There’s something fascinating in the human ability of drawing connections. While #Twitter - figuratively - burns to the ground, in Iran protesters burn #Khomeini’s house. Iranian green protests are probably when Twitter got global recognition and now - many years later - in Teheran people are still fighting while Twitter is pointless burning for the delusions of one man.
Luca Rossi
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On a night train towards Uppsala where I'm going to talk about coordinated inauthentic behavior, what we know and what we can do about it. Taking a night trains bring me back to when I travelled to Paris with a couple of friends 25 years ago. Flights were too expensive and the night trains were a good option, today flights a too cheap.
Micah Sifry
Mathieu JacomyGephi Lite will be a lighter, web-based version of Gephi. The excellent people at @[email protected] have started developing it.
In this blog post we explain why we do it, our approach, the scope and the status of the project.
Check it out:
https://gephi.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/gephi-lite/
NancyGPTReminder that we are looking for one or more sociotech postdocs to join our group. Feel free to ask any questions. Deadline is Dec 9 and applications are open to people from outside North America again (phew!)
https://socialmediacollective.org/2022/11/09/smc-postdoc-for-2023/
https://socialmediacollective.org/2022/11/09/smc-postdoc-for-2023/
Christina WalkerPresenting research last weekend on false information on Twitter leading up to the 2016 & 2020 #Ghana presidential elections #ASMEA22 @politicalscience
Henrik ÖrnebringCool new study about information flows on Telegram: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2133549 #Commodon #Journodon #Academia
Linked in the dark: A network approach to understanding information flows within the Dutch Telegramsphere
Recent studies have shown that the stricter content moderation policies imposed by mainstream social networking sites (SNSs) stimulated the growth of low-moderated but relatively open discussion pl...
Michael Bang PetersenI have been appointed as an external expert to assist the Danish government's Epidemic Commission: https://bss.au.dk/aarhus-bss-nyheder/nyheder/vis/artikel/michael-bang-petersen-udpeget-til-at-bistaa-epidemikommissionen-1
The Epidemic Commission is the formal Danish authority on assessing the risk of epidemics (including COVID-19) and proposing interventions to mitigate epidemics.
This is one of those jobs where you hope that your expertise will not really be needed. But, should it happen, I am ready to contribute with behavioral insights on epidemic management.
Michael Bang Petersen udpeget til at bistå Epidemikommissionen
Sundhedsministeriet ønsker fremover en bredere inddragelse af samfundsvidenskabelige kompetencer i Epidemikommissionens arbejde, hvorfor Danske Universiteter er blevet bedt om at udpege tre samfundseksperter til at bistå kommissionens arbejde. Professor Michael Bang Petersen fra Aarhus Universitet er blevet valgt som en af de tre eksperter.
Fabrizio Gilardi 💬Twitter API is critical research infrastructure in many different fields
At ITU there is a discussion about hosting a mastodon server. It seemed to me a good idea but then a colleague commented that the #university seems often run more as a corporation than anything else. I think he's right and should we do this management would soon start being worried about legal consequences, public perception and, of course the cost of it in terms of work hours and energy.
A long way from the roles played by universities at the beginning of the internet.
A long way from the roles played by universities at the beginning of the internet.