Congratulations to @sina_jb! After being a valued colleague at the @IKMZ for many years, she takes a professorship for #Digital#Communication and #Datafication at the Department of Communication and Media #Research (DCM) at the University of Fribourg. She will also become Director of the Institute for Digital Communication and #Media#Innovation 👏🏻
Sina, we'll miss you – and wish you a smooth start in your new position in February '24!
The investigation I've been waiting for (including a nice visualisation):
A breakdown of all complaints filed against bloggers and musicians by Ekaterina Mizulina (Safe Internet League) - from formal complaints to social media posts - and what happened next.
Does anyone have any references for interpretive social science(ish) papers that use public comments (as in a federal register) as data? Or perhaps any methods papers that address using public comments? (Have I asked this already?) TIA!
Interesting investigation by Novaya Gazeta Europe demonstrating that, of the 1.3 million pro-war Russian social media posts (VK) they analysed, almost half were copy-pasted, and the majority were posted by state employees.
The findings are not surprising given what we know about Russian online information manipulation. Nonetheless, it's yet another cautionary message to not interpret Russian social media posts as authentic speech.
Just listened to a very interesting talk on Linux & IBM, excavating the corporate underwriting of #FOSS development, by Davide Carpano at UCSD Science Studies. This is a published companion piece, "Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source"
At this time of #Thanksgiving in the US, I am grateful for the work of #RosalynnCarter on behalf of our country and humanity. I am also grateful for the work of my colleagues whose research illuminates these important actors. In my November Director's Letter for Boston University's Communication Research Center, I turn to the expertise of Dr. Tammy R. Vigil in paying homage to former #FirstLady.
Very grateful to receive the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Early Career Award for my research on the visible and invisible mechanisms of information control in authoritarian states
Such awards tend to reinforce the idea of 'individual excellence' in academic research and push collaboration to the background. I'm immensely grateful to my co-authors, collaborators and network.
The best research emerges when we think together #TeamScience
Wow, #Commodon, are you tracking what happened at #NCA? (Are any of you still here??) Apparently the conf theme was "freedom" but the org's leadership canceled a presidential address by Prof. Walid Afifi because he was going to endorse Palestinian freedom?
Wow, #Commodon, are you tracking what happened at #NCA? (Are any of you still here??) Apparently the conf theme was "freedom" but the org's leadership canceled a presidential address by Prof. Walid Afifi because he was going to endorse Palestinian freedom? @academicchatter
"Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, & developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality.. Narratives about "equalizing" potential of digital tech ignore circumstances that create such inequality as well as potentially violent role of tech in their lives"
In Defense of Solidarity & Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
"Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality... In this book, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an idealized, female economic figure..."
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South
It's official: Tremendously looking forward to being part of the ARM consortium which has received Horizon funding to comparatively study authoritarian states' suppression of information as a part of their foreign policy and towards diasporas in Europe. I'll lead the Work Package on Russia.
Over the past year, I've reviewed a worrying number of articles on Russian media that seek to whitewash Russian media censorship as 'normal' or demonstrate it does not exist. This is done through strategic research design choices, selective lit review, and misrepresentation. Some thoughts in the thread below.
The papers are submitted to reputable journals and look good enough to be sent out for review. Without knowledge of the Russian context, a reviewer may not notice. Here are some red flags that a paper may be problematic (and, in any case, should not be published as is):