishing lists of perpetrators, and hacktivism.

AI romantic partners are human-like digital romantic partners powered by AI. They are used for user-tailored conversations and aim to replicate real life relationship experience.

In 2023, Canada passed the Online News Act. This is a bill initially implemented to enhance fairness for the monetization of news content on social media platforms by forcing social media companies to compensate news stories in-app. However, after failing to reach a deal with Meta and Google, all news was removed from social media platforms.

AI refers to Artificial Intelligence and in the status quo, there is no restriction regarding who can carry out research and development pertaining to AI.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a type of technology that allows computers to "think" like humans. While AI has created benefits such as faster information, helpful tools like translation apps, and better medical technology, it has also replaced workers, spread false information online, and even be used in dangerous weapons.

Currently, AI systems are being introduced experimentally in judicial systems in various jurisdictions, e.g. predictive algorithms to suggest sentencing or bail outcomes.

AI caretakers refer to artificially intelligent systems or robots designed to help care for vulnerable groups, such as children or the elderly. These technologies may assist with tasks like supervision, companionship, health monitoring, education, or daily routines.

"Beauty filters" are special effects on apps like Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat that change how someone looks. For example, by making their skin smoother, eyes bigger, or face slimmer. Banning beauty filters means people would not be allowed to use or post pictures and videos with these effects.

A personal mobile device is any personal device that someone can carry with them, such as (but not limited to) a mobile phone, tablet, or laptop.

Short-form content is a recent phenomenon that has seen increasing popularity with the rise of apps like TikTok, and refers to videos, posts, songs and other content that tends to be under one minute in length. Recently, this form of content has been promoted by social media platforms, for example, short- form videos may pop up on someone's YouTube front page more often.

Family influencer accounts are social media accounts (e.g., on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram) where parents regularly post content featuring their children. Monetization refers to earning money from this content through sponsorships, brand deals, ads, or direct fan contributions.

In music, musicians sign contracts with record labels who take a cut of all money made by the musician in exchange for providing advertising, distribution of music, musical equipment, coaches and other aspects of music production. Labels also control the direction of one's musical career (e.g., singing style, target audience, public appearances). Comparatively, independent artists have more control over the direction of their music and produce their music alone or with a small team.

Mental health services are special kinds of help from experts who support how we think, feel, and handle problems in everyday life.

Health and wellness influencers are individuals who use digital platforms (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, blogs, etc) to share content related to physical and mental well-being, diet, fitness, beauty, personal growth, and overall lifestyle choices.

Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, or other media, using generative models. Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics. Examples of generative AI include large language model chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard, text-to-image artificial intelligence art systems such as Midjourney, and DALL-E, and text-to-video artificial intelligence systems like Sora.

In 2038, Androids are almost indistinguishable from humans, they walk, talk, and operate like humans. They are used as cheap labor and are always at the disposal of human beings. Conner is an Android police investigator who hunts down rogue androids also called deviants. Deviants are sentient androids fighting against the exploitation of Androids. Markus is the leader of the Android revolution against humans. The androids are fighting for equal rights similar to those of human beings. Conner has the job of maintaining order by countering the Android uprising. Conner is in a position to shutdown the AI uprising by killing Markus.

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new and original content. In the status quo, it is being applied to the production of text, programming, images, and sound. Generative AI is currently unable to design architecture, pharmaceuticals, or conduct research.

AI companion bots are AI systems designed to interact with humans, providing support and companionship. In childcare, they can be used to assist with educational activities, offer emotional support, monitor safety, and help manage daily routines.

In this debate, Superheroes are individuals who fight for justice and fairness . There have been grassroot reports about these superheroes being involved in some unethical activities and to have accrued a lot of collateral damages during their battles though there are no verified sources or accounts until now. An investigative journalist just found out that these reports are true and there is a multibillion dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers up their secrets.

