Me & My Big Data

📗📖Our (@sjyates + moi) chapter is out! "Citizens’ Networks of Digital and Data Literacy", is part of our @meandmybigdata @NuffieldFound project! This is part of The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation edited by the marvelous @JulianMcDougall & @karenfw2.

The LinkedIn experiments remind me of the 2012 Facebook emotion contagion experiments. They reveal, yet again, several problems: 1. Platforms conduct experiments on us that have huge consequences on our lives. 2. These platforms' researchers publish in 1/4 nytimes.com/2022/09/24/bus…

As we showed in our report from 2021 - Majority of ppl don't post things on social media. They conduct what Dr. Elinor Carmi calls silent participation - scrolling, liking, sharing. The new @Twitter edit button is mainly designed for high profile users. liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and…

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First Google, then Facebook, now Uber - Tech companies have been using academics to lobby their interests. Academic reports & journals need more scrutiny. theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/…

Hello Twitter 👋 We are #EMIFund, and we support the fight against #disinformation online in Europe🖋️📷🎥💻 Are you involved in disinformation research and strengthening #MediaLiteracy and #FactChecking? Follow us to stay updated with our latest activities and #OpenCalls.

Just had a fantastic session in our SIAH Data Series 2022 from @Elinor_Carmi (@CitySociology) on 'Literacies'! Live tweeting below...

50% of women & non-binary respondents of colour reported experiencing online abuse since the beginning of the pandemic (Ripple Effect Report). This International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we know how important it is to factor in *online* discrimination.

Momentous news. 5 long years. The TCF is finally ruled unlawful. All data collected through it by Google, Amazon, Microsoft's tracking businesses is unlawful and must be deleted. iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enfo…

Thank you 😃😊🙏

Data citizenship: rethinking data literacy in the age of disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation policyreview.info/articles/analy… by @Elinor_Carmi S. Yates, E. Lockley & @AlicjaPawluczuk #dali_eu

Today 1-2pm: Dr @Elinor_Carmi presents a feminist critique to digital consent. This event is free and online. Find out more and register here: bit.ly/3qxIirq

✨🎁🎁Super excited to announce the Data Measurements Tool! An open-source project (coded up personally by me, @YJernite, and @SashaMTL) for building, measuring, and comparing datasets -- no programming required!🎁🎁✨ huggingface.co/blog/data-meas…

📣 NEW #LucySuchman + me on Eric Schmidt's (et al) new book and the political+ corporate agenda it's selling: it paints AI as inevitable & beneficial & too important to US national interests to perturb, while obscuring the corporate power behind the tech. prospect.org/culture/books/…

Thank you to the Guardian for publishing this opinion piece that I wrote. The title I had in mind was “To reduce the harms of AI, we need to increase worker power” which is then gist of the piece. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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🚨TODAY! #GigaNet2021 Symposium at #IGF2021🚨 ⏲️Join us from 14:00-19:00 CET 👩‍💻3 parallel panels!🧑‍💻 👋DM for last minute Zoom link! Below 🧵 on the panels-> giga-net.org/6-december-202…

Critics have long suspected that predictive policing software was racially biased. Today, we have the answer: @themarkup & @gizmodo analyzed 5.9 million algorithmic crime predictions. We found they disproportionately target Black & Latino areas. /1 themarkup.org/prediction-bia…