J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] Highlighting another leader in the science-religion space this #HispanicHeritageMonth : Dr. Agustin Fuentes @AnthroFuentes.
Dr. Fuentes sat w/ us to talk about the importance of humility as a scientist and what science can learn from religion.
Watch here: sciencereligiondialogue.org/resources/who-…
New comment in nature outlining an interdisciplinary research agenda for understanding and governing human-algorithmic behavior by J. Nathan Matias @[email protected]
Studying humans & algorithms separately isn't enough to account for the emergent properties of adaptive tech
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J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] Agustin Fuentes Scientist. Communicator. Producer. Leader.
Our next #HispanicHeritageMonth spotlight is Dr. @Moefeliu, Comms Director CienciaPR + Director iBiology @SciCommLab. Read here about her work teaching science & working w/ underserved communities: sciencereligiondialogue.org/resources/prof…
Great The Society for Social Studies of Science post by ICR at UIUC's Gabriel Malo, AdrianWong + JingyiGu on Just Infrastructures as design principle in academic programming, & lessons shared fr Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫 🏳️🌈 Catherine D'Ignazio @[email protected] Lauren Klein | @laurenfklein.bsky.social Lilly Irani (@[email protected]) Suresh Venkatasubramanian (also on sky and mount) J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] Mary L. Gray, w/ Karrie Karahalios Indranil Gupta! 4sonline.org/enacting-just-…
dave bonner J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] Ada Palmer also SB Divya Machinehood; Annalee Newitz is @[email protected] The Future of Another Timeline; Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden is out! A Half-Built Garden (forthcoming, but very much this); saad z hossain; most of the scifi on my #PredictiveFictions syllabus malkaolder.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/syl… like clarkesworldmagazine.com/barber-saab_09… and The Pushcart War
‘Overwhelmed by hate’: COVID-19 scientists face an avalanche of abuse, survey shows science.org/content/articl… featuring the insight of J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] alice e. marwick Sarah Sobieraj
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Sarita Schoenebeck J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] Computing Research agreed, if you look at cs inside, some subfields interacting with social impact, say, cscw, hci, are also readily more diverse than others.
It is imperative that tech companies receive greater government oversight. That oversight should be informed by rigorous, independent research. Susan Benesch ☮️, J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] and Rebekah Tromble make a powerful case for an approach to do just that in the The Atlantic.
We're celebrating 25 years of Mozilla & our #MozFest changemakers are shining in #Rise25 ! 🌟
Christian Smalls, Fanny Hidvegi, & J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] are some familiar faces shaping our digital future for the better and sparking global action.
Learn more: rise25.mozilla.org
A wonderful description of what 'The tragedy of the digital commons' can also be. Thx J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] 🙏
BusinessIntelligence Knut Jägersberg Dr Efi Pylarinou Dr. Khulood Almani | د.خلود المانع Tom Schermer Dr. Monika Sonu I Founder Healthinnovationtoolbox Brooke Ozlem Erol Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #CES2024 #MWC24 Tony Moroney Mike Flache Tobias Kintzel Nuria Rojo
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Next week! J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] from the Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab and I talk about building up community-oriented labs in university spaces.
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'How can we build inclusive ecosystems on tech & society that serve the public interest, generate hope, & advance justice?' asks J. Nathan Matias (J. Nathan Matias @[email protected]), assist. prof. in Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science, who spoke with MacArthur Foundation president John Palfrey (@jpalfrey).
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Overwhelming or unwanted influxes of aspirational care aren’t new. But as William R. Frey ColumbiaSocialWork and J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] explain, online platforms and social algorithms are accelerating saviorism — especially white saviorism — to overwhelming levels. medium.com/datasociety-po…
J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] Yelena Mejova Thanks Nate! There's a summary thread for the paper here too: twitter.com/yelenamejova/s…
J. Nathan Matias @[email protected] Among the case studies in my privacy & ethics course, the ones that are most relevant to your question are:
*Stochastic Parrots/Timnit Gebru's firing
*'Gaydar' study
*Cambridge Analytica
*Encore (techscience.org/a/2015121501/) -- this is the one where the SIGCOM PC added a note on top
If you're interested in Mastodon but feel a bit weird making an account on an instance run by people you don't know and with ambiguous funding sources, consider social.coop, which is a cooperative! Organised in part by Nathan Schneider and J. Nathan Matias @[email protected].
My dear friends Nate Matias (@[email protected]) and Ivan Sigal (Ivan Sigal) are heading out on a bike trip to commemorate Cesar Chavez's California Farmworkers March, and reporting on Global Voices . Please follow along and support them! globalvoices.org/special/fundra…