NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it.
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Too often we emphasize the role of the individual (prepping, insurance, etc.) or the state (warning systems, seawalls etc). But we overlook the critical nature of #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - to help us survive and thrive during shocks
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1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
Very pleased to announce Who Follows Whom, a bargain, free to download for the next 2 weeks, looking at patterns of following on Twitter.
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The dominant driver of patterns of online attention, with no spatial constraints on who you can connect to, is...
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danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met.
But we're still studying social media like it's 2010.
We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up.
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preprint w/ Richard Rogers
Check out this Associate or Senior Editor opportunity @science.org
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Excited that the final version of my article "TikTok v. Garland and the First Amendment Anticanon" has been published. It argues that the case is a shameful example of the all-too-common tradition betraying 1A principles in the name of national security
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The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
