“We are in another crisis of research access to data” says Gabriel Nicholas of Center for Democracy & Technology, citing Twitter’s $4,200/month API, Reddit selling data to gen AI companies, & Meta’s ending Crowdtangle. “But this crisis is happening very slowly, and that’s what makes it really scary.”

✨Join us in two weeks, when Nick Seaver discusses his new book 'Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation’ as part of the #CriticalAI Seminar series.

🗓️The talk is online from 4-5:30 PM (CET) and open for everyone - sign up here: rb.gy/tvn3ao

Happy to have our paper on user attitudes to content moderation in web search finally out in CSCW proceedings! It's open access too (thx to the generous publication agreements of University of Zurich :)dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

I talked to Mashable and Meera Navlakha about the White House’s hypocrisy of signing a TikTok ban into law while simultaneously using TikTok for Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.

mashable.com/article/white-…

Confirmed: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram face sweeping fines after the European Commission opened probes on Tuesday into their handling of disinformation from Russia and other foreign countries.

politico.eu/article/facebo…

The US presidential race is picking up steam, as is the advertising spending on FB and IG.

Here are the Top 15 social issues, elections, or politics advertisers across Meta’s platforms and technologies for the past seven days. #Election2024 #UseYourVote app.polidashboard.org/facebook_ads_v…

Interested in digital technologies, democratisation and EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy?

Come and do a PhD with me and Gergana Noutcheva at FASoS Maastricht! It's a 4-year salaried position with the opportunity to design your own research project. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht…

❗️Scoop: Facebook and Instagram will get EU investigations into potential infringements of content moderation rules, the Digital Services Act (DSA), as soon as today, four people told POLITICO.

pro.politico.eu/news/179237

Recently, interest in Indigenous languages has intensified in some republics of #Russia . Communities appear on various social media, helping to learn languages and use them in everyday life. Daria Dergacheva globalvoices.org/2024/04/29/an-…

Always

So right now my chances to get another contract at the uni Bremen in 2025 is roughly 50%. Let's vote.

If you are studying online communities and doing discourse analysis or content analysis as part of your academic research, add @communalytic, our latest social media analysis tool, to your toolkit. communalytic.org

#SenseOfCommunity #SNA #CSS #ComputationalSocialScience

⚠️For PhDs who are thinking about jumping ship and diving into industry:

Industry isn't necessarily better than academia.

I have straddled both worlds. Here are 5 MYTHS about academia vs. industry:

Remember my article on funding intermediaries and Google-Meta's journalism funding programs on Digital Journalism? Well it's out in print & free to access currently, so you can download & read it :) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Organised by EU Fundamental Rights ➡️ #HumanRights
With David Reichel, Daria Dergacheva ZeMKI, @eikegraef European Commission, Eliška Pírková Access Now
#CPDPai2024 #CPDPconferences #CPDP2024

I am so thankful to my friends and colleagues in the academy in Germany. Happy I chose this postdoc, never mind there is no way one can be a Prof in Germany (or let's say chances are minimal). I love my work, my lab, my colleagues. Thank you. So very grateful.

.Maria Pevchikh's film has caused anger and recrimination, but it has launched a long-delayed and badly needed discussion. It's the first time the opposition introduced a new national debate rather than simply responding to the Kremlin. By Irina Borogan and me. cepa.org/article/russia…

Check out our updated Russia-Ukraine ConflictMisinfo Research Portal, a resource for analysts and researchers interested in studying the nature and scale of online #misinformation and #disinformation #RussiaUkraine conflict.  conflictmisinfo.org

Friends: I'm indescribably chuffed to share that my first book is finally done and out shortly!

'The Politics of Platform Regulation' 🔓🔜is my 6+yearlong empirical exploration of how governments worldwide try to shape tech's trust & safety practices...
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This weekend, the U.S. House voted (again) to ban TikTok. The Senate takes up the issue this week. You can read my thoughts on this, from a few weeks back.

btw.beehiiv.com/p/us-speeds-to…