The MI Colloquium presents “How Online Platforms Govern User Activities and Why That Matters,” hosted by #RUSCI Assistant Professor @Shagunjhaver!
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I am recruiting a postdoc at School of Information to work on emotion AI (and other tech that infers sensitive info about people)+ethics/justice/privacy. Remote may be possible. Review starts now and applications accepted until 3/8. Salary 65-70K. Start date May 1-Sep 1. apply.interfolio.com/141255

Rutgers is seeking a full time teaching faculty member (non-tenure track) to teach and manage staffing for a class with many sections co-listed in our iSchool's undergrad IT&I program, and Data Science major: 'Data in Context' (critical data studies). jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/220002

The LIS department and iSchool at Rutgers is hiring for 2 full time teaching faculty positions in data science - programming fundamentals, and critical perspectives on data and society. Please circulate! Review of apps begins soon, March 18. 🙏

After years of hanging out with Shagun Jhaver, we finally collaborated. Thrilled about #CHI2024 acceptance of our work on _bystanders_ of online moderation. We adopt a causal approach to study the effects of witnessing explanations. Super fun working with & learning from Shagun😇

Cleaning Up the Streets: Understanding Motivations, Mental Models, and Concerns of Users Flagging Social Media Posts | Montreal AI Ethics Institute montrealethics.ai/cleaning-up-th…

Check out this excellent guide for reviewing/pushing back reviewers on interpretive research in HCI.

I'm looking for research assistants this semester to work on projects incl. data collection, analysis & running experiments to mitigate misinformation

Ideal for third/final yr undergrads or masters students

If you are interested please email me your CV or DM

more below 👇

Deplatforming is effective: Although deplatforming increases short-term attention to the targeted influencer, permanent and temporary deplatforming both decrease long-term attention, finds Manoel Shagun Jhaver Bob West & colleagues doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

In our new pre-print (w/Shagun Jhaver Bob West), we study how 165 deplatforming events impacted online attention toward influencers (n=101; using Google Trends & Wikipedia Pageviews).

TL;DR: deplatforming (even temporary) decreased online attention

arxiv.org/abs/2401.01253

The third-person effect, the belief that media have more negative effects on others than on oneself, drives the call for censorship of 'harmful' content on social media. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…