✨ Season 3 of our podcast is now live! ✨ Host Natalie Kerby of Data & Society explores the implications of humanity being measured as data with Mimi Ọnụọha Lam Thuy Vo Shaka McGlotten Arthur Gwagwa Deb Raji Dr. Laura Forlano @SareetaAmrute Emiliano Treré and more: buff.ly/3xynXml

did @letriclady and I write a piece about TikTok? yes, yes we did. check it out :') points.datasociety.net/strategic-know…

Mi primer artículo para Univision Nueva York. For Univision Nueva York, I wrote about food insecurity in Bushwick and the citywide program that is bringing three new supermarkets to the neighborhood. Gracias a Carmen Graciela Díaz y Ronny Rojas por la edición y el apoyo. Newmark J-School

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Team! superrr.net/2022/01/20/job… ✨

Our latest blog post contextualizes our report findings about TikTok’s content restrictions in Russia & highlights key press coverage. We show how: (1/5) tracking.exposed/blog/tiktok-ru…

One week's work on the features and evolution of 'super' apps! Led by Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social, Anne Helmond, and @mdieter, and with many great participants of the #DMI22 Summer School.

So excited to be able to share a blog post I wrote over the summer inspired by the @gdc conference last June. Here I reflect on digital media as a way through which to understand global ideations of the body, creativity, and labour in the context of value. globaldigitalcultures.org/2022/09/23/val…

*1 week left* to submit a paper / panel to the Global Digital Cultures & Platform Labor project joint conference on platforms, labor & social reproduction taking place in June in Amsterdam. Join us! globaldigitalcultures.uva.nl/events/global-…

Paper/panel proposals due tomorrow!

Excited to share my latest blog "Gendering the Gig World: A Pakistani Perspective on On-Demand Domestic Work" published in European Research Council (ERC)'s Platform Labor project. Read it here: platformlabor.net/blog/gendering… #platformlabor #gigeconomy #genderdiversity #Pakistan #ondemandwork

Excited to present 2 trackingexposed papers at #AoIR2023 w/ Miazia Schueler, Salvatore Romano, & Davide Beraldo: "The Impact of TikTok Policies on Information Flows during Times of War" & a TikTok observatory tool on "Cross-National Content Prioritization & Platform Mediated Proximities" :)

Exciting news! After 7 years of analyzing, exposing, and holding algorithmic power to account, the Tracking Exposed collective has closed its doors. But we're back under a new name & organization, AI Forensics, and with renewed dedication to uncovering the harms of algorithms.

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Now Miazia Schueler and Natalie Kerby discuss the way TikTok organises content, clustering countries together following geographical lines of proximity. #AoIR2023

The excellent #AoIR2023 TikTok panel reflected on the tension between trying to keep audiences engaged about conflicts and political issues vs platform popularity metrics - this intense labour to catch up with trends is taxing and can even be seen as trivialising world events.

I started a list of 🤖 TikTok Tools to better research the platform. Feel free to add and read all about it in #114 (link in bio). It includes AI Forensics 's TikTok Global Observatory and great tools from UvA Amsterdam bit.ly/thetiktoktools