Block out 2024 is a social media movement driven by social media users uniting to block, unfollow, and boycott products, companies, media outlets, influencers and celebrities who align with undesirable ideologies or choose to remain silent on pressing societal issues i.e celebrities like Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, Haley Kalil and many others were targeted by the movement for their silence on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

*For the purposes of this debate, an internet guru is an individual, e.g. a blogger, vlogger, other types of content creator, who claims to be an expert in a field.

Data journalism is a type of journalism reflecting the increased role that numerical data has in the production and distribution of information in the digital era. It reflects the increased interaction between content producers (journalists) and several other fields such as design, computer science and statistics. On the flip side, more traditional forms of journalism are qualitative in approach, focusing more on interpretation and contextualisation.

Giant AI experiments include but are not limited to language learning models Like GPT-4. Other AI labs are currently also developing much more ambitious projects that are much larger than that of OpenAI (the creators of Dall E 2 and ChatGPT)

A community based, democratically run social media is one where users join specific social media platforms based on community or interest and members of a community determine their own policies and design in terms of algorithms, moderation, funding, and general functioning of the site for that platform.

Midjourney and Dall-E are examples of artificial intelligence programs that turn lines of text into art. Programs like Dall-E and Midjourney are built by scraping millions of images from the internet, and then training algorithms to recognise patterns and relationships between the input and images to generate new art.

You are a journalist who has recently uncovered secret, indisputable evidence that a long-thought-to-be-dead war criminal who was involved in atrocities in a significant conflict, is still alive today. However, you find further proof that they have now built a positive life around helping the new community in which he resides, where he assumes a completely new identity. You have knowledge that they may be executed if they were found, caught and extradited.

Intellectual Property Law (otherwise known as copyright law) protects the ability of an individual to own and profit from their own creativity and intellectual effort. For example, IP law often protects artists from having their profits stolen off them by someone else who might copy lyrics of their song. For the purposes of this motion, if someone were to generate art from artificial intelligence "in the style of Vincent Van Gogh", intellectual property of that art would like solely at the hands of Vincent Van Gough

Social Media refers to websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Examples of social media are TikTok, Facebook, Reddit, and more.

An AI non-proliferation treaty would involve governments mutually agreeing to cease developing artificial intelligence for military and espionage purposes

There is a norm in media that journalisms should provide a platform to all sides of contentious issues, for instance by interviewing supporters and opponents of a policy, and treating different perspectives on contentious issues as valid and worthy of receiving coverage.

in many jurisdictions, online platforms are largely granted immunity from civil liability (such as fines) for content posted by others on their platforms, as well as for removing or failing to remove said content with the exception of copyright claims

Advanced personal data is information relating to a person's identity. Examples include but are not limited to physiological, genetic, mental, etc

Satellite internet is a method of providing internet connection using low-orbit satellites rather than telecommunication grids. It also has the ability to circumvent local internet censorship. An example of this is Elon Musk's Starlink

Artificial intelligence means the simulation of advanced human intelligence processes by machines. Examples of artificial intelligence include facial recognition, self-driving cars, and robots that can act without needing to be controlled by a person.

Social media is an internet-based form of communication that allows users to converse and interact with each other virtually.

Social media is an internet-based form of communication that allows users to create web content and interact with each other. People who have large audiences of followers on their social media accounts are called social media influencers.

Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems that can perform a lot of activities including generation of artwork

Internet anonymity is the practice of not using one's real name and identity when interacting on the internet.

There exists a machine that, assuming both partners consent, tells you exactly when your romantic relationship will end. You cannot change the date once you know it.

From birth, individuals are implanted with a chip which has access to your thoughts, personality and preferences. The chip determines what is best for you based on this information e.g. romantic partner, your profession. At the age of 18 everyone is given one chance to remove the chip. If you remove it, you lose all the information it provided.

