From belongingness to reduced loneliness: the roles of participation intensity and self-esteem in Anime, Comic & Games communities by Yixiao Lu
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Expert on online communication @thorstenquandt.bsky.social aims to use his ERC grant to discover how online groups function, how their values can break down and how they can create a toxic, dangerous community.
#NoToHate @uni-muenster.de 👇 buff.ly/A4EIvdN
Salesforce has an internal dashboard which tracks each team’s use of AI with the company also handing out digital badges that describe its employees as a “Champion,” “Innovator,” and “Legend” depending on the AI training courses they’ve completed, according to screenshots seen by 404 Media.
The conversation I have had with each of my kids: "if you *ever* run into a problem online and you think you're in trouble, you can *always* come talk to me about it, and if you think I will be upset about a choice you made just start out by saying 'I may need some help.'" And I will take that...
The leaderboard, sorted by executive and the teams underneath them, has a feature that shows users which employees have not earned the badges. “click to see who 👀,” the leaderboard says.
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Porträts 2025 Broschüre Zwölf Monate, zwölf Menschen
Online disinformation, cyberbullying & #HateSpeech - most people want to completely avoid all three.
But to fix these issues “someone has to take a look – objectively, & without wishing to have their prejudices confirmed.”
🧵 to find out more, on this International Day for Countering Hate Speech 👇
European Research Council (ERC)
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D.
From cultural to toxic capital: Algorithmic & capitalised toxicity in a platformised ACG culture by Liao, Chen, & Fu
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A takeaway for me is how Chinese right-wing social media influencers are monetarily capitalizing on moral outrage similarly as those in the west
If you think chatbots can have feelings and can be sentient, let us take you through the work of a Microsoft AI researcher who used the real time strategy game Age of Empires II to build a basic neural network using digital goats to prove that "we anthropomorphise too readily."
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Mike Masnick
And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...
Community-based policing and emerging informal systems of justice: Battling against the dark side of Twitch by Reilly Willis,
Adam Clayden, & Laura Polley
policyreview.info/articles/ana...
European Research Council (ERC)
this is, i think, the greatest thing i've ever seen
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
Our lab loved this paper when it came out as it combined two of our interests, technology effects and schmeasurement. Plus: Registered report, open data. We read it for our journal club and found issues in the Slovak sample that we now posted to PubPeer:
pubpeer.com/publications...
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D.
404 Media
Can community-based policing and the ‘Court of Twitter’ achieve individual notions of justice related to allegations of abuse on Twitch?
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Confusion in gaming disorder measurement (2026)
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Related: People I know IRL who know what I do for a living often ask what they need to know about online safety for their about-to-be-teenagers, and there's a lot of answers, but the thing I always emphasize most is: under no circumstances should you ever threaten to take access away from them.
Chris Boyd
Malte Elson
rahaeli
My recent video about the Star Trek: The Next Generation Screen Saver collection is kinda popping off on YouTube.
Hilariously, because there's a one-minute MIDI rendition of the TNG theme featured in one of the screensaver modules, I'm sharing half the revenue with Paramount. 🤣
First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
And a lot of you post the photos but put an emoji sticker over the kid's face or whatever: that is really, really, really not sufficient to prevent people from doing things with them you do not want to know about. Do not post photos of your kids online, period.
Abstract. Measurement is important for the scientific programmes of addictive behaviours. In the present study, we investigated the measurement of gaming d
I am one of those people who is *really, really good* at identifying exactly where and when a photo was taken from basic context clues (a skill I developed for human rights research and journalism purposes).
Trust me on this, don’t post photos of your kids on the public internet.
Faine Greenwood
People can absolutely determine the exact location of an image by analyzing lighting, shadows, landmarks, or natural elements in the background. The amount of data needed to identify someone—or even their current location—is shockingly small. Any privacy book worth it's salt explains this.
