After reading 700+ papers that use Reddit data, we qualitatively analyzed the < 150 that had ANY engagement with research ethics. The result is a set of recommendations for ethical considerations in researching Reddit (and other public internet content). cfiesler.medium.com/how-to-remembe…

PCS is now open for GROUP 2025 full papers second wave submissions! Abstract and Title due: May 1, 2024. Submission due: May 8, 2024. Accepted submissions will be invited to present at the conference at Sonesta Resort, Hilton Head Island, USA, January 12-15, 2025.

Interesting fodder for discussion while CS education folks gather at #SIGCSE2024 this week!

TL;DR Let’s not pretend that (1) American social media companies don’t have problems that also need addressing (in favor of a myopic focus on TikTok); and (2) TikTok is all harm and no benefit.

I guess it's time to reshare this op-ed I wrote about TikTok. FYI I'm also happy to speak to journalists on this topic. slate.com/technology/202…

In two hours I'll be doing a YT livestream answering questions about PhD admissions/decisions. (Sorry about the thumbnail, I forgot about daylight savings - it's 10am EDT, not EST. :) ) youtube.com/watch?v=7u-tca…

For folks who will be at #SIGCSE2024 I'm helping to organize an ethics education BOF happening on Thursday, but also I'll be speaking at this pre-conference event on operationalizing responsible computing in undergrad CS. Hope to see you there! sigcse2024.sigcse.org/details/sigcse…

update: still no idea!

FWIW last year, the fact that AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) 2023 was happening at all was announced 1/26 and the CFP came out 2/16 with a 3/15 deadline. I suspect that if there isn't an announcement this week, either it's not happening or it's going to be later than Aug.

Dang. I accidentally clicked “update all” and now my Twitter icon has been replaced by the new monstrosity. :( Might just delete.

New year, new media in the public domain! ✨

“It is almost a certainty that people are going to do things with Mickey Mouse that would be considered trademark infringement.” said Dr. Casey Fiesler from CU Boulder CMCI Information Science. 🐭

colorado.edu/cmci/news/2024…

Happy Public Domain Day! Time to celebrate by watching Steamboat Willie and listening to me explain U.S. copyright terms. :) (Or just read about it!) #PublicDomainDay #SteamboatWillie cfiesler.medium.com/steamboat-will…

My Hallmark Christmas movie parody that started as a Twitter thread. Featuring a tenure track CS professor, taxes for a coffee shop inexplicably due on Christmas, and a small town full of people who keep asking if it's nice to have summers off. cfiesler.medium.com/an-academic-ha…

The energy and carbon costs of deploying AI models have largely been unknown.. until now! 🌏🚀
With Emma Strubell and Yacine Jernite, We tested 88 models on 30 datasets from 10 different tasks from different modalities and found some pretty cool stuff!
A thread 🧵:

Happy birthday #ChatGPT - here’s my narrative of the evolution of coverage and criticisms based on 250ish news stories over the past year. cfiesler.medium.com/chatgpt-wrappe…

In a few hours I’m doing a YT livestream Q&A that (given the time of year) I’m guessing will be mostly PhD admissions questions. :) 12pm ET. youtube.com/live/SCb4Y4_XW…

💯 Our recent paper about copyright removals (mostly on YouTube) for transformative content creators turned out to mostly be about patterns of chilling effects - because it's too scary/arduous/confusing to fight them even if the content is non-infringing. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…