#commodon
Next month I’ll be speaking at @otago ‘Foreign Policy School 2023: Populism and Global Politics’ 30 June-2 July 2023 time to register: https://www.otago.ac.nz/foreign-policy-school/index.html #conferences #foreignpolicy #politics #NewZealand #Populism #Trump #Brexit #foreignpolicy #propaganda #disinformation #commodon #polisci #policy
Exciting 🔥🚨 moment at #ICA23 this morning. The upside was it led to a felicitous meeting outside with @couldrynick. @commodon #commodon
It has been a year since @thorstenquandt@twitter.com and me presented our bibliographic analysis of the journalism studies field at #ica22. The article with the full analysis has now been published in the 10th anniversary issue of Digital Journalism!
You can find the article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2142630
Publication date 30 June! :mastodance: :hc:
Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious
(Cambridge Elements in Environmental Humanities)
Open Access / Paperback
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/anthroposcreens/BC9EAF4970A7F3F2EF671B469B82F848
#AmWriting #academic #AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #Book #OpenAccess #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnvHum #FilmStudies #MediaStudies #Commodon #TelevisionStudies #BlackStudies #ScandinavianStudies #CulturalStudies #CliFi #Petrocultures #ClimateUnconscious #Anthroposcreens
to all aspects of social life, and the reinvention of government. Culturally, in this conjuncture, struggles for media representation, visibility, and recognition no longer index collective histories and political struggles but the triumph of the market where difference affirms the celebration of diversity as lifestyle politics, market choice, and the promise of individual freedom to maximize market options"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/533789
@academicchatter #Commodon 🔒 but LMK if you need a copy
#AcademicPaper by @josh:
«Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future»
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2023.2208619
Via: @salaverria
#Commodon #Communication #MediaStudies #Journalism #MastodonCulture @academicchatter
Good morning Toronto 🌅 🇨🇦 #ICA23
#RunningWithPresidents will start tomorrow Thursday May 25 #commodon
⏰ 0630 am in Sheraton lobby 🏃
(to accommodate off site pre-conferences, other mornings 0700 should work)
Feel free to share & join. Informal. Down to lake, lakeshore, and back.
What is @Gephi Lite? Who and what is it for? What can it do? An interview with developers of new #opensource web-based network exploration tool:
https://publicdatalab.org/2023/05/23/gephi-lite-interview/
@ouestware
@jacomyal @paulanomalie
@logisima
@jacomyma
@dmi
#gephi #networks #networkanalysis #socialmediaanalysis #newmedia #commodon #dataviz
The feeling when you have promised a comprehensive encyclopaedia entry on political communication and artificial intelligence in May 2022 and it is almost due.
Luckily virtually nothing has happened in this field in the past 12 months... 👀🤯
Crowd management (n=1) was a real challenge on the #RunningWithPresidents prequel today.
Luckily I managed to squeeze everybody into a photo 📸 😂
Looking forward to more lake runs in the next days 🏃🏽♂️ Join! Fun and social. #ICA23 #commodon
Follow the #RunningWithPresidents for announcements
Looking forward to #ica23 and presentations led by my fabulous #BostonUniversity colleagues, Arunima Krishna and Grace Ji! Please join us if you are available...
As this will be my first conference exclusively on #mastodon...hoping to connect with others in the #fediverse and at the conference.
@commodon
@communicationscholars
#commodon
#misinformation
#communication
#SciComm
#ScienceCommunication
"Hubert Beuve-Mery, founder and first editor of Le Monde, said he preferred fairness to an always inaccessible objectivity." (p. 9).
#Journalism #Journalist #NewsMedia #Commodon #LeMonde #Objectivity #ThePress #cafe #cappuccino
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@ICAHDQ #commodon @communicationscholars @Noshir @claesdevreese @KatyPearce @Chanders #ICA23 @ICA_CAT @PolComm
The @EU_Commission publishes its very first "European Media Industry Outlook" covering in 101 pages the audiovisual sector, videogames, and the news media.
