Part of Agentic Media @mediaofcoop | Former Coordinator and Editor @HKW_Berlin | she/her

Joined June 2013
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Watch this space for job announcements in the weeks to come. We will be opening PhD stipends, doc positions within research projects as well as postdoc coordination position and a postdoc to built a Critical Data School!
📣Die DFG hat entschieden: Unser SFB @mediaofcoop wird für weitere 4 Jahre gefördert! Wir freuen uns über die Entscheidung der DFG und danken unserem großartigen Team an Forschenden! Das war eine kollektive Leistung! Hier gehts zur DFG Pressemitteilung: dfg.de/service/presse/presse…
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Four more years of Agentic Media 🍾
I am happy to be part of this great endeavor! Looking forward to continuing our research on “Agentic Media” with Karin Knorr Cetina, @essueff and Hendrik Bender and to start a second subproject with Maximilian Becker and @skoopit on the “Industry of Personal Data”. Soooo excited!
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Join us (@mediaofcoop) online for our conference "Technolinguistics in Practice" on May 24-26! Program here: mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/e… Register here: tiny.cc/technolinguistics-st…
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with keynotes by Paul Kockelman, @mccastelle and Ilana Gershon. Organized by @bumatic @skoopit @AndroidLinguist, Siri Lamoureaux, David Waldecker and me.
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@bumatic and me will discuss how frameworks infrastructure conversational AI and how large language models such as #ChatGPT (and other resources) are rendered applicable for rather mundane chatbots for, f.e., pizza orders (the hello world! of chatbots)
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Join the in Siegen @mediaofcoop, May 24-26, for the conference “Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in AI Systems” with keynotes by Paul Kockelman, @mccastelle and Ilana Gershon. tiny.cc/technolinguistics
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🚨NEW: 43 content moderators have sued @Meta in what is the 3rd lawsuit against the company in Kenya! The case brings out further details of the kind of plantation-like operation Facebook and Sama were running in Kenya. Here's what it reveals 🧵 nation.africa/kenya/business…
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Transparenz. Das ist das, was unsere wirtschaftsstiftungsfinanzierten Kaviar-Aktivist*innen von staatlich angewendeten #KI Systemen abverlangen. Transparenz.bei.asymmetrischen.Machtverhältnissen wirkt.abschreckend. Transparenz setzt Handlungsmöglichkeit des Empfängers voraus
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The APRJA.net workshop in London last week was great! Come see our presentations and grab a newspaper on "Minor Tech" at Transmediale on Feb 2! 2023.transmediale.de/en/even… with @lynxlynxly @kitsche @integloerich @xenodatacoop @rscmbbng @aldmilne and others
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I'll talk about claims for small language models and the linking to external databases such as Wikipedia as another way of upscaling
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A politician from the UK does a brilliant job grilling an Amazon exec about dystopian algorithms surveilling workers. Every single member of Congress in the US needs to watch this and take notes.
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German Cancel Culture: Du bringst pointierte Texte, die dem deutschen Anti-Dekolonialisierungs- und Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti-Faschismus-Konsens etwas entgegensetzen - und wirst dann degradiert, weil du den Auftritt eines faschistoiden Autokraten kritisierst @hahauenstein
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dropbox.com/s/dfomx2e642zt8v… We (@mediaofcoop and others from the US+Japan) organize the Workshop "Technolinguistics in Practice" in May 23 (in Siegen, GE) on the intersection of ML, language and social implications. Send your abstract for a talk until Dec 1!
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Deutsche sprechen von „Neidgesellschaft“, wenn jemand Milliardäre nicht so gut findet, aber bekommen einen Tobsuchtsanfall bei gratis Menstruationsprodukten
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Hört mein Handy bzw. hören einzelne Apps bei Gesprächen mit, um passende Werbung anzuzeigen? Diese Frage wurde uns immer wieder gestellt. Technisch ist das möglich und geht z. T. sogar sehr lange und auch, wenn der Bildschirm aus ist. Was unsere Recherche noch gezeigt hat:
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📆 👩🏻‍💻 On Tuesday 1 Feb (6pm CET) I will be joining the online lecture series of the research centre @mediaofcoop at @UniSiegen to present part of my new work on the philosophy of causation in AI. To register: mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/e…
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The design of chatbots and their ability to critically respond to abusive behavior matters! #feministai futurism.com/chatbot-abuse
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Moderating a panel with @ccmmody and @stalfel on Thursday! More here: bit.ly/3FDLhD6
Digital Materialities?! We are very excited to host the conference "Digital Matters" @mediaofcoop @UniSiegen & welcome @jonathansterne, @RiederB, @kjstine, @quinndupont, @blanchettejf, @ccmmody, @stalfel, @valerie_schafer & others. Registration & schedule: bit.ly/3FDLhD6
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Tomorrow the annual conference of @mediaofcoop on #resituating #learning will close with an online-panel on Human-Machine-Learning (10AM-2PM CET) with a Keynote by @MrsBunz and talks by @ptubaro, @juliane_jarke, @hen_drik and @samhind10. Wanna Zoom in? DM me.
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