Journalist designer archivist information science researcher socio-technology critic teacher musician & part-time quantum mechanic.
Champaign, IL
Joined February 2009
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Thrilled to share that our article, "Examining Journalists’ Adoption of Social Media Tools in Contexts of Precarity," is out! Huge thanks to @KafiliSoheil and @rmoon 🙏😊tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @tandfonline @journstudies
F-ing brilliant! The level of detail on the listed surveillance companies is impressive and so useful for my research. Not that you asked me, but great design as well, with maybe a few web accessibility issues. (Sorry, former front-end developer here.)
We, along with @AINowInstitute and
@logic_magazine, are proud to support Surveillance Watch: an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
surveillancewatch.io
ALT Screenshot of the website: They Know Who You Are. It's Time to Uncover Who they Are. Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. Ready to find out?
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I've been saying for a while now that the future of local news cannot depend on predatory platforms: In the world’s tech capital, Gazetteer SF is staying off platforms to produce good local journalism niemanlab.org/2024/07/in-the… via @NiemanLab
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Important article by @CharisPapaev on Google & Facebook as "funding intermediaries" in journalism space, leading to increased power for the platforms. With actual data to back it up.
𝘋𝘐𝘎𝘐𝘛𝘈𝘓 𝘑𝘖𝘜𝘙𝘕𝘈𝘓𝘐𝘚𝘔 — NEWSLETTER ALERT! Check out our Issue 5 newsletter with article links from our latest special issue “Meso News-Spaces and Beyond”, and interviews with the guest editors and a first-time author.
➡️Click here to read: drive.google.com/file/d/1RQQ…
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Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web? | ACM Transactions on the Web dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36494…
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Yes and we need a broader understanding that technology may have certain affordances and limitations, but the impact it has on society is shaped by humans. We should think critically about what impacts we do and don't want from AI before allowing the industry to just let it loose
📣New! Despite its increasing adoption in AI governance and industry circles, the term “sociotechnical” is widely misunderstood. Our new brief aims to remedy that, explaining what a sociotechnical perspective is and why it’s so important in policy. 1/6 datasociety.net/library/a-so…
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So proud of my NPR station @ILPublicMedia for launching @illinois_soul. Music, news, and local voices by and for the Black community. Tag line: "the Black public radio station you've been waiting for." On 101.1 FM and streaming here: will.illinois.edu/illinoisso…
Jack Brighton retweeted
What do we call it when #AI text generators/#LLMs make things up? I made three word clouds of possibilities suggested in response to a recent thread, listed here bit.ly/HallucinationAlternat… with attribution. Thanks to all who participated!.
The first set of alternative phrases:
ALT The following words in a cloud: data mirage misprediction auto-synthesized mirage auto-synthesized misinformation bad prediction miscalculation misinterpolation papier mâché made out of training data synthetic misinformation auto-synthesized invalid output confected nonsense fabrication hallucination incorrect synthetic generation AI oopsy aifabrication artifict bad guess confabulation fail jumbling up made up malfunction misfire misinformation reality-incompatible artifact scientific wild-ass guesses
Speaking of social construction of reality, here's a great review by @pbkauf of Carlos Eire's book They Flew: A History of the Impossible: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Given that xTwitter, Facebook, and YouTube have decided to stop filtering political disinformation during this U.S. election cycle, it seems relevant to remind of their complicity in the political campaigns themselves: informationsciencejournal.or…
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The next Jim Carrey film almost writes itself. "The expense of AI language models...requires gargantuan amounts of data and software.... AI companies also typically hire star researchers whose salaries can rival those of pro athletes" washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Any news exec who thinks their job is to "make" news isn't a news exec.
"You do not have to like the former president's answers, but you can't say that we didn't get them," Licht tells staffers, many of whom are angry about the town hall. "Kaitlan pressed him again and again and made news. Made a LOT of news." And "that is our job."
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As the developer of several media-rich websites I don't consider this at all friendly: "Img2dataset will attempt to scrape images from any site unless site owners add https headers like 'X-Robots-Tag: noai,' and 'X-Robots-Tag: noindex.' vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/a…
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