Mastodawn

Andrea Ghermandi Jun 16, 2023

Tom Eastman Jun 16, 2023

Twitter is falling apart. Reddit is falling apart. Facebook fell apart ages ago. Meta is a trashfire. Instagram is baloney. Google can't even search for anything you want anymore.

You know what website still miraculously works?

Wikipedia.

You should donate to keep it that way.

Andrea Ghermandi Feb 17, 2023

Loren Feb 17, 2023

i boosted this site earlier but i think it deserves more explanation. this is a search engine for images that shows you the copyright status for the image right there front and center and you can filter for them. for instance i grabbed this copyright 0 image of an echidna from there. and it even generated a citation for me: "Echidna on the move" by CazzJj is marked with CC0 1.0. i think this is a really easy way for getting a reference image while ensuring the person who took the image consents to its use! https://openverse.org/

Andrea Ghermandi Feb 10, 2023

It’s now official. The Academic Research track is scheduled to go down on February 13. On a whim, the #SM4good research community is left without one of its traditional pillars. Not exciting. #TwitterAPI

Andrea Ghermandi Feb 9, 2023

Matteo De Felice Feb 9, 2023

The European Commission has published a list of high-value datasets that public sector bodies will have to make available for re-use, free of charge, within 16 months: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-defines-high-value-datasets-be-made-available-re-use

Commission defines high-value datasets to be made available for re-use

Today, the Commission has published a list of high-value datasets that public sector bodies will have to make available for re-use, free of charge, within 16 months.

Shaping Europe’s digital future

Andrea Ghermandi Feb 9, 2023

Important initiative for all researchers exploring #Twitter - and social media data in general - for the #publicGood, whose research is threatened by the new #APIfees.

https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/

Letter: Imposing Fees to Access the Twitter API Threatens Public-Interest Research

Twitter's API restrictions threaten essential research, innovation, & knowledge. Stand together to protect the public goods from data access.

Coalition for Independent Technology Research

Andrea Ghermandi Jan 19, 2023

Techmeme Jan 18, 2023

Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew (Digiday)

https://digiday.com/media/publishers-lament-the-removal-of-twitter-moments-as-referral-traffic-dips/
http://www.techmeme.com/230118/p34#a230118p34

Publishers lament the removal of Twitter Moments as referral traffic dips

Under the leadership of Elon Musk, Twitter’s role as a traffic referral source to publishers’ sites is declining. Publishers mostly blame the removal of Twitter Moments.

Digiday

Andrea Ghermandi Jan 19, 2023

FionaGrayPhD Jan 18, 2023

Fast Fashion Facts:
- We buy 60% more than we did in 2000 but each garment is kept for half as long.
- Of the billions of clothing items made each year, over half are thrown away.
- The fashion industry employs millions of people but only around 2% earn a living wage.
- 60% of clothes are made from synthetic fabrics derived from fossil fuels.
- The production of textiles produces almost 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 per year.
#fastfashion

https://www.eco-stylist.com/why-is-fast-fashion-bad/

Why is Fast Fashion Bad? Here's What You Need to Know.

The social and environmental impacts of trendy fast fashion: garment worker exploitation & dumping in the global south. Here's why it's bad & how to fix it.

Eco-Stylist

Andrea Ghermandi Jan 19, 2023

Kate Starbird Jan 19, 2023

Excited for the publications of our paper (w/ Kaitlyn Zhou and Emma Spiro): Spotlight Tweets: A Lens for Exploring Attention Dynamics within Online Sensemaking during Crisis Events. The paper, which looks at sensemaking during the 2018 Hawaii missile crisis, makes several contributions, including: presenting the concept of “spotlighting” and introducing our cumulative graph technique, which reveals how audience exposure affects the propagation of social media posts.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3577213

Spotlight Tweets: A Lens for Exploring Attention Dynamics within Online Sensemaking during Crisis Events | ACM Transactions on Social Computing

In this paper we introduce the concept of a spotlight social media post — a post that receives an unexpected burst of attention — and explore how such posts reveal salient aspects of online collective sensemaking and attention dynamics during a crisis ...

ACM Transactions on Social Computing

Andrea Ghermandi Jan 17, 2023

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Carl T. Bergstrom Jan 17, 2023

This should be obvious, but having an algorithm that behaves that way is a DELIBERATE CHOICE.

It would be easy enough, for example, to implement basic sentiment analysis so that the algorithm doesn't boost content that you have reacted negatively to in the future.

Musk is playing it both ways. He keeps the algorithm that boosts inflammatory content and drives the online conflicts that draw views and clicks, while pushing the blame for this off onto the individuals involved.

That sucks.

Andrea Ghermandi Jan 17, 2023

Carl T. Bergstrom Jan 17, 2023

I've been speaking and writing lately about how tech companies try to shift the discussion on misinformation, polarization, harassment, etc., away from the systems and structures that are inherently toxic and toward questions of individual behavior.

This way they can blame their own users for any pathology and steer clear of calls for systemic change.

Today Elon Musk has come through with a perfect illustration for my future talks.

#socialmedia #twitter #ElonMusk

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