Steve Wolgast

@stevewolgast
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Knight Chair in audience and community engagement for news
University of Kansas
Steve WolgastFeb 8, 2024
Pavel A. SamsonovFeb 7, 2024

AI has already been used to run scams, rip off artists, destroy search engines, and drown publishers under an avalanche of shit.

Now AI boosters found a new thing to enshittify: #UserResearch .

"AI research is better than nothing" is the latest in a long series of "bad research is better than nothing" arguments that miss the point of research in the first place.

#UXDesign #softwaredevelopment #ProductManagement

https://spavel.medium.com/no-ai-user-research-is-not-better-than-nothing-its-much-worse-5add678ab9e7

No, AI user research is not “better than nothing.” It’s much worse.

There is an invisible reader of every article, whose gaze counts for far more than 1 view, 1 read, or 1 “like.” That reader is, of course, the algorithm. Between search engines’ page-ranking…

Medium
Steve WolgastFeb 7, 2024
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Feb 7, 2024
The truth is out there 👽
Steve WolgastJan 22, 2024
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jan 22, 2024
It is indeed true.
Steve WolgastNov 28, 2023
Just published: The challenge educators face in teaching #NewsDesert issues to students, with @TeriFinneman
and @meg_heckman
in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. @AEJMC_CTM
https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KY9USBKPDWFWFG9P5XET/full
Steve WolgastOct 6, 2023

Musk continues to limit speech on Twitter/X. Another reason to be here on Mastodon.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/10/05/x-hides-headlines-from-posts-after-musk-claims-it-will-greatly-improve-the-esthetics/
#FreeSpeech

‘Borderline Useless’: X Removes Headlines On News Posts As Critics Say Move Changes Site’s Functionality

X’s billionaire owner recently claimed hiding headlines from news posts will help crackdown on “clickbait.”

Forbes
Steve WolgastOct 6, 2023
Manish VijOct 6, 2023
Steve WolgastOct 3, 2023
Six weeks after violating federal and state law in a newspaper raid, and three days after being suspended, the Marion, Kan., police chief resigns. Eric Meyer, the paper’s editor, tells The AP: “It kind of leads you to believe that there’s some smoking gun somewhere that everybody knows about and we’re going to try to get ahead of it.” #FirstAmendment #PressFreedome #FourthAmendment
https://www2.ljworld.com/homepage-news/2023/oct/02/police-chief-who-led-raid-on-marion-newspaper-has-resigned-official-says/
Police chief who led raid on Marion newspaper has resigned, official says

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past. […]

Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas
Steve WolgastSep 16, 2023
Show threadpǝǝʌɐɾ sSep 14, 2023
@stevewolgast that sounds interesting! Do you know if recordings will be available?
Steve WolgastSep 15, 2023
Getting ready, with Dr. Teri Finneman, to present our research Examining the Role of Journalism Educators in Solving the New Desert Crisis at the U of Cardiff’s Future of Journalism Conference. #FoJ2023
Steve WolgastSep 14, 2023
The Future of Journalism conference at the University of Cardiff is amazing. Attending a session on #AI in journalism. #FoJ2023 #FoJCardiff