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For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/

Hi all! I'm looking to hire research interns for the Summer/Fall 2024 to work with me at MPI-SP in Bochum, Germany, research the harms of emerging technologies. More information can be found at mhaidli.github.io/workingwithabr…. Please share among your networks!

Think you know a lot about AI trainers in Kenya, Venezuela, India, Madagascar... but not China? #DiPLab has concocted a webinar for you on April 24, 2PM CET, with our valiant friends and researchers extraordinaire Tianling Yang & Ben Z. Zhang. Register here 👉 diplab.eu/tianling-yang-…

I will join Indiana University Bloomington Luddy School Department of Information and Library Science as a tenure track assistant professor this fall. Very excited about my new life chapter❗️🧲 IU Luddy أ

If you're a usable privacy researcher, come give us feedback on a privacy assistant for augmented reality (AR) users! Study sessions will take place for 1hr over Zoom from May 1st-10th. Sign up here: forms.gle/iUsVxNaPEnSs5c…

Are you an undergraduate who used an anonymous discussion app (like #Sidechat or #Fizz) at some point in the last semester? Share your experiences w/ these apps in a 1 hr Zoom interview! Fill out the screening survey if interested: bit.ly/college-anonym… RT's appreciated💜

UMSI's Ben Zhang, Rahaf Alharbi and Shwetha Rajaram have earned prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships, which support “outstanding doctoral candidates working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.” 💡 Learn more: myumi.ch/ZDbAX

Thrilled to share I’ll be joining UMD iSchool UMD College of Information Univ. of Maryland as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2025 #GoTerps🐢. I'm grateful I get to spend one more year as a postdoc @UW_iSchool @UWCIP till next summer 🫶. More on my research: yiweixu.net

"Henry Russel Lecturer, award winners named for 2024...Ruth Behar, cultural anthropologist who has spent decades building bridges across political and cultural chasms, has been selected as the University of Michigan’s 2024 Henry Russel Lecturer" Ruth Behar record.umich.edu/articles/henry…

Devastated to learn that the political scientist James C. Scott recently passed away. Such a generous, brilliant, and original thinker, from "Weapons of the Weak" to "Moral Economy of the Peasant" to "Seeing Like a State" to "Against the Grain."

We're still accepting SafeAR workshop applications until Monday, July 29th! Submit a 2 page research statement or 3 min video to join us @ ISMAR 2024 :)

Applying to the @UMSI PhD program? Participate in the UMSI PhD Application Feedback Program—led by current Ph.D. students at UMSI who want to support applicants from underrepresented backgrounds in higher ed. 📅 Materials accepted until Nov 11 🔗 Link: bit.ly/UMSI-Review-20…

How do Chinese migrant tech professionals experience social media algorithms? A #CSCW2024 paper from Cassidy Pyle (on the job market) Ben Z. Zhang Oliver Haimson Dr. Nazanin Andalibi shows how recommended content shapes their mobility-related aspirations, sometimes negatively. tinyurl.com/y7rfb9y6-cscw2…

✨ I am on the job market! I'm seeking academic TT and postdoc roles in social/human-centered computing and related fields. I am an interdisciplinary scholar finishing up my Ph.D. in Information at the University of Michigan, with a background in Communication and Media. (1/5)

Really clear presentation with depths about migrant tech professional’s experiences with recommendation algorithms, from Cassidy Pyle (on the job market) and Ben Z. Zhang !!!! Really like the concept of algorithmic mobility!

Grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Cassidy Pyle (on the job market) . Cassidy is an incredible person, an outstanding researcher, and a truly supportive friend. This work wouldn’t be possible without her dedication and partnership!

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week about a pending ban on social media app TikTok, an outcome of a law signed by President Biden last April that would take effect Jan. 19. Oliver Haimson, assistant professor of information at School of Information, said the stakes are high not