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🚨Data Access Thread🚨 First: Coalition for Independent Technology Research and Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics are organizing an important DSA data access project (w/ Megan A. Brown, Kevin Yang, and me) and we need your help compiling information about researcher data access. See our site for the survey. 1/n independenttechresearch.org/introducing-th…

#hackica24 will be at the beautiful Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Come hack with us on June 19 and 20. Thanks to Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected] & QUT for hosting us. Sign up here: icahdq.org/event/ICA24-Ha…

🚨Excited to share our recent publication, “Exploring the role of political elites in post-truth communication on social media” (co-authored with Kate FitzGerald 🌻). Fully open access at MIA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… Below is a brief explainer thread 🧵

Mangled, pinched and inaccurate. How AI generated sport site League Initiative is pinching stories and trashing them.

Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected] worries that a culture within computer science that "data found is data that is yours" means that millions of creative works could be being ripped off to build generative AI tools. Listen to the latest episode of The Conversation Weekly. theconversation.com/computer-scien…

Our research found racial & gender bias in facial age estimation: tech performs best on white faces, worst on dark faces, with errors of up to 40 years. We show why AV won't 'save the children' and argue for porn literacy. Abdul Karim Obeid Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected] & Alan McKee journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🚀 Excited to share that our #ICA24 preconference, The Future of Computational Message Science, was a great success yesterday! Our speakers and panelists delivered fascinating talks, and the participants were very engaged. Thank you to everyone who made it an unforgettable event!

How do political parties win elections these days? Social media is key, and our new thematic issue explores how political parties in 14 countries worldwide use it to push their issues. A variety of approaches are found below (🧵) Issue: shorturl.at/ykXmf

It was great to speak with Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected] recently about the QUT Digital Media Research Centre's submission to the government's Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society. Check out our podcast episode here! open.spotify.com/episode/13iczR…

I just caught the interview of Max Chandler-Mather by Sarah Ferguson on abc730. My question to Sarah would be, as the lead anchor for one of our most trusted news organisations, why trash that reputation now by aligning yourself with trashy tabloid style gotcha journalism?