Ericka Menchen-Trevino

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I am interested in creating computational methods & political communication. Ph.D. Northwestern Media, Technology & Society program, previously at Erasmus University Rotterdam and American University, Washington D.C., currently in Chicago, personal website: https://erickaakcire.github.io/
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoNov 7, 2024
Electronic Frontier FoundationNov 7, 2024
Every time policymakers or private companies tried to undermine your rights online during the last Trump administration, we were there. In preparation for the next four years, here’s just some of the groundwork we’ve already laid: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024-us-election-over-eff-ready-whats-next
The 2024 U.S. Election is Over. EFF is Ready for What's Next.

The dust of the U.S. election is settling, and we want you to know that EFF is ready for whatever’s next. Our mission to ensure that technology serves you—rather than silencing, tracking, or oppressing you—does not change. Some of what’s to come will be in uncharted territory. But we have been preparing for whatever this future brings for a long time. EFF is at its best when the stakes are high.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoAug 16, 2024

The FTC is clamping down on fake online reviews, which is good, but it is just getting to this now?

https://www.engadget.com/general/the-ftc-finalizes-its-rules-clamping-down-on-fake-online-reviews-191339646.html?ref=platformer.news

The FTC finalizes its rules clamping down on fake online reviews

The Federal Trade Commission passed new rules regarding fake online comments and testimonials for products and services.

Engadget
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoJul 31, 2024
Sharon MachlisJul 8, 2024

If like me you are (sadly) not in Salzburg for the #useR2024 conference, you can still watch all the presentations from last week's virtual, pre-in-real-life useR conference!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL77T87Q0eoJhsC203plZ1H4p21AGrM9rl

#rstats @rstats

useR! 2024 - Online talks

YouTube
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoJul 31, 2024
Fabio GigliettoJul 9, 2024
Meta is discontinuing CrowdTangle, as reported by the Columbia Journalism Review at https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/meta-is-getting-rid-of-crowdtangle.php. The CrowdTangle API has been unavailable, showing a '503 Service Unavailable' error since July 5, which is a month before the planned shutdown
Meta Is Getting Rid of CrowdTangle—and Its Replacement Isn’t as Transparent or Accessible

The social media monitoring tool, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear as elections take place worldwide

Columbia Journalism Review
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoJul 31, 2024
Show threadWolfie ChristlJul 31, 2024

Microsoft states that some intrusive pre-built reports that expose worker metrics are not available in Germany. I wonder why? Perhaps because of the stronger German workplace data protection laws?

I think that Microsoft should generally remove individual-level metrics and filters from its reports, including from the 'predictive work duration' report.

Ericka Menchen-TrevinoMay 29, 2024
virginia partridgeMay 28, 2024
I had a wonderful time at the ACM Web Science Conference in Stuttgart last week, presenting work with @antisomniac, @ethanz and some other folks who aren't on fediverse on the modeling approaches behind https://redditmap.social/, a joint project with https://publicinfrastructure.org/. You can read our paper "Here Be Livestreams: Trade-offs in Creating Temporal Maps of Reddit" at https://doi.org/10.1145/3614419.3643999.
Reddit Map

Reddit Map is an open-source tool that lets you navigate Reddit data by displaying clusters of communities with overlapping community members.

Reddit Map
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoApr 12, 2024
I wrote a quick tutorial to help people save time entering events onto a calendar. You need a ChatGPT 4 subscription to do this for now, but I'm sure you will be able to do this on other systems (and even more easily) soon. https://erickaakcire.medium.com/use-ai-to-quickly-import-a-paper-or-pdf-schedule-to-your-calendar-app-c6a43940118e
Use AI to Quickly Import a Paper or PDF Schedule to Your Calendar App

Upload a photo, screenshot, or PDF of a schedule to ChatGPT 4, ask it to create a calendar file, and upload it to your calendar. Bam!

Medium
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoFeb 15, 2024
Show threadBen WaberFeb 15, 2024
Next was a fantastic talk by @mako on the lifecycles of peer-produced knowledge commons at CITP. Mako examines the evolution of different Wikipedia communities, revealing fascinating growth and decline dynamics and relating them to the openness of the platform. He then goes into why absolute openness often becomes undesirable, but the partial closure has some negative effects. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80KLt-ec6ic (8/9) #wikipedia
CITP Seminar: Mako Hill - Lifecycles of Peer-Produced Knowledge Commons

YouTube
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoSep 12, 2023
Kendra AlbertSep 11, 2023
In case you are wondering how usage of AI and consent is going, I just was in a 12 person working group meeting where 4 people who were not there had "AI" transcription/note-taking services join without any sort of warning beforehand.
Ericka Menchen-TrevinoSep 12, 2023
Free Software FoundationSep 12, 2023
Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act now to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice: https://u.fsf.org/40a #EndDRM #Enshittification #Google #WebStandards #DefectiveByDesign