#newsmedia #videogame #culturalindustries #audiovisual #data #commodon
@communicationscholars
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/european-media-industry-outlook
Have you ever heard the term “quantitative ethnography”? #academia #methodology #commodon #anthropology
Last call: DEADLINE MAY 23
Submit input for the new framework for vetted researchers’ access to data from very large online platforms (VLOPs) and very large search engines.
#DigitalServicesAct #DSA #commodon #ica23 #computationalsocialscience
💫 Impressive programme for the 2023 edition of the Media Futures Conference at #LSE (London, 15-16 June 2023), featuring, among many top scholars, @goran_bolin @Chanders @Andreas_Hepp @couldrynick @silviowaisbord https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/media-lse/Media-Futures-Conference-2023
#commodon #LSEMediaFutures @communicationscholars
Meeting of the awesome NRP77 #NewsRecommenderSystem project 🚀💫 at the 🌞 @UvA_ASCoR @uva_amsterdam.
Un #FollowFriday periodístico:
Ethical Journalism Network: @ethicaljournalismnetwork
Knight First Amendment Inst.: @knightcolumbia
Nieman Journalism Lab: @niemanlab
On the Media: @onthemedia
POLITICO: @politico
ProPublica: @ProPublica
Reuters Institute: @reutersinstitute
The Markup: @themarkup
#FF #Follow #befound #Journalism #Journodon #Commodon
@communicationscholars
We are 2️⃣ weeks away from #ica23 🇨🇦 #Toronto #commodon
I look forward to some of the conference theme sessions on #authenticity (how timely!), discussing #GenerativeAI, seeing early career scholars' work, continuing #OpenCommunication conversations, #RunningWithPresidents and much more 👏
I guess it’s time for me to ✨publicly announce✨ that in August I’ll be starting as Lecturer/Assistant Prof in Digital Media at the University of Leeds! I’m sad to leave my amazing Sussex colleagues and students, but really looking forward to this new chapter up north! 🚚
#phdlife #mediastudies #commodon
(Btw, if you have any recommendations about living in Leeds, let me know!)
Has anyone used Snakemake (https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/)?
I've used Make for projects in the past but haven't ever put in the work to learn it well enough to automate more than small pieces of a workflow.
Snakemake looks a bit easier to understand but I'd love to hear folks' experiences
Out today: I wrote a commentary for “Digital Journalism” on how Mastodon fits into the concerns of journalists and media researchers. As with anything placed in an academic journal, it’s a bit out of sync with the news cycle, but I stand by it.
[Edit: Looks like the free download link has expired, but I'm happy to share the PDF with anyone who'd like a copy. Just drop me a DM or an email!]
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/A947PKPMCVPH7GBT2N7G/full?target=10.1080/21670811.2023.2208619
Spot on summary of #GenerativeAI challenges in the (news) media space by Bo Bergstedt from TV2 #NAMS23 #media #journalism #commodon
🚨Urgent: less than 2 weeks to provide evidence on the data access opportunities in the #DSA ⬇️
To increase transparency and accountability from platforms, what should be the rules for #dataaccess?
#commodon @communicationscholars @computationalsocialscience @politicalscience
Pleased to see the biggest state broadcaster in Germany (ARD) open up its own instance and now an account for the daily news show: @tagesschau ! How about it #NRK #SVT #PBS #BBC ??? I see accounts and bots but not instances, so it's unclear if they're official. What gives?
:mastodance::mastodon:
Social media recommender systems classified as high risk in latest version ⬇️
One of the fun things about trying to preserve data from a platform like Twitter is that when your scripts start failing, it's honestly a tossup between blaming your own poorly-written code and the platform's infrastructure slowly crumbling.
Spoilers: It was my own buggy code. And a really silly error too - but it's working now!
You can view an archive of the "community notes" fact-checking program here: https://birdwatcharchive.org/
We don’t just refrain from publishing videos if violence because the public would find them disturbing. It’s out of respect and not to further retraumatise family, neighbors and friends. Wall to wall gore is also not how you best reach people emotionally and humanise victims. #texas #shooting #guns #shootings #media #journalism #commodon
@mariafarrell: "Why would anyone do the right thing from the beginning when they can take the money, have their fun, and then, when the wind changes, convert their status and relative wealth into special pleading and a whole new career?"
