@cbpetre

Assoc. Prof. @RutgersCommInfo. Author of "All the News That's Fit to Click," a deep dive on metrics & journalism: https://xitter.cf/t.co/PtPEwr7MKw

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Joined May 2013
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All the News That’s Fit to Click is officially OUT and in the world! There are many anticlimactic moments in academia, but I can now say that holding your own book in your hands isn’t one of them. 1/x press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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New from me and @JuliaTicona1: an essay for @nytimes about the now-or-never efforts to secure a future for paid creative work in the age of gen AI, and why they matter. nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opini…

Opinion | The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning?

What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.

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Honored to receive funding from @NEHgov (and beyond excited to join forces with @JuliaTicona1) for a new project on creative labor and generative AI... comminfo.rutgers.edu/news/na…
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🎇Hi everyone! Interrupting my months-long twitter hiatus to share two new publications I'm proud of, both published open-access in @IJoC_USC (1/5)🎇:
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The 2nd, Structures of Capital and Sociotechnical Change (w/@bshestakofsky), argues that if we want to understand why tech develops as it does, we have to look more closely at the role of financing models (and Venture Capital specifically) (4/5): ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/arti…
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(This piece is part of a fantastic symposium about Sociotechnical Change curated by @ananny and @simognehudson -- all the pieces can be found here and I encourage you to check them out! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issu…). (5/5)
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Thank you for reading! (also I think reading a book 2 years after publication counts as early in academia-time :)
Elif Birced@BircedElif18 Jul 2023
It’s my bad to read @cbpetre’s book so late! Her book broadened my perspective of what autonomy means for journalists who are not working at news organizations with multiple levels of editorial assessment. It shows how control and autonomy co-exists in metric-driven organizations
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Vincent Mosco@Vmosco16 Jul 2023
It feels like there are two stories topping the news today--the strikes in Hollywood and the fight over AI. This book, written fifty years ago, is one of the best guides to understanding both.
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I got tenure!!
Rutgers School of Communication and Information@RutgersCommInfo21 Apr 2023
Congratulations to #RUSCI faculty members Shawnika Hull (#COM), Sunyoung Kim (#LIS), and Caitlin Petre (#JMS)! The @RutgersU Board of Governors has approved their promotions effective July 1, 2023! More: ow.ly/WrJa50NPqFH @RutgersNB @cbpetre
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Kristian Lum
@KLdivergence4 Nov 2022
All of twitter’s ML Ethics, transparency, and accountability team (except one). was laid off today. So much for that responsible ML initiative, huh?
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Lessig 🇺🇦
@lessig2 Nov 2022
alas, it turns out business model is law.
Frank Bajak@fbajak2 Nov 2022
Code is law. - Larry Lessig
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The Onion
@TheOnion15 Sep 2022
School Administration Reminds Female Students Bulletproof Vests Must Cover Midriff bit.ly/3Dqfbgd
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My smart friend Max (so smart he's not on twitter) went on @CNN to talk about how climate disaster worsens economic inequality - and how better housing policy can help!
Michael Holmes@holmesnetmedia4 Sep 2022
Long term effects of #ClimateChange mean governments need to look at "managed retreats" of communities in risk areas, rather than constant post disaster rebuilding, says Prof Max Besbris. It will save lives - and provide opportunities, too, for better design and social equality.
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Jodi Kantor
@jodikantor15 Aug 2022
New: Meet Rev. Richardson, a hospice chaplain who had to rack up “productivity points” as she tended to the dying. Her story illustrates the rise of the worker productivity score, one of the biggest expansions of employer power in generations. 🧵 nyti.ms/3dl37lq
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Platform studies friends: what's the best work to read/assign on employee activism within the big tech companies? (Tech won't build it, google walkout, etc)
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"One late summer day in 2020, two weeks before his senior year would begin, a Black boy from Maplewood drowned. The silence after Omar Hutchinson’s death was deafening." Our op-ed is out today! nj.com/opinion/2022/07/publi…

A child drowned, a pool was abandoned. Public pools are for so much more than recreation. | Opinion

Destroying a pool means ruining a chance for children to learn a life-saving skill and for them to learn about each other.

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Extremely excited to share this news today with our #RUSCI family and friends! #GloriaSteinemEndowedChair
IWL Rutgers@IWLRutgers21 Jun 2022
Roxane Gay (@rgay), an internationally recognized writer, editor, cultural critic, and educator, has been selected as the next Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at @RutgersNB. bit.ly/3OfqWZI
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MIC Center@MIC_Center31 May 2022
MIC is hiring for a postdoc focusing on the political economy of local media. More specifics here: asc.upenn.edu/news-events/ne… Deadline 7/17

MIC Center Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher

asc.upenn.edu
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