this is a fantastic bit of #SciComm explaining transformer models

https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

-- NEW PUBLICATION! --

With big thanks to Jannie Møller Hartley, I'm happy to have a new piece in the Digital Journalism special issue on "Platformization of News":

"What a 'Platform Press' View Has to Offer"
Free link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYPZSRHR2GCBIWCFGTDF/full?target=10.1080/21670811.2023.2257768 (email me if it isn't working)

Full issue with many fantastic pieces: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdij20/11/8?nav=tocList

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨

"Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News" - co-authored with Jannie Møller Hartley, Caitlin Petre, and Mette Bengtsson and out now in Digital Journalism. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2023.2257759

This paper has been underway for forever (see: https://mastodon.online/@askekammer/110933209905553380), so I am very happy to finally see it published.

If you don't have access, shoot me an email for a copy.

I love the work that I do and the people I work with.

I hate the economics of this industry and the way our work is valued at a level that constantly tests the amount of shit we're willing to put up with just to keep doing it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/10/10/washington-post-staff-buyouts/

"Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34 percent — up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually — last year, which outside researchers told the AP is most likely due to increased AI training. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20 percent jump that's also likely attributable to machine learning." Via Tech Won't Save Us.

https://futurism.com/critics-microsoft-water-train-ai-drought

✨ New paper in Information, Communication & Society: Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings ✨

The article proposes the concept of multi-site domestication to capture how technologies can require different "taming" processes when used across institutional settings with different and at times opposing norms, rules, values, and logics.

#STS #MediaStudies #commodon #domestication #DomesticationTheory #Robots

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2255644

I enjoyed chatting with James Early about a smattering of tech and media studies topics last week.

https://youtu.be/3d90_8vR2kM?si=wKfIrGnUrHF9Y17-

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers