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🚨 New WP on online news consumption (osf.io/h3cn5_v1) 🚨 KEY FINDING: Negativity + identity language is particularly effective at generating engagement—and even more when targeting out-groups With @steverathje.bsky.social, @crobertson500.bsky.social , @jayvanbavel.bsky.social 🧵👇

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

1/14 Our current constitutional crisis cannot be solved by voting Democrat or by removing president from office- this is a problem that will persist until we fix our information infrastructure. Please hear me out.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

HEADLINES 🚨 People see headlines. In the digital ecosystem it is often all we see. So headlines need to be on point. They cannot normalize or deflate unlawful extremities. Call it out. Here speaks a strong supporter of journalism. But also someone who worries deeply about current headlines.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

One week left to submit to our workshop on "News Futures" at #CHI2025! Join us in exploring how HCI can support the production, verification and dissemination of trustworthy news. Personally, I've never felt more motivated to contribute to this topic. sites.google.com/view/newsfut...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

As usual on point from @garymarcus.bsky.social . AI as a persuasion agent is a dangerous tool (Gary gives our work as an example, but there's a lot more, see thread) and our best guess should be that the recent Trump Executive Order on AI Bias does not intend to fix it (or fix AI Bias). Thread 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I'm joining Binghamton University School of Computing as an assistant professor this Sep. I'm recruiting two PhD students to work on topics related to AI and information ecosystem. If you are interested in joining me, send your CV and a short statement of purpose to my email [email protected]

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance. This recognition highlights Wikipedia's role in advancing free and trusted knowledge, powered by nearly 260,000 volunteers in 300+ languages. Read more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

As ever @lageneralista.ca leading the charge in helping us all understand information ecosystems, this time focusing on national differences and how we compare across borders.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 20 days ago • 56 comments

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 59 comments

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

submitted 25 days ago • 45 comments

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

submitted 28 days ago • 79 comments

Integrating LLMs into database text analysis has huge potential for data journalism. In this post Nick Hagar shows us how to use local LLMs with DuckDB for privacy-preserving document analysis, news discovery, and more: generative-ai-newsroom.com/building-pri...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

submitted 31 days ago • 101 comments

It's ok to use chatbots for everyday monotony like writing your wedding vows because this frees you up to use your creative energy for what truly matters: making powerpoints for work meetings

submitted 33 days ago • 100 comments

How audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Are Democratic leaders making cities more dangerous than Republicans? Trump + others have repeatedly made claims like this. New paper in Science Advances w/ @chriswarshaw.bsky.social, Dan Jones & Matt Harvey shows that, in short, the answer is no.

submitted 47 days ago • 26 comments

This is a very powerful dataset for social science analysis. Glad to see geographic reach called out as a key characteristic of domains!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

New article just published in Journalism Practice led by @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social grad student extraordinaire @cydneygrannan.bsky.social (and co-authored with the amazing @kesearles.bsky.social) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

As both Google and OpenAI ink new licensing deals with publishers, it's important to remember that we still have little idea of what these deals actually contain. And that's not a good thing for anyone really. https://buff.ly/3ZX18Ko

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Join us at #CHI2025 in our "News Futures" workshop to keep growing the community of folks studying ✨ News, HCI, AI, & Democracy ✨ in various forms. I could NOT imagine a better group of organizers for this topic.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

🚨New Publication in New Media & Society🚨 Co-First-Authored w/ @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @meredithpruden.bsky.social & @markriedl.bsky.social Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care. jlukito.com/s/brown-et-a...

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Our CHI workshop report is now published in Interactions Magazine, in their brand new "Waves" format! In this piece we recap three main takeaways from our workshop on LLMs as Research Tools in HCI. Read on for more... interactions.acm.org/archive/view...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

News influencers need journalism - unless they’re tabloid rage trash, news coverage is what they commentate on. Social platforms need news influencers. Community Notes needs journalism -for the Notes to point to. It’s symbiotic. Funding hits to reputable journalism hurt the whole ecosystem.

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency

submitted 51 days ago • 167 comments

New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

submitted 56 days ago • 72 comments

Why do people talk about clickbait as something they avoid and also something that's irresistible? And how can we harmonize science with apparently opposite findings on the effects of clickbait? @mariannealq.bsky.social and I have a new paper, years in the making, to answer this puzzle

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

1/🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 In what is likely the most fun study of my PhD, I am excited to share new work with @natematias.bsky.social about what makes news headlines most effective at grabbing reader attention. Let’s dive in to the science behind clickbait 🧵👇

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Community Notes don't work by themselves. So many things don't get labeled because people don't reach "consensus" on them, which is really what Community Notes optimize for, not factuality What an utter failure. So disappointing

submitted 55 days ago • 9 comments

Channeling John Waters' film-making advice as Jan conference deadlines rapidly approach: "If you ever think the movie you’re making is too long, it is. If you ever wonder — 'Should I cut this?' — the answer is yes."

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies. 🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io 🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments