We found similar things playing around with ChatGPT in my undergraduate course this spring: the program simply fabricates data that looks like it COULD BE real or SOUNDS real, and continues doing so even after you point out that information doesn’t exist.

A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT OF TELEVISION

getting another article submitted so I can add one more completed manuscript to my annual evaluation paperwork 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Published today: the participatory conspiracy culture of Reddit's r/conspiracy subreddit, where about 1.9 million people discuss conspiracy theories. What does everyday, mundane conspiracy theorizing look like? 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/135485…

📢JOB ALERT📢 My department, the Program in Science, Technology, & Society at MIT (@mitpsts), is running a search for two (2!) tenure-track assistant profs. Open field! Full ad + app here: apply.interfolio.com/126855 Sept. 1 deadline. Skinny application! Details / FAQs below...

Extremely deserving! I’ve taught CJ’s essay in several classes already and I love it every time I return to it. So many congratulations!!!

hi I'm working on tenure materials & want to demonstrate the 'reach' of my research/my reputation in the field. if you or someone you know has taught my research (assigned articles or consulted my work in crafting a lecture), might you please let me know? DMs are open. thanks :-)

The underpaid workers propping up AI systems with annotation work are exactly the same underpaid workers propping up social media with moderation work. In many cases it’s even the same companies. restofworld.org/2023/exporter-…

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New cfp out for a special issue of New Media & Society on "Decoding Artificial Sociality"! Contributions are invited that interrogate “Artificial Sociality,” i.e. technologies creating the impression of social competence in machines networks.h-net.org/node/73374/ann… #AI #mediastudies

PubAlert! Introducing new Journal of Communication piece: “Introduction to the special issue of social media: The good, the bad, and the ugly”, by Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Magdalena Wojcieszak , @[email protected] , @hegemonyrules . Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/jq…

✨New article✨ Platforms are battlegrounds of narrative control in conflict situations.I demonstrate how the intertwinement & asymmetrical application of corporate-government power leads to the necropolitical governance of digital populations icsjournal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An interesting fact is that red light cameras are illegal in S.C., yet you see cameras mounted on top of intersections across the state. They're license plate readers, linked to a state-run database that one watchdog says is illegal. Today Post and Courier Greenville: postandcourier.com/greenville/lic…

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New pub alert: Clemson undergrad Cassidy Gruber and I examined news framing of Fitbit data across five murder cases where wearable-generated data was used in criminal investigations, finding the devices are treated as having the capacity to "witness." journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TV3AIJM…

I have signed a contract to publish my book, "Bringers of Order: Wearable Technologies and the Manufacturing of Everyday Life," with University of California Press! I am brimming with excitement to share this project with all of you soon!