Ulrike Klinger

@ulrikeklinger
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Professor for Digital Democracy at European New School of Digital Studies

Associated Researcher at Weizenbaum Institute Berlin

Technology & Democracy. Foodie. Traveller. Views are my own.

ulrikeklinger.de

Webseitehttps://www.ulrikeklinger.de

Truly honored to be among the 2024 Thomas Mann Fellows with a project on election denialism in the European and US elections.

California, I'll be back!

https://www.vatmh.org/de/tmh-mission-statement-de.html

Mission Statement - VATMH (de)

Fake News auf der Tagesordnung: glauben oder nicht? Diskussion anlässlich der Gründung des tschechoslowakischen Rundfunks vor 100 Jahren - Berlin.de

One of the more interesting work days: touching Moon and Mars, meteorites that are 4.5 billion years old, discussing asteroid impacts, the hazards of alien microbes, and what it means for society and communication - with our Einstein Circle, exoeinstein.userpage.fu-berlin.de

„That our system allows wealth to be turned into a weapon to nuke things of broad societal value is one hard lesson we should take away from the wreckage of downed turquoise feathers.“

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/

TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

Elon made me angry so I developed a free "For You" Feed for Mastodon. It uses a very simple customizable algorithm that includes your feed but also top posts from multiple other instances. It favours accounts that were reblogged multiple times in your feed, or accounts you interacted with in the past.

Its still in early development, but if you are aware of the risks of trying out late night software you can try it here:
https://fedifeed.herokuapp.com

Also the code is here:
https://github.com/pkreissel/fedifeed/tree/main

React Django App

Happy weekend, everyone 😎

Beyond thrilled to keynote at the Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica annual conference 2023 in Torino👇

📢 #CfP Beyond digital political communication: platforms, algorithm and automation
📅9-10 June, Turin
Proposal submission: April 4

https://compol.it/eventi/convegno/convegno-2023/

#commodon #polcom

Convegno 2023

Convegno AssoComPol 2023Beyond digital political communication: platforms, algorithm and automationConvegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica (AssoComPol)Torino | Università di T…

AssoComPol
Frankfurt's notion of bullshit aligns almost perfectly with ChatGPT and the likes are generating. A large language model neither knows the factual validity of its output — there is no underlying knowledge model against which its text strings are compared — nor is it programmed to care.

„So zeigt sich das „Netzwerk Wissenschaftsfreiheit“ weniger als freiheitsliebend, sondern als durchaus mächtige Lobbygruppe von Lehrstuhlinhaber*innen, die ein aggressives Agitieren gegen Gender Studies, Queer Theory und Rassismusforschung zum Arbeitsschwerpunkt erhoben haben.“

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/das-beleidigungsnetzwerk-der-verein-der-pobelnden-professoren-9390224.html #wissenschaft

Zoff um Genderforschung: Verunglimpfen, polemisieren, eskalieren

Das „Netzwerk Wissenschaftsfreiheit“ fordert „respektvolle Debatten“. Doch wer dem Verein widerspricht, wird als „unprofessionell“, „selbstmitleidig“ und „vulgärrassistisch“ diffamiert. Ein Gastbeitrag.

Der Tagesspiegel

Ramifications in #Nature of the paid researchers #dataaccess to #TwitterAPI (if it ever happens...): project continuity, health risks, exacerbated inequalities, lack of EU code and #DSA compliance. And reflections on our over-reliance on #twitter to start with...

Including quotes by 🙋

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00460-z

Researchers scramble as Twitter plans to end free data access

A controversial policy change threatens to upend large social-media studies.