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🚀 #hackica25 registration is open! 🚀 Spots are limited—secure yours now: forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaC... 📅 June 11-12, 2025 📍 UC Boulder (shuttle from Denver available) No coding skills required! Join us to explore methodological & substantive challenges in communication science. See you there! 🍻

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Well....we can't post news links on FB but I guess we still get fact checking in Canada?

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But if you sing it like Olivia Newton John? Let's Get Phygital, Phygital! No?

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The second installment in the @qutdmrc.bsky.social 360info election series is now out, @snurb.info and @vilkins.bsky.social explain how the rapid decrease in platform data availability is curtailing independent scrutiny of online political communication 360info.org/how-digital-...

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Felt the same way when I got this email this morning. ICA's doing the best they can, but the fact that they have to? Awful.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I think I've now heard all three major Ontario parties running ads against working with Trump (or being soft on Trump).

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Americans who rely on social media as their main news source are more likely to encounter conspiracy theories, according to a technology professor. Here are some tips for information literacy on #TikTok (and here): @anneo.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social #misinformation

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Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

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Deadline tomorrow! We just need a summary and keywords to evaluation your submission so consider submitting and joining the amazing @icacat.bsky.social and #ICAmobile DC network!

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My first article for The Conversation is live! The target audience is teens and young adults who get their news on TikTok.

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Polar bear population decline due to climate change-induced food shortages, according to a new #UofT study @utsc.bsky.social 🐻‍❄️ uoft.me/bgg

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PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs June 12. Thanks! https://buff.ly/3USZB4A

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Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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What will the end of Meta’s fact-checking program mean for Canadians? @spaikin.bsky.social asks, @mcewan.bsky.social (@iccit-utm.bsky.social), @erinkelly.bsky.social (Advanced Symbolics), @taylorowen.bsky.social (@mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social), and @carmilevy.bsky.social tonight at 8/11pm

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NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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I mean....Canada has generous science funding, excellent labs and unis offer a paid path to citizenship. It's a privilege to work here but I don't know if Canada wants to snap up US scientists.

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Love that the guy who is supposedly so concerned about free speech is scrubbing public datasets.

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Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...

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Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media platform X in recent weeks. The ads are designed to lure Canadians into a sophisticated scam that uses Russian internet infrastructure, CBC News has found. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Check out our new report about US voters in 2024!

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With the repeal of the AI exec order, the Trump admin has rescinded an effort to regulate new tech for the public good, protect Americans against violations of their rights & liberties when AI is in use, and build the governmental muscle to ensure that AI serves all Americans. 1/4

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Are you a senior/mid-career scholar who just got an #ICA25 acceptance? Consider adding yourself to the CAT/Mobile Doctoral Consortium mentor pool! forms.gle/p3hXXGWSCgLa...

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PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12. https://buff.ly/3USZB4A

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The Transportation Tomorrow Survey from 2022 that Minister Sarkaria and Doug Ford were hiding has been released. It shows cycling commute mode share is up 300% in Old Toronto since 2001. Now sitting at 11.3% in Old Toronto wards (4, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14), 10x bigger than "1.2%"!

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"Online discussions are dominated by a surprisingly small, extremely vocal, and non-representative minority. [...] Not only does this extreme minority stir discontent, spread misinformation, and spark outrage online, they also bias the meta-perceptions of most users who passively “lurk” online."

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We are actively building the mentor pool for the ICA25 DC. Interested in helping out? Fill out this form: forms.gle/iVWM2Ngu951o... We build a broad pool of 50 or somentors across CAT/Mobile topics so that we can make match around 10 mentors once we know the accepted students dissertation topics.

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“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

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“Is the internet good for children?” For those who missed my #DigitalFutures4Children public lecture with @LSEMedia.bsky.social @5RightsFound.bsky.social You can now watch or listen here Podcast www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70X...

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Jeff Hall is one of the most meticulous scholars I know - so that this is very carefully written does not surprise me!

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Meanwhile a colleague at JP can't even buy faculty member friends a drink because we technically work for the government

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@cbc-news.bsky.social's take on the Australian Social Media Ban: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Despite the headline, I think within the piece, the sources (incl. me) were able to cut through that frame.

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