"Google didn’t change. It just started treating some of its insiders like it already treated outsiders."
"Allowing people who share responsibility for our tech dystopia to keep control of the narrative means we never get to the bottom of how and why we got here, and we artificially narrow the possibilities for where we go next. And centering people who were insiders before and claim to be leading the outsiders now doesn’t help the overall case for tech accountability."
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https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/ #reputation #publicOpinion #commOdon
How do people with #populist views of #science inform themselves and communicate about it? 🔬
In our new study, @mss7676 @j_metag and I find: Science-related populists prefer #TV and social networking sites, and are more likely to comment scientific content online. But they don’t avoid journalistic media in general, so they don’t ‘disconnect’ from science 🪢🔬
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2022-0059 #OpenAccess
#AcademicMastodon #SciComm #commodon
@IKMZ @commodon @communicationscholars
Hello, Fediverse! Here's our #introduction post:
The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) is a free online resource, featuring millions of pages from the histories of #film, #broadcasting, and #recorded #sound. We provide access to industry trade papers, magazines, Hollywood pressbooks, technical journals, and more.
Lantern, the MHDL's full-text search platform, enables researchers to query specific words or phrases within scanned pages.
We hope the MHDL has had a transformative impact on the study of film & broadcasting history. The sources we have digitized for open access, and the large-scale queries that our platforms allow, have enabled ambitious research projects and the production of new knowledge.
We look forward to sharing interesting content from our collection and learning about projects that use the MHDL.
Learn more about our history and our work here: https://mediahist.org/about/history.php
#cinema #radio #television #digitalHumanities #commodon #mediaStudies #academia #libraries
Happy World Press Freedom Day to all who celebrate (which should be everyone).
A fantastic list of press freedom readings from the National Endowment for Democracy https://www.ned.org/ideas/democracy-resources-center/world-press-freedom-day-2023-reading/
Grateful to see my own @themitpress book “Networked Press Freedom” among them https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262037747/networked-press-freedom/
#commodon #sts #publishing #universitypress #UniversityPublishing #pressfreedom #pressfreedomday #communication #mediastudies #academicchatter
Reddit researchers, is there a good explanation out there of what the new API / terms mean for us?
Go ahead and cancel your Netflix subscription in solidarity with striking #WGA writers.
But not until you watch #Transatlantic, which narrativizes Walter Benjamin's last days in Europe, among other related events. I've only seen the first episode but I can already tell it's a must-see for media scholars. https://www.netflix.com/Title/81473474 @commodon #commodon
Tomorrow (May 3) is #worldpressfreedomday
Free press is a human right. Free press is a pillar of democracy. Free press cannot be taken for granted. Free press needs protection.
Trying it here for the first time: academic hive, what are your top references for news framing of international issues/countries? @claesdevreese @sophielecheler @PolComm
#commodon
AI is not only changing journalism. It is creating content that looks like journalism. Important story on the rise of AI-driven 'content farms'
#AI #journalism #commodon
@commodon
NewsGuard has identified 49 news and information sites that appear to be almost entirely written by artificial intelligence software. A new generation of content farms is on the way.
https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/newsbots-ai-generated-news-websites-proliferating/
As part of a summer course, I'm teaching a few weeks about reproducible research workflows.
I'm planning on talking about Makefiles + READMEs + Git + file organization - what else should I include, and what are your favorite resources about reproducible research?
Now that I am done with grad school, how do I unclench my jaw?
And so it begins: Republicans launch "an AI-generated look into the country's possible future if Joe Biden is re-elected in 2024."
Presidential campaigns: meet generative AI ... 👀
#election2024 #campaign 🇺🇸 #BidenHarris2024 #generativeAI #commodon
I've been thinking more about how scams target the conservative elderly by using conservative talking points. And I've also been thinking about how conservative media makes differentiating between junk/conspiracy/scams and news super hard. Case in point: screenshot of Foxnews.com homepage. Is it news? Is it conspiracy? Is it scams?
