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!
He was the biggest US warmonger for a very long and deadly time period. Today, we can celebrate that this dark age came to an end. When we drew this angel of death aka Heinz Alfred #portrait with @inkscape as #svg#vector#graphic we've been looking forward to this special day.
2023 Nov 29th, Kissinger finally dead after a century of his terror & US wars against human rights and humanity.
"Our findings demonstrate a dampening effect on perceptual, emotional, and evaluative processing of presumed deepfake smiles, but not angry expressions, adding new specificity to the debate on the societal impact of AI-generated content."
Das "Kolloquium zur Phänomenologie der #Digital Humanities an der FU Berlin" (#FU_Berlin) findet noch bis zum 8. Februar 2024 statt und kann zum Teil digital besucht werden.
Living in an age of digital distraction has wreaked havoc on our brains--but there's much we can do to restore our tech-life balance. We live in a world that is always on, where everyone is always connected. But we feel increasingly disconnected. Why? The answer lies in our brains.
If you're interested in the relation between #painting & #photography, Barbara Savedoff's short(ash) Transforming Images: How Photography Complicates the Picture (2000) is worth reading. She explores the relations between #art & the photo, including some fascinating stuff on photographic reproductions' impact on #arthistory, although the warnings about #digital photography now seem commonplace. But still its full of great insights!
Join us at @CCC 's #37C3 conference track "Sustainability & #Climate#Justice"! We're thrilled to focus on the pressing issues of ecological injustice and ecosystem collapse. If you're passionate about creating a sustainable, just, and #democratic#digital future, we invite you to submit your presentations by November 11, 2023. We're particularly keen to hear from underrepresented groups and those from the global south.
Publishing academic research in Open Access makes such a difference in who is able to engage with and benefit from it. Our Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies just hit 250k accesses - needless to say we would never have sold that many (expensive) copies...
It gathers a lot of data and interesting observations. Here are the ones that struck me the most:
📌 Generative #artificialintelligence excels in tasks that require natural language processing and content creation, outperforming humans in terms of speed and cost-effectiveness.
📌 Generative AI's efficiency impacts high-value tasks in white-collar roles, potentially offering comparable performance to humans at a fraction of the cost.
💭 My thought: in a scenario that describes our immediate #future, like the one outlined in the article, it will be increasingly essential to know how to ask the right questions — questions that help guide, interpret, give meaning, and make room for our humanity, starting precisely from the philosophical dialogue that should be continuously encouraged about and with #digital and #technology.
"When you’re tracked online, a tracker, such as a cookie or a tracking pixel, is inserted into the code of the website you’re visiting. These tracking technologies could be owned by advertising and marketing companies, government agencies, or other monitoring authorities. Usually the owner of these websites agrees to sell your data to advertising companies in exchange for whatever service the advertising company provides.
It is believed that your data is shared with as many as 70 third parties when a website has embedded trackers. Furthermore, Google has trackers on more than half of all online traffic."
@richard yes there are more, yesterday? I shared these in a thread someone else started
edit to add: I a pretty sure there are even more
"In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not. Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it. Privacy is about power, and it is so important that this power ends up in the right hands." https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/why-privacy-matters/
"When beginning the journey of restoring digital privacy, some people get overwhelmed with all the work involved, and perhaps give up. Don’t let that be you. Understand that you don’t need to do everything right away. Instead, start small and go step by step at your own pace. With each step in the process, you get more security and control over your personal data, which is a small victory." https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/
Out now! A new special issue in #Communication#Theory, edited by @markeis and @mss7676
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The special issue revisits #public sphere theory, asking about how to conceptualize public sphere(s) in the #digital age. It contains several great contributions by excellent scholars who analyze the role and future of public sphere theory. Find it here: https://academic.oup.com/ct/issue/33/2-3
"Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online?"
Friday update: with the help of @kingsdigitallab we now have an update to our May release of 22 pages from Alice Thornton's Book of Remembrances (2 versions - semi-diplomatic and modernised). The two versions can now be viewed side-by-side. This is our work-in-progress #digital edition using TEI. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2023-07-21-partial-release-side-by-side-view/
Feedback gratefuly received - here or at alicethorntonsbooks at gmail dot com
Our summer school in #digital#palaeography begins this Monday. I’m really looking forward to this - it’s the highlight of my year (and has taken me all year to organise!). We will be looking at lots of original #medieval sources and learning digital skills. There will be many toots! @medievodons