A long-awaited study:
Thymic Atrophy and Immune Dysregulation in Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38393459/

My latest for nature: AI's environmental costs are soaring. The new energy-hungry models for video, text, and image could create an energy crisis - and impact drinking water reserves. We urgently need action from industry, researchers, and legislators. nature.com/articles/d4158…

OpenAI did decide to put something there, at least, a kind of 'watermark'. But it is not a clear disclosure of 'AI generated', which is what we need.
Do you see it? 9/

Interesting panel at the symposium 'The public value of communication #infrastructures in the Nordiscs' about media's dependence on the tech giants' infrastructures. Tack Helle Sjøvaag + Nordicom for organising great panels, which can be re-watched: rb.gy/5xp9tc

GEOMEDIA PANEL: DIGITAL WORK GEOGRAPHIES February 22, 2024, 14:00-16:00 More info and Zoom Link: kau.se/.../conference…
#geomedia #karlstaduniversitet #geomedia speakerseries #digitalwork #geographies
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Researching generative AI governance? Submit to fabulous Joanne Kuai's special issue:

Geomedia
has an exciting online seminar coming up! Just tune in on Nov 14 at 1:00pm and enjoy the talk by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan on 'SEEING AND SEAFARING: HOW THE SCOPIC REGIME OF COMPUTATION WAS MOBILISED' +discussion with Visiting Prof Pablo Abend. Info: shorturl.at/ryCK8

The Map of Internet Territories has been circulating around the world over the last few months in its physical version. Now, the INTERACTIVE English version is also available online: cartografiasdainternet.org/en

study explores Austrian media discourses on #responsibility regarding social media #algorithms and social companions. Inter alia, findings reveal distinct perspectives on the agency and responsibility of social media algorithms and robots themselves. #AI doi.org/10.1177/146144…

'If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now: The major online platforms are breaking up with news.' nytimes.com/2023/10/19/tec…

Analysis: 'Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on #X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or Unsubstantiated Claims Relating to the Israel-Hamas War': newsguardtech.com/misinformation… #ethics #internet #socialmedia #contentmoderation #disinformation #business ht Noah Giansiracusa

Join us for Pablo Abend's inaugural lecture as our next Ander Visiting Professor at Geomedia #geomedia
🗓️ Date: October 24
🕒 Time: 15:00
After the lecture, we invite you to a delightful mingle with tapas! 🍷🍽️
Registration is open until October 17: andervisitingprofessor23.axacoair.se

Payal Arora (@erasmusuni) warns against careless use of ‘colonisation’ metaphor about the digital and the privileged West’s “pessimism paralysis” as she delivers her #Geomedia2023 Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta keynote on “algorithms of aspirations” in the Global South.
Chair: CorneliaBrantner @[email protected]

How and where can we still voice public dissent? How have the public arenas for disobedience, contestation and critique evolved? When did alternative media become „something else“? Is there still such a thing as counter publics? Join the debate! Deadline for abstracts Nov 30

Hi prospective PhD students, we still have one DAAD-funded 4 ys PhD scholarship for our class of 2023 to give away. Only applicable for non-German applicants not living in Germany > 1 year. Please ignore the deadline and apply to [email protected] asap.
Info uke.de/hsii

amanda meade The Guardian Cristina Criddle Financial Times Hannah Murphy Charlotte Tobitt Press Gazette Poynter Tony Elkins Robin Kwong 📖Read the Terms of Use of AI tools before you start using them, Natali Helberger reminds media orgs in this piece
generative-ai-newsroom.com/generative-ai-…

We present: our brand new German language Computational Methods textbook! 🥳It’s for everybody in the social sciences and the digital humanities who wants to get started, learn the basics and dive into automated data collection and analysis. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Was interviewed for this piece by wired:

wired.co.uk/article/prison…

Documents WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates’ location, heartbeats, and more.

Today’s research in @nature and Science Magazine on the impact of social media illustrates some of the questions that can be answered when we have social media data access.

The example is 🇺🇸 based w/privileged access.

We need a better, more equitable #dataaccess system #DSA