SO nice to finally meet @harrytdyer.bsky.social @estebanmorales.bsky.social (who took our photo - thank you!) and @devinasarwatay.bsky.social "in person"! This is where social and @bsky.app in particular can be a great ice breaker ❄️ #SMSociety

An international conference that puts the spotlight on social media & society will take place at UofG. @socialmediaandsociety.org is one of the first conferences on social media in the world, with a reputation for shaping the future of social media research. More: gla.ac/4eT3l0B #SMSociety

Six days from now, I will present my paper, 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗿? 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, at @socialmediaandsociety.org To examine how private Facebook groups become rehearsal spaces for embodied intercultural learning. #SMSociety #Affordances

With only 5 days left to go, it is my pleasure to introduce the #SMSociety conference chairs! Please come say hello #socialmedia @zoetanja.bsky.social @harrytdyer.bsky.social @markwong.bsky.social @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @estebanmorales.bsky.social Irida Ntalla @yingwenwang.bsky.social Yue Qin

International Conference on Social Media & Society@socialmediaandsociety.org · 5mo ago

Meet the 2026 #SMSociety 2026 Organizing Committee socialmediaandsociety.org/about/ #ComSky #SocialMediaResearch

Join us this summer in Glasgow and be a part of an inclusive, rigorous research community focused on real-world impact. Posters submission (extended abstracts) 1-1.5K words are due Mar. 13, 2026. socialmediaandsociety.org/smsociety-20... #SMSociety #ComSky #PHDSky #AcademicSky #SocialMediaResearch

Thrilled to see this chapter and book out in the world finally! The first edition of this book, published over a decade ago, was a pioneering collection of awesome, field-defining research and scholarship that was super important to me as I was working on my PhD.

Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...

Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · last yr.

Anyway, whether AI agents are a good or bad idea hinges on one thing, imho: If you search for, say, "congestion charge payment" or "loss luggage hotline", the top hits are often scams. Is an AI more or less likely to fall for those scams - especially once they start being targeted at AI agents?

If it does burst, I wonder how our administrations in universities are going to justify their all-in-no-questions-asked attitude to incorporating AI into every aspect of university life, whether needed or not, whether harmful or helpful

Allison Morrow@amorrow.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“The bubble bursting was never going to be one event, but a series of sentiment shifts against technology that has never proven its worth outside of specious hype” @edzitron.com

Just got home to find the first of two books I have coming out this year (!) has arrived! This has been years in the making, dreamed up during COVID, developed under multiple governments, edited during ongoing wars, and finished after one of the editors, Geoff Hinchliffe, sadly passed away.

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Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we...

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FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 12mo ago

OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN CONCEDES GPT-5 WAS A MISFIRE, BETS ON GPT-6

Under a month until the 2nd edition of the Routledge Companion of Mobile Media comes out! The 1st edition was such a brilliant collection that was a vital resource when I was doing my PhD, so it's really wild to me that a decade later I've got a chapter in this with the brilliant Crystal Abidin.

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

Very excited to see this book out in the world soon - a brilliant resource for anyone interested in youth research! Was honoured to be invited to add a small case study to this collection, and so happy to see it coming out very soon! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...

Researching with Young People

Undertaking research with young people is an expanding approach within education, sociology, criminology, politics, youth work and psychology. This book introdu…

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During the pandemic lockdowns, I began chatting to some of my colleagues about what an odd time the pandemic was for citizenship, and how education could respond to the uncertainty of the moment we were in. (1/4)

A very exciting day - not only did the new Madonna album drop, but (arguably more importantly) so did our Save the Date for #SMSociety 2026! come join us in Glasgow! CFP coming soon, we're really excited to see you there! socialmediaandsociety.org/2025/cmon-ta...

Excited to announce that the FULL PROGRAMME for the British Academy-funded 'Speculative Machines and Us' symposium at Lancaster University on Thursday 17th July is now available 🤖 ✨ 🧐 . Registration still open! wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...

Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI

We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…

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I see it in real time everyday. I study teenagers in particular, but we overestimate our media literacy. In some places in the US (most) we allow kids to exits k12 with nothing but a “don’t give your info to strangers” media literacy education.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Truly awful reporting here by The Guardian. The fact that 38 men in the manosphere thought that it was just banter and open debate shouldn't be reported as 'overblown fears'

Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests

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“The internal documents seen by NPR show that employees were notified about the revamping not long after the company ended its fact-checking program and loosened its hate speech policies.” Worth noting they are taking a different approach in Europe due to the DSA.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last yr.

According to (Meta) internal company documents obtained by NPR, up to 90% of all risk assessments (content moderation, aka "privacy and integrity reviews") will soon be automated. www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

I am BEYOND excited to announce my upcoming book, 'Researching Digital Society' is now available for pre-order! It's a comprehensive textbook that explores current research, methods, and theories for understanding digital technologies & their impacts on society uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/re...

Researching Digital Society

An Introduction

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If you’re into AI ethics you’re probably super excited about Andy Weir’s new novel The Last Algorithm! … if only it actually existed instead of just being yet another LLM fabrication. www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

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I'm about to head into a 3 hour advertising seminar about how to sell HE courses... So for no reason at all here's a brilliant piece about AI and universities. Everyone be nice to the Giant Plagiarism Machine www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine

Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

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On International Worker's Day @uea-ucu.bluesky.social began 9 days of strike action to save jobs & avoid compulsory redundancy. We have already given the university considerable savings via "voluntary" measures. Now mgmt needs to do the right thing & call this off. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1400...

University of East Anglia staff begin strike action today over threat of compulsory redundancies and lack of financial transparency

Staff at the University of East Anglia (UEA) will begin nine days of strike action today (Thursday 1 May) in a dispute over compulsory redundancies, financial accountability, and transparent governanc...

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Management could end this. Tens of people remain at risk and are undergoing a brutal process unnecessarily. Lest you think full on strike action is excessive for a handful of people: we would go out even for a single person. We are all safe, or none of us are. #saveuea #weareuea

UEA UCU says join a union@uea-ucu.bsky.social · last yr.

Why are staff on strike at UEA? Watch this video hear from our members on the picket line. #SaveUEA

"The loss of knowledge and expertise when staff goes lasts not just years, it can last generations." Thank you Alice Macdonald MP for calling for jobs and students at UEA to be protected. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk

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Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · last yr.

Cardiff University UCU is holding an EGM today after talks at ACAS led to the University withdrawing the threat of compulsory redundancies among academic staff as part of its cuts programme.

Oh, hey:

Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · last yr.

Cardiff University UCU is holding an EGM today after talks at ACAS led to the University withdrawing the threat of compulsory redundancies among academic staff as part of its cuts programme.

Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!

A group of researchers at the University of Zurich have got into real trouble after subjecting a subreddit to participation in an experiment without their permission. My latest for @newscientist.com gets the university's response www.newscientist.com/article/2478...

Reddit users were subjected to AI-powered experiment without consent

Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich were secretly using the site for an AI-powered experiment in persuasion

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