Show threadArek Bekiersz de KornyátJan 1, 2023

@futurebird Yep. One of the reasons I’ll never run a #Mastodon instance - although I’d love to. #Moderation is hard. From what admins say & write here, it is very hard..

Of course other reasons exist, such as #EU privacy laws (#GDPR / RODO), US copyright laws and.. lack of enough money for the physical part of running an instance, that is: hosting, bandwidth, etc. These’re expensive too!

I invite You to take a look at other videos from #Informed22 , that they released on #Vimeo 💙

Center for Media Engagement UTDec 3, 2022

"The online sphere and social media have allowed for the amplification and reach of conspiracy-oriented content in a way that we've never seen before," says @[email protected] about why research on online conspiracy is so important at
@[email protected]
#Informed22

https://vimeo.com/776442841?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=430486

Session 5 - HOW THE CULTURE WARS BECAME THE CONTENT WARS

Vimeo
T.L. TaylorNov 30, 2022
Thought I’d go ahead and drop a link to this piece I wrote for Knight last year on why folks who are concerned about socio-technical systems, platforms, and social media should put games on their radar: https://knightfoundation.org/games-matter/ #Informed22
Games Matter

Before Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and all the other platforms that we now umbrella under the term “social media,” sites for…

Knight Foundation
Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Nov 30, 2022
#informed22 Tim Wu on how market concentration affects livelihoods: If your job depends on one single employer... Think about a nurse in a small town where hospitals consolidate. What are they're going to do? You could define lack of freedom as having no answer to that question.
Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Nov 30, 2022
Last panel of #informed22 with @pluralistic & HW's Tim Wu.
Tim Wu: What democratic institutions don't deliver, people become cinical. This is the real danger. People start wondering who is going to be the strong man coming to fix this for us. (Paraphrasing).
Show threadRichard ReismanNov 30, 2022
And the ghost of @[email protected] on how social media create a new level of reflexivity making all of this essential to manage better and with technical tools that we shape, as they shape us (as #Informed22 seeks) is summoned here:
https://techpolicy.press/understanding-social-media-an-increasingly-reflexive-extension-of-humanity/
Understanding Social Media: An Increasingly Reflexive Extension of Humanity

Richard Reisman and Chris Riley argue social technologies can bring positive new dynamics into human interaction.

Tech Policy Press
T.L. TaylorNov 30, 2022
Another raises the issue if the challenges of studying multiple spaces and raises it as something that has to be tackled and again I’m “yes and” in that many of us have been doing this for decades 😉 #Informed22
Richard ReismanNov 30, 2022
At #Informed22, @[email protected]'s comments now on democracy and delegation of user choice and communities/institutions are expanded here in @[email protected], and the earlier parts of this series (H/T @[email protected]):
https://techpolicy.press/contending-for-democracy-on-social-media-and-beyond/
Contending for Democracy on Social Media and Beyond

This is the fourth in a series of related essays by Richard Reisman and Christopher Riley.

Tech Policy Press
T.L. TaylorNov 30, 2022
I appreciate one of the speakers calling for social scientists to start paying attention to platforms other than Twitter but it’s critical to note there are folks already doing this and it would have been a nice gesture to nod to them. #Informed22
T.L. TaylorNov 30, 2022
“People don’t just lose trust, they place it somewhere else.” - Danielle Brown #Informed22