AwesomeAudrey
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Londoner via Texas. Owned by a dog. EIC at internet.exchangepoint.tech Comms lead at @prosocialdesign.bsky.social
We've added a new design to the library, rated likely: 👍 Adding Balanced News In a 6-month experiment from @jonathanstray.bsky.social et al. inserting news from credible, ideologically balanced outlets into feeds reduced partisan animosity. www.prosocialdesign.org/library/addi...
Adding Balanced News – Prosocial Design Network
Reduce partisan animosity.
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⏰Reminder! Upcoming Event.⏰ Join us to discuss our new report, Connecting Researchers & Practitioners to Catalyze Actionable Research together with members of the Expert Working Group who produced it! 🗓 Thursday, July 9 1pm ET luma.com/hkqnlr3u?tk=...
Report Roundtable: Connecting Researchers & Practitioners to Catalyze Actionable Research · Zoom · Luma
Academics and other researchers outside of industry produce hundreds of studies a year to investigate and inform the use of prosocial design in digital spaces.…
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Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.
And here, nestled among the coppiced oaks, we encounter one of the forest’s more elusive inhabitants: the common wheelie bin. Remarkably well-camouflaged in its surroundings, it waits patiently beside a walking trail, its hinged carapace protecting whatever treasures, or mysteries, lie within.
Are 'bang' and 'whimper' the only ways I can go out
📣 🚨 🪩 I'm delighted to announce "Funding The Web: a covenant for browsers, search, and people", new work from yours truly generously supported by D//F: ftw.fund. It's a complicated topic but it only impacts the whole web, so please bear with me a little! 🧵
Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
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What if social media was designed to support local communities? That’s the question @newpublic.org had in mind when they built Roundabout: a local community platform built on AT Protocol 🦋 We sat down with four members of their team to learn more about it. www.prosocialdesign.org/blog/buildin...
Building Roundabout: A Pro-Social Platform for Local Communities
A conversation with the team behind New_ Public's Roundabout.
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Join us for Pro-Social with @newpublic.org and the team behind their social platform Roundabout. We’ll talk to them about designing digital spaces that genuinely support healthy local communities. 📅Thursday, March 26, 1pm ET 🎟️ Register: luma.com/5vzxn9vn?tk=...
PDN Pro-Social. Building a Prosocial Platform for Local Communities · Zoom · Luma
At PDN we mostly think about prosocial design as elements that can be integrated into an online space to foster healthy outcomes. But what if you created a…
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You might think chronological feeds would reduce toxic partisanship, but evidence so far suggests otherwise. What does research say platforms can do? Tune their algorithms to dial divisive political content down. www.prosocialdesign.org/blog/do-soci...
Do Social Media Feeds Fuel Political Division?
A new study suggests that algorithms can influence attitudes toward political outgroups.
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New study: Researchers looked at a 2022 policy change at TikTok that added a regional identity tag, and found it reduced impolite language. It may be the first (quasi) field study that shows common identity markers can improve interactions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Digital Nudges for Civility: How Identity Salience Reduces Impolite Language on TikTok
This two-study investigation examines how identity-based digital nudges influence politeness in online communication. Study 1 employs a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate a TikTok po...
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This is my least favourite part of liberal & leftist discourse:
Bluesky has as much bad news as X but over here, we're against it
Hey! That's me ⤵️ “The actors extracting the most value from large-scale crawling are largely insulated from the costs it creates, which are absorbed by publishers. They must respond by restricting access in order to survive,” writes researcher Audrey Hingle
opendemocracy.net@opendemocracy.net · 6mo agoAI chatbots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it
DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
We've published a new report! Last October, we hosted a convening with Roblox to explore how researchers and platform teams can collaborate on actionable research to foster connection in social gaming. Here's what we did: www.prosocialdesign.org/blog/catalyz...
Catalyzing Actionable Research in Prosocial Game Design
We report on our researcher-practitioner convening with Roblox
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Join our Pro-Social on Jan 22 at 1pm ET with Dr. Kimberly Voll, CEO of @braceyourselfgames.com and co-founder of the Digital Thriving Playbook. An informal conversation on designing for positive, fulfilling digital experiences. Register 👉 luma.com/cn2727bq?tk=...
PDN Pro-Social. Prosocial Design in Social Gaming · Zoom · Luma
Social gaming, even more so than social media, depends on its users not just being engaged but having fulfilling experiences. That's perhaps why social gaming…
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Due to a windstorm-related utility power outage at the NIST, time may soon be destroyed
Social media has been implicated as a divisive global force — though scholars debate how much blame it really deserves. But a new review of 30 empirical studies finds it can also be used to reduce distrust and animosity across divides. scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/c...
What are you all watching today and why is it Die Hard? 🎄❤️
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
Taurus: Live fast, die young, and leave a deeply confusing browser history.
yeah i'm a cam girl (the cam is short for "camembert")
Resharing my post on Bluesky about my article about Bluesky on @techpolicypress.bsky.social in case you missed it because you were eating turkey or talking to your family or whatever.
AwesomeAudrey@awesomeaudrey.com · 8mo agoPosting on Bluesky about my article about Bluesky in @techpolicypress.bsky.social Composable Moderation decentralizes rule-setting, reducing pressure on any single platform and limiting attempts to “work the refs.” www.techpolicy.press/composable-m...
We're grateful for the @Archive.org and @WikimediaFoundation.org for continuing to demonstrate that the open web is the best web.
A colleague of mine introduced me to the acronym PICNIC from their other half who works in IT. Means 'Problem In Chair, Not In Computer'.