A multimedia franchise is a media franchise where installments exist in multiple forms of media either in books, comics, films, television shows, games, and toys and merchandise. They usually develop due to a popularization of a certain work which translates to its expansion to other forms of media

Henrietta Lacks died in 1951, aged 31, of an aggressive cervical cancer. Months earlier, doctors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, had taken samples of her cancerous cells while diagnosing and treating the disease. They gave some of that tissue to a researcher without Lacks's knowledge or consent. In the laboratory, her cells turned out to have an extraordinary capacity to survive and reproduce; they were, in essence, immortal. The researcher shared them widely with other scientists, and they became a workhorse of biological research. Today, work done with HeLa cells underpins much of modern medicine; they have been involved in key discoveries in many fields, including cancer, immunology and infectious disease. One of their most recent applications has been in research for vaccines against COVID-19. Lacks was a Black woman. The hospital where her cells were collected was one of only a few that provided medical care to Black people. None of the biotechnology or other companies that profited from her cells passed any money back to her family. For decades after her death, doctors and scientists repeatedly failed to ask her family for consent as they revealed Lacks's name publicly, gave her medical records to the media, and even published her cells' genome online.

For the purpose of this debate, "Nepenthes" is a technology which allows individuals to irreversibly erase all sadness and sorrow, associated with past and future memories. The technology does not erase memories themselves.

A new international accolade is proposed by the governments of the world called the 'Blue Shell Award'. Every year on the 31st of December, the wealthiest person alive is declared the 'Winner of Capitalism'. They get a badge that says 'good job', and then all of their wealth is donated to various charitable causes

Recently, there has been a rise in websites such as SliceThePie.com that allow individuals to invest in musicians or bands, as an alternative to record labels. Under this arrangement, an artist would allow investors to buy shares of the band, giving the band money to record and promote their music in exchange for the investor recieving a portion of the profits.

Colourblind casting is the practice of casting without considering the actor's ethnicity, skin color, body shape, sex and/or gender

Comedians like Dave Chapelle have recently drawn attention to the differences in the handling of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic in the USA, which largely affected its Black population, and the ongoing Opioid Crisis, which has impacted its working-class White population the most. While the killing of black youths was frequent during the epidemic, with the community being chastised by various politicians, the tone of the political dialogue on the Opioid Crisis has been far more sympathetic. Some commentators have warned that such comparisons might be harmful if they become popular, given the polarised political climate in the US.

The Fairness Doctrine is a policy that requires news media to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced

The " that girl" trend rose to popularity on TikTok last year. "That girl" gets up early, makes her bed, works out, and eats organic and healthy food. She fills out gratitude journals, reads every day, and studies hard. TikTok users share videos of them going about their "that girl" routines or sharing advice on how to achieve the lifestyle. The thinking behind the videos appears to be holding themselves accountable and inspiring other women to work towards their "best selves" and focusing on themselves to undergo a lifestyle transformation to be successful and happy. Similar trends for woman-identifying people include the "Girlboss trend".

Academic streaming refers to the practice of segregating students into classes based on their academic ability.

A patent is the granting of a property right by a sovereign authority to an inventor. This grant provides the inventor exclusive rights to the patented process, design, or invention for a designated period in exchange for a comprehensive disclosure of the invention.

You are a government scientist working in Area 51 and have made a shocking discovery: Birds aren't real. All of humanity is under constant surveillance. Every bird on earth is a sophisticated camera drone placed on earth by an advanced alien species somewhere outside the solar system.

"Securitization" is the process by which an issue is constructed in political discourse into a matter of national security. This can include a greater focus on military capacity, interstate competition, and threats to state security when forming policy on such issues.

A virtual assistant adjudicator (VAA), would be an adjudicator who would have access to a recording of a debate which they could view during the deliberation in order to verify tracking, or replay a specific small clip of the debate for the panel. The VAA would not have a vote in adjudication and would delete the recording immediately after the deliberation.

