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We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher to join our team! Please check our website for details 🖥🌱🔍🦠 mediaecosystemobservatory.com/Work-with-us

Check out the new op-ed about the recent twitter hacks that our director, Derek Ruths published in the The Globe and Mail! theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

An important reminder of how important tech understanding and literacy is among policymakers weforum.org/agenda/2019/11…

In part 2 of our facial recognition technology briefings, we discuss conditions for lifting a moratorium on public use of facial recognition technology in Canada. Find the briefing on our site: techinformedpolicy.ca/facial-recogni…

Have you seen the new initiative of Derek Ruths and Taylor Owen ? Tech Informed Policy is doing really interesting work examining the technology underlying critical policy issues in Canada. Their briefings on #FacialRecognition are now out!

You may have missed our earlier briefings about COVID-19 applications! The first briefing looked at evaluation questions to assess a digital contact tracing/exposure notification application. bit.ly/covidapp1

Our second COVID-19 app briefing looked at the differences between contact tracing and exposure notification. bit.ly/covidapp2

VERY excited to share something I have been working on... The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy Max Bell School of Public Policy McGill University will examine how our media and technology infrastructure shape democracy and public life. mediatechdemocracy.com [Thread]

According to this @MartinPatriquin The Logic article the head of policy for Facebook Canada, who sits on the advisory board of my department, has maligned my work at board meetings and suggested the school not promote it. I have things to say about this. financialpost.com/technology/thi…

Check out lab member Sara's article on the recent dystopian big tech announcement

We're starting a new reading group! The computational analysis of social systems group will be seeking to understand societal scale processes, and will be lead by Derek Ruths and Ben. Get more information here derekruths.com/posts/reading_…

I wrote an article on Wordle, the origins of the world wide web, and the attention economy. It's more of a love letter to the Internet, though. mironline.ca/opinion-a-love…

The COMPASS reading group had a great start today! Thanks to Joseph Vybihal Avinash Bhat and many others for attending!

The second meeting of the COMPASS reading group will be starting in 20 minutes! Looking forward to seeing everyone there derekruths.com/posts/reading_…

NDL students Ben and Sara Parker took part in this policy hackathon and placed first alongside their team in the disinformation category! Always exciting to bring research to a policy table

We are looking for collaborators with a strong cultural/linguistic knowledge of Ukraine and/or Russia to join us on a TikTok discourse research project. More information here: networkdynamics.org/2022/07/15/sea…. Get in touch!

First is my library Seldonite, a scalable news aggregator library based on #pyspark that mainly uses the Common Crawl Foundation index, built for #nlp and social science github.com/networkdynamic…

Second is my adapted version of David Teather's TikTok-Api for #TikTok data collection, with its guts swapped out to use Selenium instead for easier captcha evasion. And it's still pretty fast! github.com/networkdynamic…