❗️Closing 🔜: 1️⃣ Lecturer - closes tomorrow 25 April 2️⃣ Lecturer - closes 28 April Apply now! 👇

UCDiSchool - UCD School of Information & Communication Studies@ucdischool.bsky.social · last yr.

📣Hiring: 1️⃣ Lecturer, permanent (job ref: 018437) 2️⃣ Lecturer, fixed 5 years (job ref: 018439) 3️⃣ Post-doctoral Research Fellow L1 (job ref: 018464) 🔜 Apply: www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... (search: information & communication) Pls share🙏 #job #lecturer #academicjobs #postdoc #research #UCD

Every current paid AoIR member should have received instructions by email about how to vote in elections for the next AoIR Executive Committee. AoIR is made of people. AoIR members get to choose them. Please vote. (Polls will remain open until 12:00 noon, U.S. Eastern Time, May 1 2025.)

Our paper (w @nadiajude.bsky.social) on Community Notes is out as part of the collection Empirical Approaches to Infrastructures for Datafication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... Thanks to the editors @stinelomborg.bsky.social @afrontiercity.bsky.social Jennifer Paybus and Signe Sophus Lai!

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Our TikTok data donation platform is finally public! We're inviting Australians to explore their TikTok data and discover their unique 'TikTok personality'. Participate in the study: foryouparticipate.net/tiktok/ Read about our project: www.foryouresearch.net

Jean Burgess@jeanburgess.bsky.social · last yr.

It's launch day for the data donation platform we're using to explore Australians' relationship with the TikTok algorithm(s) - fantastic ABC Story Lab piece here. Includes links to the project and platform so you can sign up now and help us track the TikTok election! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Kylie Jarrett in Toronto. March 21 4PM at the Faculty of Information/UofT. Infrastructures and Imaginaries: Reproducing Workers in the Platform Economy. Register here: forms.office.com/r/gKXwwgG9Rh @kylzjarrett.bsky.social

Can't believe book pub day is here!! *Trans Technologies* is officially published today! Use discount code MITP30 for 30% off today only (unfortunately available only in the US) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...

Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson: 9780262551861 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology. Mainstream technologies often exclude or marginalize tran...

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Submissions open until Feb 15! platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

It’s arrived!! Very very thrilled to receive a copy of AGE OF DOUBT - a collection of essays for our time. It hits the shelves in less than a month! publishing.monash.edu/product/age-...

🎤 Exciting Guest Lectures at UCD! We are delighted to announce that lab member Paloma Viejo Otero will be delivering two guest lectures at @ucddublin.bsky.social, in the @ucdischool.bsky.social, alongside Associate Professor @ariadnamf.bsky.social and Professor Eugenia Siapera on February 18 & 20.

Con @ariadnamf.bsky.social estamos organizando una sesión informativa en español para los y las interesadas en participar en #AoIR2025 — especialmente dirigido a colegas de universidades en LaTam. Se pueden registrar aquí forms.gle/fhqyrPdrRzWL... Agradecería que compartan la invitación!

Sesión informativa en español - AoIR2025 en Brasil

Durante esta sesión informativa vamos a extender una invitación a investigadores e investigadoras de Latinoamérica a participar en la conferencia AoIR2025 (Asociación de Investigadores de Internet, en...

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(1/2) 🎧 ADM+S In Conversation. #7. Meta’s Misinformation Shift: A decision to Ditch the Experts with @silmonn.bsky.social 👉🏼 open.spotify.com/episode/1bZr...

Our piece on Community Notes and its narrow understanding of the disinformation problem is now live on @techpolicypress.bsky.social. It is based on our paper on the topic, which can be found here: eprints.qut.edu.au/254907/1/Mat...

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nadia Jude and Dr. Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández find the “Community Notes” model –which combines automation with the ‘wisdom’ of user crowds– is ill-equipped to address hate-fuelled, harmful narratives often deeply entwined with disinformation.

🚨🚨 New publication with @eddyhurc.bsky.social, @antmandan.bsky.social, and @voddenlaura.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (thread below)

Submit your proposals!!! AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance Date: 3-4 June 2025. Bremen, Germany. Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology, Centre for Media platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

Amidst Meta's content moderation changes, @nadiajude.bsky.social and I have a new paper in press on how the 'Community Notes' model corrects narrow understandings of the disinformation problem eprints.qut.edu.au/254907/1/Mat... We're also preparing a piece for Tech Policy Press that we'll share soon