Within BP debating any fact claim cannot be instantly credited if simply asserted. Rather the judges act as "average informed voters." This means you must prove fact claims via structural reasons for it to be credited. For example, according to this a judge shouldn't credit the assertion "China is about to have a pension crisis" rather teams would have to say "China is about to have a pension problem because of an ageing population because of the one child policy leading to low birth rates over the past decades.

81% of parents reported that their children began to use regular Facebook accounts between the ages of 8 and 13

Recently there has been a trend of high-profile journalists, such as Glenn Greenwald (the founder of The Intercept), Matt Taibbi (formerly employed by Rolling Stone), and Matthew Yglesias (the co-founder of Vox) leaving traditional media outlets they were previously affiliated with in order to build their own platforms on Substack, a subscription-based website which hosts independent writers.

Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWs) are a special class of weapon systems that use sensor suites and computer algorithms to independently identify a target and employ an onboard weapon system to engage and destroy the target without manual human control of the system. LAWs may operate in the air, on land, on water, under water, or in space

Embedded journalism refers to the practice of placing journalists within and under the protection of one side's military during an armed conflict.

The beauty culture is defined as the styles, products, and people associated with beauty and the focus on physical appearance and aesthetics. An example of beauty culture is the attention focused on super models and the development of a stereotypical idea of beauty

The "splintering of the internet" refers to the trend in which regulations and barriers that separate how different parts of the world use the internet are becoming more widely adopted. Examples of this include China's Great Firewall, Australia's unique media ownership regulations, the EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), and Russia's Sovereign Internet Law.

A pro-rata model of compensation divides the total pool of revenue the platform earns to artists and their respective companies on the basis of their share of all listeners' plays. Under this model, even if you personally do not listen to popular artists, your money is still going to them. A user-centric model of compensation detects what genres and types of artists a specific user listens to, and distributes money generated from them based only on this. This means that money from a person who listens predominantly to hiphop will go towards hiphop artists, and not necessarily to the most popular artists with the largest share of streams at the moment.

AI processes datasets of human facial and verbal cues and uses it to develop an algorithm so that they automatically mimic what we perceive as appropriate emotional responses.

DoxGaming is a medium sized video game company in the very early stages of developing two new online competitive games called 'Doxtastic 2077' and 'Doxbot 420'. They are currently deciding which game they will continue production on and which game they will halt production on. In 'DoxBot 420', the game's mechanics would prioritise a very high degree of skill expression (like Starcraft, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or Chess). In games of this nature, the skill of a player or team of players has a very high degree of influence on the outcome of the game. In 'DoxTastic 2077', the game's mechanics would prioritise unexpected outcomes and randomness (like Mario Kart, Fall Guys or Uno). In games of this nature, the skill of a player or team of players has much less influence on the outcome of the game.

Metadata is data that provides information about other data. For example, if the actual content of a message is data, metadata about the message is when, where, amongst whom, and how the message was sent. It is generally impossible to prevent the collection of metadata without opting out from using services that collect them. Oftentimes, you are required to consent to the collection of your metadata to access sources on the internet, such as Google, Facebook, etc.

Bundled music is music (in the form of album sales and streams on Spotify Youtube) that is often added on with or under the price of an added merchandise, such as selling an album with a ticket to a concert or a t-shirt. In July of 2020, Billboard decided to eliminate the practice of counting albums bundled with merchandise and concert tickets on its album and song charts altogether, Under these new rules, albums that are attached to a ticket or merchandise bundle will no longer count for the ranking. The Billboards are a popular platform that tallies the total album sales and releases a weekly rank that is crucial for the popularity for the artist and revenue generation.

The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank, is a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The main goal of the NBD is to promote infrastructure and sustainable development. The NBD does not require changes in the public policy of the recipient of the loan.

MYRAGE is an advanced form of virtual reality technology, that allows individuals to have absolute control over events, people and surroundings in a virtual world. Once MYRAGE is used a person can't go back to reality.

