© 2020 Breaking the Silence – Machine Learning Identified Taboos by Amalia Foka.
machine learning identified taboos
New York Times, the #MeToo movement got people motivated
Due to the entrenched conflations of sex and sin in the Christian tradition, visual incarnations of the pregnant female body were somewhat of a taboo. Known for her unsettling portraits of rotting corpses, Mann’s lens doesn’t shy away from taboo topics. It feels almost taboo to cough...
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Russia began violating the treaty
It is sometimes assumed that the absence of nuclear war since World War II proves that nuclear weapons are not...
Atrocities on Hindus minorities in Bangladesh
During and after the clearance operation that resulted in more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh, human rights groups and...
HIV. Let’s talk about it.
Menses is generally perceived "unclean" and menstrual taboos are well described across many cultures. Although Western cultures have evolved from the...
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Discrimination and xenophobia materialise in specific ways in France
The government has launched a public awareness campaign to make plastic bags taboo. It has...
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Breaking The Silence
Breaking The Silence uses machine learning methods to understand what are the contemporary taboo topics. It aims to highlight and bring to focus what topics are currently discussed as taboos. The generated summarizations underline the different topics discussed at different times and additionally the arguments for the creation, maintenance, or destruction of a taboo. Learn more.
