📢 Concerns raised over data collection and scientific claims made by mental health apps 🧠 Academics from University of Melbourne are shedding light on the data collection and marketing practices of mental health apps. Nicholas Van Dam and JeannieMariePaterson speak to CHOICE choice.com.au/consumers-and-…

Young men who agree more strongly with rigid masculine norms are more likely to: perpetrate violence and harassment, have thoughts of suicide, drink at risky levels, be involved in traffic accidents. Report and fact sheets at cdn.jss.org.au/wp-content/upl… JesuitSocialServices VicHealth

🚨Job Alert🚨 I'm looking for a Senior Research Associate to join myself and Dr Simon P Hammond for a 2 year funded research project exploring early years digital literacies in the landscape of YouTube Kids! Do get in contact if you want to chat about it myview.uea.ac.uk/webrecruitment…

The University of Pittsburgh has removed Turnitin's AI Writing Detection feature, citing the risk of false positives and the harm they can cause. The Teaching Center "doesn’t endorse any generative AI detection tools". utimes.pitt.edu/news/teaching-…

Are you an ethnographer working with dating apps? Send a 150 word abstract to [email protected] and [email protected] for a Special Issue on dating apps with an anthropological approach. Deadline July 15

DATA ACTIVISM ABOUT FEMINICIDE IN BRAZIL - Join our workshop 8/17 at 3 PM (ET) - activists from different regions of Brazil will share their experiences and discuss tech for human rights monitoring. In PT with live translation into EN and ESP. Sign up: forms.gle/X6w8mQg7YP2vYT…

OpenAI's ChatGPT lost its browsing feature a couple of days ago, courtesy of Arvind Narayanan's demonstration that it could output entire paywalled articles. But Bing itself continues to serve up paywalled articles, word for word, no questions asked.

One of the best pre-conference events I have experienced with Dr Tim Hopper and Rylee Zondervan from the University of Victoria (BC, Canada).

Of 14 AI detection tools, none worked well enough to warrant use in education. It’s a preprint so read with caution, but in my opinion it’s still some of the best evidence we have on the effectiveness of these tools.

The business model of #GenerativeAI systems will have to change as they pay copyright holders, says legal expert Michael Draper. Is the end of “free” #ChatGPT access for all on the near horizon? #academicintegrity #ECEIA2023

📢 Attention #ICQE23 participants! 📝 Just a friendly reminder that the final revision for accepted papers is due on August 25th. 🗓️ Make sure to polish up your work and submit it on time. We can't wait to showcase your brilliant contributions at the conference! 🎉 #QE

CALL FOR PAPERS Datafied by default: Examining the intersect between Children’s Digital Rights and Education More information here: sciencedirect.com/journal/comput… Abstract Due: August 31, 2023. Manuscript deadline is January 31, 2024 Please share. #cfp #callforpapers #education

This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications. If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.

Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy. Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $. If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.) wired.com/story/apple-cs…

It is World Suicide Prevention Day this Sunday, September 10th. Speak with someone today. Speak with someone this weekend. Help is available. Lifeline Australia: 13 11 14 SMS: 0477 13 11 14 suicidecallbackservice.org.au/worried-about-…

Are you looking for a job as a Senior Lecturer, Education Program? This is a key teaching, research and course leadership role that will continue to build on the success of the Initial Teacher Education Courses in the Education Program at VU. timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

Always on standby: acknowledging the psychosocial risk of our postdigital presence in online digital labour in #HigherEd Janine Aldous Arantes & Mark Vicars 🔓→ doi.org/10.1080/072943… #DigitalLabour #WorkLifeBalance #AcademicChatter #AcademicLife #QuietQuitting #DigitalFatigue

Keen to read this. I have a bunch of convoluted tech in place to avoid being on standby. Blocking apps, screen time restrictions, browser plugins, the works. But even with those, I sneak in a bit of email on the weekend and some hot takes on academic Twitter in the evenings.