Becca Ricks

@beccaricks
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Researcher, artist, technologist. ☺︎ Design futures w/ tendernet. Previously: open source research @mozilla. @hrw @ITP_NYU. she/her.
Websitebeccaricks.space/
Twitter@ baricks
Becca RicksFeb 15, 2024
media archaeology labFeb 14, 2024

REMINDER! We've got a hybrid workshop today with current practitioner-in-residence Becca Ricks! Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 4 pm our time.

If you're able to come in person, please do, but we'll also be livestreaming on our Twitch channel & sharing the workshop activities online!

https://www.twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology

MediaArchaeology - Twitch

The Media Archaeology Lab is a nostalgia generation machine, one of the largest publicly play-with-able collections of functional obsolete technology. Home to everything from a 1913 Edison Disc Phonograph to retro game consoles of every stripe to personal computers of the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Twitch
Becca RicksJan 19, 2023

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I have the incredible fortune of co-organizing the 2023 CRAFT (Critiquing and Rethinking Accountability, Fairness and Transparency) track of @[email protected] with legend @[email protected] of Tech & Liberty at @[email protected] . We would LOVE to hear your ideas https://calendly.com/meg_young

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/megyoung0/status/1616097556638961670

Meg Young

Calendly
Becca RicksJan 18, 2023

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To understand the information crisis in Brazil: it is necessary to unpack the participatory networked propaganda ecosystem where precarious work takes place, commercial media concentration, and how AI systems obscure platform decisions +

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/followlori/status/1615771723231543301

Lori Regattieri on Twitter

“To understand the information crisis in Brazil: it is necessary to unpack the participatory networked propaganda ecosystem where precarious work takes place, commercial media concentration, and how AI systems obscure platform decisions +”

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Becca RicksJan 18, 2023

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For @[email protected], I wrote about the information crisis at the core of January 8th violent attacks against Brazilian Democracy. From media concentration to disinformation at scale, like other democracies Brazil faces its own history. Key points bellow++ https://techpolicy.press/january-8-and-the-information-crisis-in-brazilian-democracy/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/followlori/status/1615771719964450816

January 8 and the Information Crisis in Brazilian Democracy

To produce an inclusive public dialogue that advances democracy, a critical analysis of media and tech is necessary, says Lori Regattieri.

Tech Policy Press
Show threadBecca RicksDec 12, 2022
"Design is integral in the process of making both code and policy understandable to all people; it can radically impact the translation of tech policy into software and systems." Piece by @[email protected] @[email protected]
Becca RicksDec 12, 2022

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Why Europe’s Digital Services Act Regulators Need Design Expertise

Claire Pershan (@[email protected]) and Caroline Sinders (@[email protected]) write that design is integral in the process of making policy understandable to all people: https://techpolicy.press/why-europes-digital-services-act-regulators-need-design-expertise/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1602308643201900544

Why Europe’s Digital Services Act Regulators Need Design Expertise

Design is integral in the process of making both code and policy understandable to all people, write Claire Pershan and Caroline Sinders.

Tech Policy Press
Becca RicksDec 9, 2022

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🎒🎒Applications are now open for Logic School 2023 year 2! Logic School is an online, community run, experimental school for tech workers looking to remake tech from below. It's stewarded by participants from our first cohort @[email protected] @[email protected], with support from @[email protected].

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/logic_magazine/status/1598306743674494976

Logic on Twitter

“🎒🎒Applications are now open for Logic School 2023 year 2! Logic School is an online, community run, experimental school for tech workers looking to remake tech from below. It's stewarded by participants from our first cohort @whyderrick @emilychaosays, with support from @xrw.”

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Becca RicksDec 7, 2022

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📣📣New release! “Parables of AI in/from the Majority World” is an anthology that brings together original stories about the everyday experiences of living with AI-based systems. https://datasociety.net/library/parables-of-ai-in-from-the-majority-world-an-anthology/ 1/6

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/datasociety/status/1600539324445081614

Parables of AI in/from the Majority World: An Anthology

This anthology was curated from stories of living with data and AI in/from the majority world, narrated at a storytelling workshop in October 2021 organized by Data & Society Research Institute.

Data & Society
Becca RicksDec 7, 2022

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hey, it's my official pub date! and the other bad website is doing its thing, letting me know that I'm #1 in "music appreciation," which is definitely what the book is about

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/npseaver/status/1600150620622966784

Nick Seaver on Twitter

“hey, it's my official pub date! and the other bad website is doing its thing, letting me know that I'm #1 in "music appreciation," which is definitely what the book is about”

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Show threadBecca RicksDec 7, 2022
@[email protected] @[email protected] Some of the insights in the paper were informed by our analysis of YouTube's user controls, a large crowdsourced experiment we ran a few months ago.