harrytdyer.bsky.social
Digital sociologist, interested in identity, social media, & LGBTQ youth. Course Director of BA Education suite at UEA. Editor of Digital Culture and Education
You can find other papers I've written here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=770gzPq
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If our students want to help, please send messages of solidarity, talk to other students, and write to our VC!
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Lastly, “Liv” admits that “white” is a “neutral” identity.
And again, Liv says that she sucks.
And then blames it on a fictional woman with an Asian name.
That’s enough today for today.
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She's entirely right. It's a willful blindness to representation. Meta are wilfully ignoring hard questions of who's labour they value.
The blindness is agential, a choice to ignore. A choice to look past rather than to examine. It's digital blackface and they only care now they've been found out
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Lovette Jallow said "Black models ask for equity, and instead, we get Black AI models. Black content creators demand fairness, and they create Black AI content creators. Black musicians ask for recognition, and instead, they try to buy the voices of deceased Black artists to generate new music"
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Fast forward 75 years and AI is sold on the promise of freeing labour and effort. But it doesn't offer anything of the sort, it just creates more ways to oppress and extract labour, whilst cutting out the voices of the people it claims to be helping.
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vacuum cleaner adverts in the 1950s promised their household tech would free the labour of housewives, but they ended up being used as further tools of subjugation for women. It didn't save labour, it just created more and different oppressive gender-based labour
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As always, companies like Meta use AI to extract labour and cut out Black content creators, coders, and tech developers.
AI is ALWAYS sold on the idea that it saves time, labour, & effort to allow people to focus on authentic creation, but once again a leading company use it for digital blackface
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Any one of these 50 albums demands multiple listens, dig in and soak up the brilliant music that came out of an otherwise shitty year!
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Highlights include a super strong year for punk, glitch pop, and female singer songwriters. Remi Wolf's album is easily top for carrying thirsty pop vibes that stuck in my head all year, but artists like English Teacher and Rosie Tucker put out some truly stunning work
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Apologies to the million people I owe emails to...but I'm going to get a glass of sherry and a mince pie, say hello to my loved ones I've ignored for months now, and sleep for a billion years. If I owe you an email please know that it'll be weighing on my mind all Christmas, but that I need to sleep
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1 - Ugly - Twice Around The Sun - Honestly, it wasn't even close. Since I first heard this in April I had no doubt it would be top of the list this year. I've gone back to it over and over, and loved this bold EP with every listen. An amazing progressive folk EP that deserves all the attention
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2 - FIZZ - The Secret to Life (Acoustic) - FIZZ dropped an amazing album in 2023, and became one of the most fun 'super groups'. Effortlessly cool and touching, this EP is an acoustic reimagining of the best of the album that is so much fun
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3 - Bon Iver - SABLE - come on, was there any doubt that Justin wouldn't deliver? This is a brilliant collection of touching and thoughtful chamber indie tracks from one of the best to ever do it
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5 - MICHELLE - GLOW - MICHELLE have been so consistently one of my favourite indie acts for the last few years, and this is a perfect example why. vibes vibes vibes
4 - SNAKEGANG - SNAKEGANG EP Volume 1 - just brilliant hip house. GLIMMER. into Bounce is just the best duo of the summer
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7 - Alice Longyu Gao - Assembling Symbols Into My Own Poetry - Alice has been dropping the best queer alt-pop for years. This is a brill follow up to her 2023 EP
6 - Peter Xan - Empty Space - a super confident EP from the East London singer. I think we could see big things for Peter Xan in 2025
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9 - Cignature - Sweetie but Saltie - just effortlessly catchy K-pop, this stood out as just pure fun this year
8 - Fcukers - Baggy$$ - just try getting UMPA out of your head! Just a very cool alt-dance EP, such a confident debut from Fcukers. Can't wait to hear more from them
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11 - Oddisee - And Yet Still - soulful and clean beats on this great hip hop EP from one of the best to do it
10 - Bryce Bishop - Needles, California - this punk hyper-pop EP has been stuck in my head since it dropped in November. Just a brilliant collection of well-recorded and raw tracks
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13 - Jean Daswon - Boohoo - 3 art pop tracks that seemingly didn't make the full album this year, but all three are brilliant, especially Taste Like Metal
12 - Maya Hawke - Clipped Wings - my favourite nepo baby dropped an amazing album early this year, & this brill follow up EP, both are great
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15 - Nieve Ella - Watch It Ache and Bleed - an effortlessly catchy collection of pop tracks from an indie-pop star in the making, her brilliant voice shines on every track
14 - Kaneyorimasaru - Namiutsu Kokoro wo Mochinagara - some of the best J-Rock. GIRL AND has been stuck in my head all year
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*Special mention - Little Simz - Drop 7 - as a huge Little Simz fan, and with NO THANK YOU being such a brill album, I was hugely anticipating this EP drop. It isn't quite as fully polished or realised as her previous albums, but it's a sold collection of tracks that's worth a listen!
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in it we explore their thoughts about respresentation and bias in AI, the promise of 'personalised' learning, the myth of AI removing labour, the costs of engaging with AI, and the agency of young people to opt in/out of AI.
Have a read now!
ai-and-education.shorthandstories.com/zine/index
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5. The ban marks a key moment in digital deglobalization - that countries want to flee back to their corners and make the world less interconnected. That in and of itself is a fascinating research trajectory.
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Rather than initiating conversations with young people about their experiences & concerns, this has just slapped a big old heap of shame on top & stop young people from talking to you about what they see online. It won't stop it, it'll just make it more dangerous. Shame on them for passing this.
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It's also so far removed from what the bulk of sociological literature says around children and social media. The narratives of 'addiction' and brain rot come from the same moral panic well that fears around D&D and satan, or TV and square eyes come from
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Abstinence approaches don't work, they create fear, secrecy, a black market, and exploitation in ways that aren't safe or healthy. That's exactly what's going to happen here, and those who voted this through should be ashamed of themselves.