It's a very odd feeling, having played a role in Web 1, 2, & 3, to be mentoring students who only know of those moments via third-party scholarship.
Much of that scholarship is very good. But it's all coalesced around received wisdom & fixed narratives, and those tend to leave out a lot of important details.
I'm always torn about whether and how much to use my own memory/experience of the events to add nuance, or to just let the official story be the official story.
More than 50 scholars of communication and #journalism from top universities have signed a letter calling on NYT to address questions about a major investigative report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel
"The letter follows months of criticism raised by outside critics as well as some NYT staffers about the credibility of its sourcing and the editorial process for the story"
Listened to The Daily yesterday, which featured Cade Metz's reporting that OpenAI and its competitors have scraped the entire English-language Internet as input for their LLMs and it's almost as if it should be a limit problem from a @stevenstrogatz's book. What happens to the sum of copyright infringement penalties as the number of infractions approaches infinity?
This National Academies workshop on "Evolving Technological, Legal and Social Solutions to Counter Disinformation in Social Media" starts today at noon (US EDT) and will be streamed to the Web. I'll be participating and will present in a panel tomorrow on changing the incentive structures around the propagation of disinformation.
Call for papers about "AI and Resilience" for a special issue of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. This is an interdisciplinary call for a range of perspectives. Critical, humanistic, cultural, historical perspectives are all welcome => https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/62761/ai-and-resilience
The East Asia Center and Miller Center at U of Virginia are hiring a Global China Post-doctoral Research Associate.
This position is open to applicants from a range of backgrounds including global studies, history, media studies, politics, science and technology studies, and sociology. Language proficiency in Chinese is preferred.
Pleased to be taking part in this National Academies workshop on April 10–11th, organized by Joan Donovan and Saul Perlmutter: "Evolving Technological, Legal, and Social Solutions to Counter Disinformation in Social Media"
Deadline extended to 3 April! Submit to our pre-conference at the 2024 ECREA conference in Ljubljana. Together, we want to dive into victimhood identities and their mediated negotiations in the past, present, and future. More information here: https://affectemotionandmedia.wordpress.com/events/#Commodon#mediastudies
Latest #FOSSAcademic post: Researching the fediverse from the perspective of individual or instances. In which I draw on an article Christina Dunbar-Hester to talk about researchers' perspectives on the #fediverse, including my own.
Perhaps of special interest to fediversal citizens, my book Hacking Diversity 🌈🕸️ ; Biella Coleman's Coding Freedom; @gleemie 's Chasing Innovation; @tltaylor's Watch Me Play can all be had for around $8 each. There are also, um, lotsa non-tech titles!
I just saw on the incomparable Don Ihde's Wikipedia page that he appears to have passed away. But the page doesn't give any date of his passing or any details.
Does anyone know anything? I'm really sad regardless if it's true.
Congrats to @laura4lano and Danya Glabau on their new book Cyborg being out soon with @mitpress !!
" Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender, race, and disability shape how technology is imagined, developed, used, and resisted."
After a successful search in the Fall we're hiring again! This is a wonderful department filled with colleagues I truly love. Please spread widely within your networks.
Full-Time Lecturer Position in Public Relations | UMass Amherst Journalism Department
Amidst the growing threat of #disinformation, I am thrilled to welcome a new voice among our Boston University Communication Research Center fellows who study mediated communication dysfunction: Dr. Betsi Grabe.
"Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics’ historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving"