Our online lives are pretty dominated by the clickbait. We know it but what can you do? It’s everywhere! And that’s a problem. It doesn’t have to be that way though, behavioral scientists want to design a new, more honest internet.
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Memes are a form of communication. Even if you don’t personally get them or understand only a subset of them, that doesn’t change the fact that the joke format is one that is used to communicate a wide range of expressions. The downside is that they’re not accessible. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have trained a system that can classify memes with 92% accuracy making the accessible for sight impaired individuals.
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Internet literacy is a big deal and as we move more of our lives into the digital sphere, it will be more and more important to have a good grasp on how to sniff out bad information because it’s getting harder to tell these days. When in doubt, use the CRAAP scale.
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Remember Yahoo Answers? It’s 2016, Yahoo is basically dead in the water but Answers is still providing literal hours of enjoyment. Of course, if you actually want an answer, you may not want to fall into that pit of hilarious misspellings and troll la la. Jelly is a website meant to answer your questions more directly than just piecing together Google search results.
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