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Good news :) We are honored to have been awarded the International Communication Association outstanding article award. Many thanks everyone, esp partnering factcheckers! w/ @antmarakis Axel Wisiorek @icahdq @BigDataSoc journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Very happy to welcome the stellar Fellows to Munich! @cas_lmu @AnmolAlphonso
@boomlive_in, Sérgio Barbosa @UnivdeCoimbra @cayleyclifford @AfricaCheck @gvrkiran
@RutgersCommInfo Elonnai Hickok @theGNI
@martinriedl @UTJEM @sakaerka
@BiLGiOfficial @hwasser @StelliesJourn
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What can South-to-South knowledge exchange contribute to Tech and Democracy research? What are divergence points between Global North & South tech justice advocacies? How are so-called global “whole-of-society” coalitions extractive of “local partners”? New study @GloTechLab 1/6
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In Living Right, @agadarancia provides an in-depth account of the ideas and practices that are driving the varied forms of far-right activism by young people from all walks of life.
Out 12 November. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02WC-1c0 (7 Jan UK pub)
ALT A sobering look at the seductive power of fascist ideas for the young.
KU Leuven is hiring/ open-rank professorial position in #anthropology with regional expertise in #Asia. Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 Spread the word :) kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsit…
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Following the election, far-right groups erupted in celebration—escalating violent rhetoric and issuing threats. From Proud Boys to neo-Nazis, extremist factions are rallying around #Trump.
Read this thread:🧵👇
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Today we highlight an award-winning paper: 'Ethical scaling for content moderation: Extreme speech and the (in)significance of artificial intelligence' by Sahana Udupa, Antonis Maronikolakis and Axel Wisiorek
Check the conversation with @4digitaldignity➡️ youtu.be/j6ufNRTBNEY
Thanks @BigDataSoc for this interview and @icahdq for the outstanding article award for our publication on #AI and content moderation w/ @antmarakis & Axel Wisiorek. Thanks to all fact checkers @asbarbutev @govindethiraj @AnmolAlphonso @ctardaguila @FactCrescendo Erick Kashara
Today we highlight an award-winning paper: 'Ethical scaling for content moderation: Extreme speech and the (in)significance of artificial intelligence' by Sahana Udupa, Antonis Maronikolakis and Axel Wisiorek
Check the conversation with @4digitaldignity➡️ youtu.be/j6ufNRTBNEY
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Prof. Alondra Nelson (@alondra) speaking at @UVA @uvadatascience about integrating tech and social policy. Dr. Nelson is concerned that academia will be caught doing the “clean up work” for industry, which is rushing untested and poorly understood AI products to market.
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Speaking tomorrow on how hate speakers perform to one another, why interactional dynamics matter in understanding online #extremespeech @TheLabBKC @BKCHarvard w/ @joewalther
Next week: the Institute for Rebooting Social Media presents former scholar @joewalther and current BKC fellow @4digitaldignity on social media groupthink, online hate, + extreme speech. Join online or in person October 9 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm ET rebootingsocialmedia.org/eve…
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1/ ✨New CfP! We're excited to announce a themed issue on AI & Archives in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society—a new #OpenAccess initiative from @CambridgeUP, guest eds @ktcmackinnon, @ravn_louis, @unsojo, Caroline Bassett @CamDigHum and me! 🧵shorturl.at/hAI1l
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Dive into "Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media" with authors @4digitaldignity & @GabrielDattatre in this #MediaWell book interview! 📚 Read more: mediawell.ssrc.org/articles/…
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Job announcement: #postdoc positions in the new
@ERC_Research Consolidator Project on small social media platforms in Germany w/ ethnography & data science lead by @4digitaldignity. bit.ly/ERCpostdocSMALLPLATFO…
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job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting…
Get in touch with @4digitaldignity
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With genAI, "uncertainty reigns over certainty, speculation dominates reality," @karenhao writes. Said one former Microsoft exec: "This must be the most money we’ve ever spent in the least amount of time on something we fundamentally don’t understand." theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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#UPDATE Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov is expected to appear in court Sunday after being arrested by French police at an airport near Paris for alleged offences related to his popular messaging app, sources told AFP. u.afp.com/5uFj
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my baby is (finally) out 🤓 Have a look!
Colonialism as ‘shared history’? Negotiating European colonial heritage in Casablanca and beyond tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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A lack of diverse perspectives in reporting on AI creates a feedback loop, giving rise to dominant news narratives that inform the public’s understanding of what AI is, how it operates, and in whose favor — and ultimately informs policy. techpolicy.press/interrogati…
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We sent a request for information to Meta under the Digital Services Act.
After Meta discontinued CrowdTangle and its election monitoring tools, we seek clarity on their compliance for researcher data access and plans for updating election and civic discourse monitoring tools ↓
Inviting applications for four #postdoc positions in the new @ERC_Research Consolidator Project on small social media platforms w/ ethnography & data science. Deadline for applications: 31 Aug '24. bit.ly/ERCpostdocSMALLPLATFO… Looking forward to having you on my team :)