A lack of diverse perspectives in reporting on AI creates a feedback loop, giving rise to dominant news narratives that inform the public’s understanding of what AI is, how it operates, and in whose favor — and ultimately informs policy. techpolicy.press/interrogating-…

my baby is (finally) out 🤓 Have a look! Colonialism as ‘shared history’? Negotiating European colonial heritage in Casablanca and beyond tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We sent a request for information to Meta under the Digital Services Act. After Meta discontinued CrowdTangle and its election monitoring tools, we seek clarity on their compliance for researcher data access and plans for updating election and civic discourse monitoring tools ↓

#UPDATE Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov is expected to appear in court Sunday after being arrested by French police at an airport near Paris for alleged offences related to his popular messaging app, sources told AFP. u.afp.com/5uFj

With genAI, "uncertainty reigns over certainty, speculation dominates reality," @karenhao writes. Said one former Microsoft exec: "This must be the most money we’ve ever spent in the least amount of time on something we fundamentally don’t understand." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Job announcement: #postdoc positions in the new European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Project on small social media platforms in Germany w/ ethnography & data science lead by Sahana Udupa. bit.ly/ERCpostdocSMAL… More👇 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/705… Get in touch with Sahana Udupa

Dive into "Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media" with authors Sahana Udupa & Gabriel Dattatreyan in this #MediaWell book interview! 📚 Read more: mediawell.ssrc.org/articles/digit…

1/ ✨New CfP! We're excited to announce a themed issue on AI & Archives in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society—a new #OpenAccess initiative from Cambridge University Press, guest eds katie mackinnon (@ktmac), @ravn_louis, Unso Jo, Caroline Bassett Cambridge Digital Humanities and me! 🧵shorturl.at/hAI1l

Speaking tomorrow on how hate speakers perform to one another, why interactional dynamics matter in understanding online #extremespeech Applied Social Media Lab Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society w/ Joe Walther

Excietd to announce our panel at "Unwriting discursive and practiced hegemonies in anthropology" #SIEF2025. We are happy to receive your proposals and even more if you can spread the word to have a massive and diverse panel nomadit.co.uk/conference/sie…

Today we highlight an award-winning paper: 'Ethical scaling for content moderation: Extreme speech and the (in)significance of artificial intelligence' by Sahana Udupa, Antonis Maronikolakis and Axel Wisiorek Check the conversation with Sahana Udupa➡️ youtu.be/j6ufNRTBNEY

Thanks Big Data & Society for this interview and International Communication Association for the outstanding article award for our publication on #AI and content moderation w/ Antonis Maronikolakis & Axel Wisiorek. Thanks to all fact checkers Anna-Sophie Barbutev Govindraj Ethiraj Anmol Alphonso 🕵🍉 Cristina Tardáguila Fact Crescendo Erick Kashara

Following the election, far-right groups erupted in celebration—escalating violent rhetoric and issuing threats. From Proud Boys to neo-Nazis, extremist factions are rallying around #Trump. Read this thread:🧵👇

In Living Right, Agnieszka Pasieka provides an in-depth account of the ideas and practices that are driving the varied forms of far-right activism by young people from all walks of life. Out 12 November. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02WC-1c0 (7 Jan UK pub)

KU Leuven is hiring/ open-rank professorial position in #anthropology with regional expertise in #Asia. Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 Spread the word :) kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

What can South-to-South knowledge exchange contribute to Tech and Democracy research? What are divergence points between Global North & South tech justice advocacies? How are so-called global “whole-of-society” coalitions extractive of “local partners”? New study GloTech Lab 1/6

Very happy to welcome the stellar Fellows to Munich! CAS_LMU Anmol Alphonso 🕵🍉 BOOM Live, Sérgio Barbosa Universidade de Coimbra Cayley Clifford Africa Check Kiran Garimella Rutgers School of Communication and Information Elonnai Hickok Global Network Initiative Martin Johannes Riedl UT School of Journalism and Media Erkan Saka İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Herman Wasserman Stellenbosch Journalism