#commodon #politics #foxnews
Saw this photo of 1994 Dodger stadium with very little advertising (h/t @portcitystudios) 30-years later, stadiums are named after corporations, are covered in advertising, uniforms have patches. Why such big change? MLB has always been for-profit. Was this a policy change? Why? Question for #commodon #sociology #baseball
When nobody believes anything.
‘If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer,’ Arendt wrote.
Check out the latest newsletter from Center for Media Transition.
#Journalism #NewsMedia #SocialMedia #Twitter #FakeNews #Musk #AI #ChatGPT #Commodon @commodon @uts_law_hdr #UTS #CMT
https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centre-media-transition/news/when-nobody-believes-anything
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist, my new book with @themitpress is out now! This is my attempt to intervene in how we talk and think about gamemaking as not just an entertainment industry but as a cultural field, built up from complex tensions between commercial and creative pressures and identities.
It's open access, and you can read it here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5572/The-Videogame-Industry-Does-Not-ExistWhy-We-Should
I wrote a long thread on Twitter with a bunch of excerpts which I won't reproduce here, but it's there if you're interested: https://twitter.com/BRKeogh/status/1648452116749643778
#gamestudies #mediastudies #culturalindustries #culturalproduction #commodon #gamedev
Reposting my #introduction, since I'm seeing a lot of fresh faces recently. I'm an associate professor at UMass Amherst, where I teach about #journalism and #MediaIndustries. My research focuses on media distribution and, occasionally, dysfunction in the adtech industry.
I also co-edit a book series on the civic impacts of media distribution for The MIT Press. Feel free to hit me up if you're working on a relevant project!
#commodon #mediastudies #ScienceJournalism #linux #emacs #zettelkasten
(3/3) Coverage on Charley Johnson's "Untangled":
a) "What's Really Happening When an Algorithm Makes a Mistake?": Interview: https://untangled.substack.com/p/whats-really-happening-when-an-algorithm
b) "Problems are made, not found" article: https://untangled.substack.com/p/audio-version-beyond-minimizing-harms
#sts #commodon #communication #mediastudies #academicchatter
#sts #Commodon #Communication #MediaStudies #AcademicChatter
AI systems fail & are going to keep failing, but...
- Which failures "matter"?
- What do they reveal about sociotechnical power?
- Who's invested in seeing & fixing mistakes?
I've lately been studying *failures* of algorithms & machine learning systems...a little thread with 3 resources if folks are interested...
So excited to be hosting the brilliant @djripley a/k/a Dr. Larisa Kingston Mann at American University @SOCphd this week.
She'll be discussing her new book "Rude Citizenship: Intellectual Property and Jamaican Popular Music"
The event is free and open to the public. Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-by-dr-larisa-kingston-mann-tickets-617757187377 #commodon @communicationscholars @commodon @bookstodon #copyright #music #bookstodon
I got my copy! This comprehensive volume will be an instant classic in the field and I'm really thrilled to have a co-authored chapter in it (with my longtime partner in crime, Diane Negra). If you're at #SCMS23 in Denver, check it out at the #Routledge table, or on their website.
#TelevisionStudies #MediaStudies #Commodon #OneMississippi #NewBook #AcademicBook #AcademicPublishing @academicchatter @television @commodon
I've admittedly drifted back to Twitter this past month or so. Network effects are strong! But I should note here as well that my new book is out next week, and this week I received my author copies and this was very exciting.
Details on the book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
#gamestudes #mediastudies #gamedev #culturalindustries #creativeindustries #commodon #digitalhumanities #creativity #labour
NEW: Reporting of my recent complaint to the #BBC on their “appalling” and “ignorant” #refugee reporting, from The National’s Steph Brawn: https://www.thenational.scot/news/23448455.bbc-ignorant-trying-justify-story-fake-refugee-footballers/ “The failure to use careful language and thoughtful analysis here is illustrative of a pattern of hostile coverage on immigration going back years, that ultimately helps normalise the far right.” #refugees #immigration #asylum #journalism #media #commodon
Meanwhile #RT is government funded. Somehow ‘state affiliated’ sounds less controlled and less certain relationship than ‘government funded’! Is there a ‘government controlled but not funded’ category?! 🤔 This is all unravelling faster than Matt Taibbi’s journalism… #commodon #media #journalism
#Twitter has labelled #NPR ‘state-affiliated media’. But it’s own policy still currently states that it does NOT consider @NPR (and the @bbc) to be state controlled in its definition of ‘state-affiliated media’. https://twitter.com/emmalbriant/status/1643419807025360896?s=46&t=3czCWs1yDKtm7GmMoLrmSQ #media #journalism #commodon
On April 24th, I am honored to be in dialogue with Ashley Carse, Juan De Lara, & Deborah Cowen discussing #OilBeach. 12pm/noon Pacific, Zoom. It's open to anyone & organizers will provide attendees with a portion of the 📙 to read.
