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Twitter has announced that they're providing more access for academic researchers. As someone who's been studying the ethical implications of Twitter research for half a decade I do indeed have
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A thread on filter bubbles, confirmation bias, design against misinformation, and social media content policy. Or: how can people really think that the U.S. election was rigged, and is it
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The question below is part of a thread that starts with an NYT profile of Heather Cox Richardson, who writes a daily newsletter with a huge public audience: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-b
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For years there's been a debate in my research community (social computing/HCI) about whether there is an ethical problem with researchers from tech companies publishing based on data only they
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"algorithm changes gender prediction from female to male when dr. is added" is so bafflingly bad that I am ALMOST surprised that such a bad algorithm was knowingly released into
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Someone on TikTok asked if I could recommend books about tech ethics and I have never been so hyped to create a piece of content in my life. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJV3WPj8/ Obviously
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Let's talk about the #MedBikini study (paper now retracted) and research ethics. Problematic analysis/findings aside (bikinis, really?!), the paper also highlighted data sources and ethics review processes that make people
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Hello, new tech feature, let's do a speculative harm analysis to consider ways that terrible people might use you (and maybe what could be done about it?): a thread.https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1273306563994845185 (1)
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so like... y'all know that fandom has a really long history of activism and it wasn't invented last week in Kpop right?: a thread sure, it started with stuff like
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I am going to distill these research findings into a set of concrete recommendations that are guaranteed to ensure that you, a tenure-track faculty member, can finally get strong student
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OK I'm going to weigh in on the tagging/content moderation conversation happening right now regarding Archive of Our Own. To be clear, this is me as a content moderation researcher
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