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Ori Schwarz is sharing his paper, exploring why Israel needed AI for indiscriminate killing & destruction in Gaza, how it impacts our view of AI as a technology of distinction or personalization, and why it must shift critical algorithm studies' agenda beyond bias and error. doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Professor Tamara Kay from the University of Pittsburgh is sharing her new book
Kay, Tamara. 2025. Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships. Oxford University Press (Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics Series).
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Each chapter explores pressing questions about media by synthesizing insights from classic and contemporary social scientific research, both quantitative and qualitative, with examples drawn from new and traditional media from across the globe.
It also features a new chapter on generative artificial intelligence that addresses its potential to disrupt the creation, distribution, and reception of media, including by supercharging scams, deepfakes, and hate speech, or by reshaping social relationships.
The second edition reflects the evolving power of Big Tech firms, the proliferation of misinformation, and voices from outside the mainstream.
