Wohn, Hemphill and Roberts win NSF grant to study content moderation
Image from the NSF Future of Work initiative Thrilled to announce that, along with two colleagues, Donghee Yvette Wohn of...
Periodically attended to since 2009, this blog is primarily focused, as is its author, on discussions and dissections of notions of information in society, and its attendant sociocultural, economic and ethical implications, as well as the political economy of digital information, information labor, the internet, and popular media. Also under discussion are issues of digital (in)equities, internet culture, internet policy, the nature of digital information, information transmission and dissemination, information as commodity/currency, gaming, histories of computing and technology, and internet policy. A few odds and ends may be thrown in the mix!
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Image from the NSF Future of Work initiative Thrilled to announce that, along with two colleagues, Donghee Yvette Wohn of...
Portion of a figure from the Nature study depicting the transit of clusters of hate activity across and among platforms....
Pleased to have the honor of presenting at the final colloquium meeting of the academic year at UCLA's Department of...
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As of yesterday, my book eight years in the making is now available for pre-order. The book is Behind the...
Saving here as much for posterity as to share it, the following announcement for a position in Michigan's School of...
Pull-quote from The Verge article on Google's new AI tool to increase content moderation productivity of some of the very...
Yesterday, I wrote about the case of what appeared to have been a removal of a trailer for the documentary...
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I am honored to announce that I am a recipient of a 2018 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation,...
Dr. Linda C. Smith The following was written to be included in a memory book offered to Dr. Linda C....
It is with gratitude that I share with you the news that I am one of 31 recipients of the...
Last week, en route to deliver a keynote at the 11th annual #libtech2018 conference at Macalester College, I came across...
Interested in how to research ICTs, but finding it daunting? Nathalie Maréchal, of USC Annenberg and Ranking Digital Rights and...
Announcing a new article on the politics of commercial content moderation: Digital detritus: 'Error' and the logic of opacity in social...
It’s my great pleasure to announce the following event and related CFP. On December 6-7 2017, UCLA’s Department of Information...
On Friday, March 10, I appeared on PRI's Science Friday program to discuss commercial content moderation (CCM). Along with me was...
I'm pleased to report that, after many, many months in the works, my article on commercial content moderation has appeared in...
I am frequently contacted by press and by colleagues who ask me to define commercial content moderation, or CCM. In...
In a first-of-its kind case, a Washington state attorney has filed suit on behalf of two Microsoft employees who were...
On March 22nd, I had the honor of appearing as a guest on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin. I...
ubiquity75 "I had an empty shelf when I started this class and now it's full of games." --student in #lis9371...
At the hands-on workshop, Alison Macrina introduced Tor browser and other security tools to FIMS students, faculty and staff. On...
Ex-Air Force drone pilots, now whistleblowers, appear on Democracy Now! On Friday of last week, Democracy Now! devoted its...
In the spirit of making academic work, so often cloistered in esoteric journals or inaccessible behind paywalls, accessible to all...
Surplus3: Labour and the Digital A symposium celebrating the publication of Nick Dyer-Witheford’s Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex (Pluto Press/Between...
The crowd at the University of Copenhagen talk. My time in lovely Copenhagen has drawn to a close, after a...
Travel has taken me to two exciting and lovely locations in Europe this past week. It was my great pleasure...