Mitigating racial bias from LLMs is a lot easier than removing it from humans!
Can’t believe this happened at the best AI conference @NeurIPSConf
We have ethical reviews for authors, but missed it for invited speakers? 😡
🔎How do older immigrants in long-term care use cultural-language translation apps?
As part of their BD project, @BridgDivides team members published a scoping review in @BMJ_Open, highlighting gaps in app acceptability, feasibility and equitable care. 📰bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/8…
Anyone heard about platform permission in digital ethnography? Do researchers need platform permission to conduct online observation? Should pilot-experiment researchers also obtain platform permission to carry out that kind of research? #REBcomments#ethnography
Revisit this 2023 article by Curran. Surveillance capital has twinned imperatives: to collect (data) and connect (systems). However, these expansions coopt inevitably fragile systems, creating vulnerable digital networks. buff.ly/3qetcJy
Check out this 2023 article by Hwankyung Janet Lee which studies the relations between data-producing individuals and their data products in #SouthKorea in the intersection of #surveillance and critical data studies #agency, #imaginary, #tracingbuff.ly/41yxacN
My new piece on temporal conflict. Ie how police and protesters manage the pace and duration of action and the temporal horizon and orientation in order to gain leverage.
Next article in our special issue on Political and Transformative Uses of Time @megafauna: Lesley Wood @lesleybikes writes about Temporal Conflict and Challenging the Police in Toronto and New York City. Please read & share 👇🏼👇🏼 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
On May 9 at 1pm ET, join psychologist Linda Michaels, @InclusiveMH founder Melody Li, @CCHPCA’s Mei Wa Kwong, and D&S researcher @livgar_ for a conversation about how technology is changing how therapists do their work — and the work of therapy itself. datasociety.net/events/doing…
I suspect a senior scholar has plagiarized my work during peer review. They rejected my submission but published an article with similar arguments. What can I do? This isn't the first time this senior scholar has plagiarized my work. Meanwhile, my article kept getting rejected...
"Selling Otherness on YouTube," my latest article, is now available online first in @IJCS_journal! I discuss "global CPM arbitrage"; YouTube's ad system rewards content targeting wealthier countries with higher ad rates, incentivizing creators to cater to those audiences.
"AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades."
Fantastic piece from Janet Vertesi in @techpolicypress!
techpolicy.press/dont-be-foo…
New from @elenamaris1, me, and @hibbythach: "Taking Back and Giving Back: Algorithmic Mutual Aid in the Platform Economy." Out in New Media & Society today!
This paper was 4 (!) years in the making and we are so excited to finally be sharing it! 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…