Chanders

inquiline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to mastodon

Friends, strangers, haters: I have... made hay. Let no one say I haven't committed to the bit.

(Wrote a paper about Asstodon, everyone be kind)

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

#STS #Mastodon #Commodon #autoethnography #DareIUseTheHashtag #Donkeygate #FirstMonday

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

Kudos to AOIR for this.

https://aoir.org/aoir2023onmastodon/

“we will not be tweeting during the #AoIR2023 conference. Instead, we will be posting on AoIR’s Mastodon instance (aoir.social).”

Chanders, 8 months ago to random

"X isn’t the old Twitter anymore. Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon don’t yet fill the old Twitter niche either. But at this point, staying on Twitter because there’s no replacement is a bit like saying “I still drive my old gas guzzler because I can’t afford a new car,” when the old gas guzzler is missing a tire and the steering wheel. …Dude, accept it. You just don’t have a car anymore."

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/does-anyone-think-twitter-gets-better?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=387131&post_id=136791650&isFreemail=true&r=15ki&utm_medium=email

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

You’ve never done moderation for a decentralized network- I mean, never REALLY done it- til you’ve done it during an Israel/Palestine war.

Chanders, 9 months ago to random

Definitely seeing a larger than usual number of academic follows in the past few days. Hi everyone!

A lot of them seem to be from folks who have joined for a while but who have been mostly quiet. Not sure if this is related to the "X" debacle, problems at other sites (BlueSky, Threads, etc) or just wanting to try again.

Anyway welcome to all.

#commodon #academicchatter

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

“That raises an awkward question. What if globalisation, far from promoting democracy in China, undermined democracy in the US? It would be an amusing historical irony — if we were not living with the consequences.”

https://on.ft.com/3t0QofP

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

Happy to celebrate my coming out as an official old by never having heard of the Oxford Word of the Year for the first time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/12/04/rizz-meaning-oxford-word-of-year/

Chanders, 4 months ago to random

A NYE tradition for me: posting Virginia Woolf’s NY resolutions for 1931. Always good.

Chanders, 10 months ago to twitter

Seriously though when people use this thing it is literally exactly the same as #twitter, like, 100%. I mean better, but basically the same.

The differences between Mastodon and Twitter are 98% due to the frequency of use.

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

Am being asked to review an utterly depressing paper: authors check machine-generated aesthetic output for stereotypes

A future where we all elect to spend our time attending to casually-generated garbage and commenting on it is a bleak future

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

/now/ Mastodon is awake.

Chanders, 6 months ago to random

“Here we report that four major commercial LLMs all had instances of promoting race-based medicine. Since these models are trained in an unsupervised fashion on large-scale corpuses from the internet and textbooks, they may incorporate older, biased, or inaccurate information since they do not assess research quality.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-023-00939-z

Chanders, 6 months ago to journalism

An interesting and entirely unscientific data point today: my largely European journalism and political communication masters students today said they got most of their news from Instagram by following individual journalists directly.

#journalism #SocialMedia #postplatform

Chanders, 1 month ago to random

Nothing beats peer-reviewing an article and coming face-to-face with the fact that entire, sustained, years-long arguments that colleagues were having / making not even a decade ago have been entirely forgotten or where never noticed at all! This is why I am sanguine about the hurly-burly of academic life. Soon we will all be lost to time ...

Chanders, 6 months ago to random

Big thanks to Marc Andreessen for once again proving the relevance of the entire class I teach on the manifesto as a discursive genre.

From: @bengrosser
https://mastodon.social/@bengrosser/111250622251309933

Chanders, 8 months ago to journalism

Some professional news:

I'm very happy to share the news that the book, "A History of Digital Journalism" and authored by myself, Eugenia Mitchelstein, and Danielle Brown, is now under contract with Polity Press! Beyond the actual work on the substance of the book, I am really excited to work with these brilliant scholars. 1/x

#journalism #commodon

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

“[Zadie Smith’s] two paths for the novel have become a perfect circle: What could be more avant-garde in an age of data harvesting and identity politics than a heartfelt 19th-century novel?” https://www.vulture.com/article/zadie-smith-the-fraud-review.html?ueid=b637f759312c7fe8bc635947e83b971b&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Cover%20Drop%20-%20September%2011%2C%202023&utm_term=NYMag%20-%20Paywall

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

“Google built a business around getting people off its site. The company grew and branched out, but I suspect you still use that core tool regularly, if not daily. It was perhaps the best encapsulation of a mantra I first heard from web pioneer Dave Winer: The more you send people away, the more they come back.”

https://wapo.st/46julPW

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

A social media app where one story- no matter how important- does not dominate the agenda to the exclusion of everything else is a far healthier way to live with media, and far closer to how human life is structured.

Chanders, 3 months ago to random

“My CD single reviews are no great loss to posterity – but vast swathes of 21st-century music criticism are now literally unreadable. Every dead link on the reviews’ aggregator Metacritic tells a story of neglect.”

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2024/01/the-pitchfork-years

Chanders, 4 months ago to random

“The user migration from Twitter to Mastodon that followed Elon Musk's purchase of the Blue Bird site represents one of the largest digital migrations in the history of the Social Web and it is one rare examples of collective behavioral change that is documented through large-scale digital traces.”

From: @lajello
https://datasci.social/@lajello/111561167426229265

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

I’ve now moved six times in 8 years and my advice is: never move.

jeffjarvis, 22 days ago to random

"It’s hard to think of a time since the anti-Communist House Un-American Activities Committee when Congress has made such an effort to investigate disfavored ideologies in academe."
Republicans Wanted a Crackdown on Israel’s Critics. Columbia Obliged. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/columbia-antisemitism-hearing.html?pvid=OMITSuEWAYCkwy-DOfZKmW9a&ugrp=c&smid=tw-share

Chanders, 3 months ago to random

“"Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs," Osgood said. "There's nothing that can't be improved by making it shorter and better."”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charles-osgood-veteran-cbs-newsman-and-longtime-host-of-sunday-morning-dies-at-91/

Academics take note.

Chanders, 3 months ago to random

I’ve generally been pretty supportive/ forgiving of Biden. Even his support for Israel, not because I agree with the policy, but I can’t imagine him temperamentally or politically doing anything else.

But linking the border bill and Ukraine aid has been an utter debacle. Truly a failure of political skill and a massive strategic unforced error.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/ukraine-aid-border-bill-israel-senate