(It's also on sale if purchased from @UChicagoPress using code UCPNEW, 30% off)
#NewBooks #STS #Ecology @geography #AcademicMastodon #oil #CriticalLogistics #Commodon @academicchatter #EnvHist #California
Important open letter from the executive board of
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research on Twitter's irresponsible API access policy.
Take away: It will "devastate public interest research".
Thanks to @rebekahtromble @natematias & team.
#commodon #twitter #API #research #dataacess @academicchatter
Apparently Horkheimer & Adorno time-travelled to Barnes and Nobel to pick up a copy of
@shoshanazuboff book then disliked it so much they wrote a new text back in 1972 to criticize it and warn people of its future publication. That's some serious commitment to #culturaltheory. #chatgpt #sociology #media #mediatheory #socialtheory #commodon
Looking forward to workshop with @rra next Thu 6th April 2023 on “Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond” at @kingsdh. If you're around in London there are still a few places left: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/14/infrastructuring-alternatives
cc @siusoon @anthropologist @__nate__ @jamessmithies @ayliu @dv #london #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia #fediverse #feministsts #infrastructuring #commodon #newmediastudies #newmedia #mediastudies #federation #interoperability #alternativesocialmedia
Congratulations, @TexasObserver!
I'll say it again: indie journalism needs Mastodon *AND* Mastodon needs indie journalism. ❤️
https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/110108854896576848
*Story re Mastodon's role in the crowdfunding: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/29/texas-observer-closing-gofundme
‼️Mastodon y ciencia: potencial y limitaciones.‼️
En este estudio queremos averiguarlo. ¿Nos ayudas respondiendo la encuesta o haciendo #boost? 😉
https://forms.gle/93kdXDc7XE7BdjCNA
#Mastodon #AcademicMastodon #ScienceMastodon #scicomm #histodons #commodon @academicchatter @academicsunite
Make it true:
Hannah #Arendt observed that men gaining #power in Germany did not lie because they believed what they were saying, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They were lying to state out what had to become #true in order to justify what they intended to do.
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#communism #nazism #postFactual #war #Russia #performance #FRPol #Macron #politics #communication #propaganda #commOdon #media #truth #agnotology
How important is trust in journalism and news media? Check out the latest newsletter from CMT. I even wrote a short piece for this one 😁
#NewsMedia #Journalism #Trust #Commodon #Trust #CMT #UTS #Journalists
https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centre-media-transition/news/trust-me
Hooray for pandemic co-authoring fun stuff via Zoom! Here's an article on the TV series Dickinson that I wrote with Maria Sulimma @marsul for a special issue of Arts, called New Perspectives on Pop Culture, co-edited by Daniel Stein and Niels Werber. This piece has been taking shape for a while, but it came together despite how busy and/or ill we've been, and now it's up online and open access.
#TelevisionStudies #TV #Television #PopCulture #CulturalStudies #Commodon #MediaStudies #Remix #Intermediality #Multimodal #Poetry #LiteraryHistory #Biopic #Dickinson #AppleTV+
@television @communicationscholars @litstudies @poetry @histodons
Great to see Dwayne Winseck and Sara Bannerman provide some expert commentary on the Online News Act. Hopefully Canada learns from our experience with the News Media Bargaining Code: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/03/17/opinion/canada-online-news-bill-resets-relationship-journalism-tech #commodon #mediaStudies