jeremyfreeseYour chance to prove that mastodon has a hive mind too, even on a Sunday: any recommendations for readings@on/connected to social network analysis for a seminar of first-year students?
Melanie Green
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Communication professor and social psychologist studying narrative persuasion, women in science, and a bit of social media :)
Kate StarbirdUnsettling to watch Bolsonaro's supporters, motivated by election lies, invading government buildings in Brazil's capital today. Bolsonaro and his family members helped Trump push his false claims about the US 2020 election that led to the insurrection attempt on January 6, 2021. Not surprising, but still horrifying, to see Bolsonaro and his supporters continue to follow that playbook. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/08/bolsonaro-invade-congress-lula/
Vera TobinAre you a person who was around in, or knows a lot about, 1970s/1980s fandoms? I'm working on a project about spoilers and want to learn more about early uses of the term in its modern sense. I'm reading Usenet archives; do you have memories of earlier emergent uses? Please share! Non-fandom memories and leads also welcome, of course.
@skwinnicki Hope you feel better soon!
Ian Livingston 🌪Astounding wave #clouds surge over #Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains https://wapo.st/3UHDECP
#wywx #khwaves #KelvinHelmholtz
(Photo: Rachel Gordon)
Brendan NyhanGeorgia SoS Raffensperger tells the NYT he'll offer three proposals to change voting, after the latest Senate runoff, including moving to instant-runoff RCV:
via: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/politics/georgia-runoff-rules.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/benswasey/status/1601651166408212480
Amy Diehl, Ph.D.New AI, same biases. ChatGPT written lyrics: “If you see a woman in a lab coat, She's probably just there to clean the floor / But if you see a man in a lab coat, Then he's probably got the knowledge and skills you're looking for.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-08/chatgpt-open-ai-s-chatbot-is-spitting-out-biased-sexist-results
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-08/chatgpt-open-ai-s-chatbot-is-spitting-out-biased-sexist-results
Virginia EubanksMy political science dept is HIRING a full-time tenure-track assistant prof in a uni-wide cluster focused on #AI. If your work engages automated decision-making, AI, governance, public services, policy, social justice etc., we'd love to see an application.
@DAIR @SSRC_mtp #AIEthics #labor #TechnoPolitics #STS #SurveillanceState #tech #HumanRights @ethanz
tamaleaverAn important synthesis from Sonia Livingstone &co which reminds us that the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people is both contextual & depends on the individuals in question. There are no absolute answers, but there are better practices and ways to support young people!
"Digital experiences and their impact on the lives of adolescents with pre-existing anxiety, depression, eating and nonsuicidal self-injury conditions – a systematic review"
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/camh.12619
Francois HeinderyckxWho would have thought: @claesdevreese and myself are back at it: Writing the President's column in the @ICAHDQ newsletter! (Only as suporting co-authors for the actual, glorious, current President @Noshir, of course). And what topic might have possibly required such a joint effort? It had to be the 
in the room:
https://www.icahdq.org/blogpost/1523657/482010/President-s-Column-Is-it-time-for-ICAstodon
in the room:https://www.icahdq.org/blogpost/1523657/482010/President-s-Column-Is-it-time-for-ICAstodon