The DSN's Data, Algorithms, and AI in Society hub is organising a workshop on 'AI for society: the implications of ChatGPT' on 26 June 2023; the CFP closes on 30 April, full information available here: sheffield.ac.uk/social-science…

We are delighted to be hosting #AoIR2024 alongside our friends down the road Sheffield Hallam University! 🤗 We can't wait to welcome everyone to our fantastic city! 🥳

Day 1 of the Global Perspectives on Cultural Production Global Digital Cultures Tinca Lukan Thomas Poell | @[email protected] David B. Nieborg Rafael Grohmann Tim Highfield Tuğçe Bidav

info request: if you have used any of my work for teaching/syllabi, especially around digital methods / visual social media / Instagram, could you DM / email me with course details? can be UK-based or international! t.j.highfield AT sheffield dot ac dot uk

In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as X.com, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel. Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea. Read more: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa…

Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. Todd Waterbury, Angy Che and myself, The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵

New paper alert: Tim Highfield and I discuss #hashflags (recently rebranded as #hashmojis) as an example of "platformed solidarity": when a platform--often performatively--changes its affordances in support of a social justice-related cause. doi.org/10.1177/135485…

hello everyone! A quick reminder that the call for papers for #AoIR2024 is open now and will close on 1 March 2024 -- our conference theme for AoIR in Sheffield is 'Industry', full details here: aoir.org/aoir2024/aoir2…

One week to finish your submissions for #AoIR2024! Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, fishbowls, experimental sessions, and pre-conference workshops are all due on 1 March -- full details in this thread ⬇️ Please reach out if you have any questions!

It’s book day! I Heart Politics is out today

Check out Dr Kate Miltner’s excellent (very demure, very mindful) points in WIRED about memes and labour and who gets to profit from them (and how that’s shifted over the last decade):

Excited to be included in the 13 discussion papers that the The British Academy published today on the possibilities of a "good" digital society. My and Tim Highfield's piece focuses on "good" uses of generative AI in the cultural & creative industries: bit.ly/3XiPF4U