Hossein Derakhshan

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PhDing on mass personalization @MediaLSE. Ex @medialab @Shorensteinctr + Iran Evin prison (6yrs). Wrote 'Web We Have to Save', co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’.
Hossein DerakhshanJul 28, 2023
Show threadKate StarbirdJul 28, 2023

Links to peer-reviewd articles w/ synopses provided by Brendan Nyhan

Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w

How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp9364

Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add8424

Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade7138

Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing - Nature

A large-scale field intervention experiment on 23,377 US Facebook users during the 2020 presidential election shows that reducing exposure to content from like-minded social media sources has no measurable effect on political polarization or other political attitudes and beliefs.

Nature
Show threadHossein DerakhshanJul 24, 2023
Here is an open link: https://archive.ph/YuqeD#selection-1695.0-1695.277
Hossein DerakhshanJul 22, 2023
I wrote about the consequences of physical fragmentation of social life via AI-driven platform personalisation. #ai #ethics #personalization
https://www.wired.com/story/information-truth-personalization/
What My Solitary Confinement in Iran Revealed About the Dangers of Physical Fragmentation

Online platforms and near-future technologies will exacerbate our physical and cognitive isolation from one another, somewhat similar to how our bodies and minds are controlled in prison.

WIRED
Hossein DerakhshanJul 15, 2023
The only time when non-whites are heard is when they are victims—or when they co-author with a white person!
Hossein DerakhshanJul 11, 2023
Most sensible thing at #IAMCR23 would have been to take all noon and afternoon panels to video format so people can sit in their air conditioned hotels to present and attend. Then in the evening they could meet up in the city for drinks and dinner in the evening. #IAMCR2023
Hossein DerakhshanMay 3, 2023
I need an AI assistant that reads my emails and tells me which call for papers deadline is within a month and suggests to automatically add them and the conference date itself to my calendar.
Hossein DerakhshanMay 1, 2023
MastodonMay 1, 2023
You asked for it, and it’s coming. Quote posts, search, and groups are on their way. In the meantime, check out the new onboarding experience launching today. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/
A new onboarding experience on Mastodon

Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider are one and the same. This choice is what makes Mastodon different from existing social networks, but it also presents a unique onboarding challenge. To make this step easier, we now have a default sign-up option that works with a server we operate. If you wish to leave or join a different server, you can do so at any time.

Mastodon Blog
Hossein DerakhshanMar 8, 2023
Why a blend of dis- and malinformation makes the most lethal form of information warfare? I made a case. #wired #disinformation #fakenews
https://www.wired.com/story/cctv-malinformation-iran-protest/
The Era of Faked CCTV Has Truly Arrived

Bad actors are manipulating scenes to cover their tracks, fueling “malinformation” that is tough to contain.

WIRED
Hossein DerakhshanFeb 24, 2023
Johan FarkasFeb 22, 2023
Important new study of the White, male, US dominance of communications studies: "We find that 91.5% of first-author CCE [communication citation elite] members are White, 74.3% are men, and 78.6% work in the United States." https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad002
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019

Abstract. A recent wave of studies has focused on the identities of communication scholars, quantifying the degree to which Whites, men, and Americans dominate

OUP Academic
Hossein DerakhshanFeb 24, 2023
Fo diehard constructivists, I don't think there should be any difference between human or artitifical intelligence—they are both based on endless feedback loops between data collection and testing.