Dr Catherine Flick

@CatherineFlick
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Reader in Computing and Social Responsibility De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Visiting Fellow Staffordshire University. Co-I IGGI CTD, Future Virtual Economies projects. Responsible innovation, tech ethics, video games, crypto sceptic. She/her. (on maternity leave to 2023)
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@Floppy yay! When I’m at my PC tomorrow I’ll try to work out how :)
@Floppy hey hey, I heard you can migrate between instances, is your server accepting migrants? 😅

✨ Job alert ✨

3-year postdoc position, part of my PRODIGI project

> Digital tech & politics
> Causal inference and/or computational social science
> PhD completed or close to completion
> Starting Jan 2023 (or later)

Happy to answer any questions!

https://fabriziogilardi.org/resources/misc/2022-10-03-Postdoc-PRODIGI-Job-Ad.pdf (pdf)

I had an interview on local radio today about Twitter where I also discuss mastodon and whether I think it could replace Twitter. Not my best interview as I had a fussy baby on my lap and am sleep deprived but baby Alex also made his radio debut! lol https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0d6qmcx 2h08 in
Ben Jackson - 01/11/2022 - BBC Sounds

Livening up your afternoon with fun, games and conversation you will want to be a part of.

bbc
@prof_goldberg we ask good, difficult questions is how I usually put it!
@timolaine thank you! I’m glad you think so.

Some of my new friends here might be interested in the paper I just published where I used the ACM Code of Ethics (which I helped rewrite in 2018) to critically ethically analyse Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). I would like to think it’s fairly accessible to general academic audiences! It’s also open access.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666659622000312

@cfiesler @jesperdramsch I agree about small communities being easier to keep civil but even in its earlier smaller days Mastodon had a lot of challenges with it. The Battle of Wil Wheaton in 2018 was one high-profile example (and also an illustration that the lack of QTs doesn't prevent dogpiling)

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17801404/mastodon-harassment-wil-wheaton-mobs-twitter

Twitter rival Mastodon isn’t safe from online mobs either

The mass reporting and suspension of actor Wil Wheaton prompts the open-source platform to examine its moderation tools.

The Verge
Pricing out my own private mastodon server is going to cost less than renting that blue check.
@russss 🤞🤞🤞