Go is an ancient Chinese board game that is too complex for simple computation to ever solve and defeat a professional player. Neural Network systems use database information, hours of self play, probability analysis and computational force to create an entirely new way of thinking about games. In march 2016, Deep Mind's Neural Network system Alpha Go comfortably defeated Lee Sedol, one of the greatest 'Go' players of all time.

Youtube philantrophy refers to youtubers who give out money from corporate sponsorships and film the reactions of the recipients of their charity.

Scientists have managed to calculate the habitable time remaining for earth and calculations show that there is only 2 years left. Only the top most government officials of each country know about this information. The clock has been precisely calibrated to the second and an app has been made for global relase that increases time left for every step towards reducing global warming and reduces the time for every step against it in the worlds scheme of things. This earth timer app will constaly prevail on all devices next to the current time display.

China recently became the second country in history to have a rover on the red planet after the "zhurong" rover landed last May 15 at the pre selected area in Utopia Planitia on Mars. Experts consider this as a big victory to China's Space Exploration program which aims to become the world's leading space power 2045

True crime is a nonfiction literary, podcast, and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people associated with and affected by criminal events. The crimes most commonly include murder; about 40 percent focus on tales of serial killers.

The Nth room is a network of chat rooms that cater to various depraved and questionable interests. Individuals are invited to join, and those who do view, oversee and coerce victims to harm themselves, subject themselves to extreme fetishes and even participate in explicit acts (i.e. rape, torture, distribution of child porn). The government was able to uncover and dismantle one of these networks, and in the process, collect the names of all members involved, inclusive of chat room organizers and users. For the purpose of this debate, assume that select local media networks gained access to these information.

United Middle West is a representative democracy, struck with extreme poverty. The has 2 highly divisive parties which never agree on any policy which is a major contributor to the poverty level of the nation. Recently, an independent candidate Joe Trump has won the presidential elections by a landslide and under their leadership, has drastically improved the poverty situation through uniting the 2 parties. You are a journalist who has uncovered top secret information that if leaked to the public would certainly call for the removal of Joe Trump.

You are a sports journalist who has uncovered undeniable proof that every major sporting event(World Cup, Olympics, major football leagues) are all scripted events, and pro athletes are essentially paid actors, and it is physically impossible to reach the level of athleticism displayed by most pro-athletes

Libel insurance is a form of insurance that can pay your expenses if a suit for libel/defamation is filed against you. A 2017 article by Polly Mosendz in the Insurance Journal stated the following about libel insurance: "A longtime necessity for journalists, such policies are now being sold to the average American, bundled with more traditional policies covering homes and cars. For an additional couple of bucks a month, you can buy yourself a little peace of mind, knowing someone else will foot the bill if you're hit with a defamation lawsuit for what you say online."

A digital vaccine passport is an official document to indicate the completion of COVID-19 vaccines. The data to verify this passport will be collected from the national health data of the states and the individual holding the vaccine. Current plans see that passport will be required for international (and in some cases, domestic) travel, as well as, in some cases, involvement in public life such as education, business, and governance.

Citizen journalism is citizen-based journalism where citizens play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. The underlying principle of citizen journalism is that ordinary people, not professional journalists, can be the lead authors and distributors or messages. In recent times, citizen journalism has become more possible thanks to the development of various online platforms.

The GoT television series (now concluded, with some spin-offs in the works) overtook the release of books, with author George R. R. Martin - who is 72 - still yet to finish and release book six (The Winds of Winter) and book seven (A Dream of Spring), the former which has been delayed for several years. The final season of the GoT television series was generally not well received by fans.

In the movie Mean Girls, a group of popular but 'mean' girls (the 'Plastics') wrote 'The Burn Book'. The Burn Book is a scrapbook with photos of people at their school with lines of gossip and insults underneath the photos (e.g. "dyke", "too gay to function", "made out with the coach"). Regina George made the book public to the entire school by photocopying pages and throwing them in the school corridors. She blamed it on Cady. This caused a lot of fighting between students and suspicion of teachers being involved in illegal activities. The school board responded by forcing the students to talk in an open discussion about the things that were written down in the book such as sexuality (including slut- and virginshaming) fatshaming and anti-bullying.

To verify means to provide proof of your identity to social media companies.

There exists a scientist whose dream was to create a machine that would allow them to clone themselves (creating a replica of a human that has all of the biological and cognitive traits of the replicated human as well as the ability to grow old just like an average human would after creation). After many years of isolating themselves from society and secretly focusing on their work due to the scrutiny of the scientific community that made them feel misunderstood and alone, they have finally perfected the machine that would work in such a way.

There is an alternative reality, which reflects the impact of the most important decision in your life, had you made a different choice. There is a technology which allows you to see the impacts of this alternative choice you could have made on yourself and others. You can use the technology after 10 years from the time of your choice. You are not able to change anything. You are a passive observer.

The Impact Factor of a journal refers to the average frequency its articles are cited by other studies in a given year. This is commonly used to determine which journals are credible references. An impact factor of 10 or greater is excellent, 3 is considered good and 1 is average. The journal Nature has an impact factor of 42.778.

There is an alternative reality, which reflects the impact of the most important decision in your life, had you made a different choice. There is a technology which allows you to see the impacts of this alternative choice you could have made on yourself and others. You can use the technology after 10 years from the time of your choice. You are not able to change anything. You are a passive observer.

Artificial general intelligence, also known as "strong AI," is a level of artificial intelligence where the machine's capability to understand and learn any intellectual task is functionally equal to a human's

On 1 Feb 2021, Al Jazeera aired a documentary called "All the Prime Minister's Men" which exposed possible top-level corruption involving the head of the Bangladesh Army, Aziz Ahmed, his brothers and, prime minister Sheikh Hasina. The Bangladeshi government and army have pronounced all the allegations as false and misleading, and have exerted pressure on the national telecom authority to take down the documentary from various online sources. The news about the documentary was not covered by any prominent national news/journalism outlets.

Australia recently introduced regulation that would require Google and Facebook to pay compensation for news articles shared on their platforms. Google decided to conform with the regulation, while FB announced it would block sharing of Australian news.

A "gene drive" is a genetic modification designed to spread through an animal or plant population at higher-than-normal rates of inheritance. It is done by making the edited gene a "dominant" one so that it is inherited by the majority of that species in a few generations. Tools used include CRISPR.

News sharing is making news articles/stories available and accessible for free in different online platforms (ie. Google, Facebook). Governments of some developed nations have recently passed legislations requiring Google and Facebook to pay news organizations/companies for sharing their content.

Mass coming out is a move by and in which talents and celebrities come out as a collective rather than as individuals to call for more visibility of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations on screen and stage. This also comes with a manifesto signed by participating talents and celebrities.

Raffy Tulfo, known among his followers as "Mr. Action Man" and "Idol Raffy", is a Filipino Journalist who hosts the show called "Raffy Tulfo In Action". In this show, he arbitrates conflicts amongst people and usually resorts to extra-legal settlements.

The Jomari Lover System is an online dating application with a matchmaking system that is able to approximate the success rate of your relationship with the people you match with

Open source software is software whose code is open to the public to view, distribute, study, and modify. Individual modifications can be sent to some central authority and be accepted into the code base or rejected (e.g. the company that manages the software and created the original version). A large amount of development on open source software projects is in the form of changes proposed and written by programmers that are independent of the organization centrally managing the code base. Examples include Linux & Android operating systems, the Firefox & Chromium web browsers, TabbyCat.

The German model of academic streaming, sorts children into three tiers after primary school based on their academic ability: the highest takes the longest but is the only tier allowed to apply to university, the middle tier trains people for semi-skilled technical work (nursing, low-skill office jobs, electricians), and the lowest tier is oriented towards vocational work in the manufacturing sector. It is possible, but not easy, to change from one to another school type.