What a lovely #cscw2025 session of authors, papers and audience we had on "bipartisan discourse online". 😍 With Pooja Casula, @richmondywong.bsky.social, Sarchin Pendse and Marina Kogan, @jhaapj.bsky.social and more... Check out the papers: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/my...

I presented our work yesterday at #CSCW2025 extending the algorithmic crystal framework to the social self to account for the increasingly socially-infused nature of personalized algorithms...🧬🔮✨ If you missed it, you can check out our paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Back from my hiatus on here to announce our first study on Digital Ideologies. With @jhaapj.bsky.social and @matnel.bsky.social we explored connections between the affordances of social media and political ideologies. There are differences… 🧵 📄 Get the #CSCW paper at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

New article out, just in time before #CSCW2025! This piece, by @eppfel.bsky.social, me and @matnel.bsky.social, looks at what happens if we ask politicians with different ideological leanings and party affiliations to design social media services. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #hcisky #hci #CSCW

🚨New publication alert! This one was a personal favorite of mine to work on, including fun facts about such topics as streamers farting into microphones for money. “Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba” is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📚 New paper alert! 🌎 "Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on digital platform companies’ environmental discourse" was just published in Platforms & Society, a new-ish journal focused on critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization. (1/x)

Jos käyttäjät saisivat päättää, minkälainen olisi ihanteellinen poliittisen sosiaalisen median keskustelun osallistuja? Tätä selvittivät @jhaapj.bsky.social ja kollegat tuoreessa artikkelissaan. Tuloksissa korostuvat muun muassa pätevyys ja vastuullisuus. rajapinta.co/2025/09/22/m...

We had a paper on ideal participants for social media political discussions in #dis2025. While it is a bit late to advertise that paper, I did write a short post about the paper to our research group's substack: sociallycompute.substack.com/p/what-makes...

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

DL just around the corner! Apply by May 15 if you're interested in advancing research on theory translation and games

Time to wipe your Soundcloud, y'all. Anything on there can be used for AI training per the new Terms and Conditions.

CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...

Feminists’ attitudes towards men – Six studies, in the most systematic examination yet of feminists’ actual and perceived attitudes toward men, find that feminists’ attitudes toward men are broadly positive and broadly similar to other people’s attitudes toward men. Findings: 1/4

What a nightmare. Credit to Deezer for going public about the extent of the problem.

What do creators do when they feel that social media platforms aren’t treating them fairly? Our study of a controversy about racism and bias on YouTube, out now #openaccess in @policyr.bsky.social, offers a new answer: they participate in aspirational platform governance doi.org/10.14763/202...

🔥CFP HOT OFF THE PRESS!🔥 I'm really excited to be editing this special issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI with @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and Daphne Idiz for AI & Society. Abstract submission deadline 30th June, get in touch with questions! MORE INFO: link.springer.com/journal/146/...

Disney's Action Game Featuring Disney's Hercules

Interested content creators? Gossip about YouTube's algorithm? Academic articles with unnecessary long titles? "Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I've had a review experience where the manuscript contained multiple references with the broad subject area kind of correct, but the studies and their results were still way too far away from the claims. Maybe this explains what was going on in there.

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

~ New publications on datafication and insurance ~ I am happy to share two recently published articles I’ve been working on, both exploring the implementation of digital technologies and data in insurance, with a particular focus on the use of self-tracking technologies. (A thread)

My US-based colleagues, FYI: Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland. By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.

Is your PhD research on game design, game production, HCI, or design theory? I've got three 2-year postdoc positions in my ERC StG project to investigate what makes theory useful and usable in game design / interaction design. Reposts much appreciated. Thx! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

This paper has 14 citations in >5 years, yet it's one of the most sophisticated papers I've read in HCI on the complexities of supporting agency. Apprise: Supporting the Critical-Agency of Victims of Human Trafficking in Thailand dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

What is your favorite academic research on YouTube? I’m working on a list (for its belated 20th birthday 🎂) and would love some recommendations #commsky

Surprise surprise. Will this sort of great research stop this use? www.nature.com/articles/s42... @susansegfault.bsky.social

I'm extremely grateful to the Finnish Cultural Foundation @skr.fi for awarding me a two year grant to study how being a user of algorithmic systems is turned into a moral identity! #skr2025 #kulttuurirahastontuella

I've been coming back to this playlist every now and then. Highly recommended!

📣 We are very happy to announce that our special theme in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on Digital Resignation and Privacy Cynicism is complete! 👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy. journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...

Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @emilymbender.bsky.social) It's out for release on May 13, 2025! thecon.ai

Humans are increasingly assembling with sensory AI technology. People with impairments may benefit significantly from this development. I am seeking a postdoc researcher to join me and Barry Brown. It will explore the intersection of digital and human senses. jobportal.ku.dk/alle-opslag/...

In 2024, together with @emilianotrere.com, we published this book - Algorithms of Resistance (@mitpress.bsky.social) - the result of five years of fieldwork. We show that we can challenge platform power. Since it is gift time, this book is available in Open Access on the MIT press site. Enjoy!

really proud of this article me, @mattipohjonen.bsky.social & A. Knuutila put together over the past 2 of years. If your question is: "how to approach TBs of datasets, n-dimensional vectors and multimodal latent spaces ethnographically?", we might have some ideas journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Surprise major archive find today - Paul Lazarsfeld apparently hired Theodor Adorno to write a 100pp qualitative analysis of quantitative participant interviews for something called the “Labor Project” in 1944, same year that “Dialectic of Enlightenment” was published. Yes, it’s interesting.

Presenting Algorithmic Luddism or how refusal, resistance and reimagination is possible in algorithmic systems and societies! A fruit of collaboration with @vasichar.bsky.social and @tuukka.bsky.social @sifoforsk.bsky.social

We are hiring four PhD fellows, fully funded for 3 years, in an open call at my Department. If you are (or know someone) interested in working on tracking&society in Copenhagen, please get in touch: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

bladerunner.co - when your AI employees start complaining about work-life balance.

Still a few days left to apply! ✨

'Tis the season to be wiser. Bringing back a tradition, I'll do an #AdventCalendar with one piece of freely available media/comm/journalism research each day until Christmas. I'll try to keep it relevant behond the academy. Hashtag (to follow or block): #AskeXmas 0/24

As major power outages used to lead to a baby booms nine months later, I have a hypothesis: Overleaf down times lead to researchers starting new projects, rather than finishing existing.

My brain after I turn out the lights

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🚨 Working on disinformation and (generative) AI? I am editing a special issue with Aqsa Farooq as part of our EDMO work. 🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2024 Please share 🫶🏼 #disinformation #academicsky #commsky #polcom #csssky edmo.eu/edmo-news/ca...

Important research on the use of algorithms for profiling by the Swedish Social Insurance authority #forsakringkassan. My contribution to this effort was reported by Svenska Dagbladet: www.svd.se/a/QMPexQ/fn-... www.linkedin.com/posts/vdignu...

The Center for Advanced Internet Studies 📡 has published the #CallforParticipation for the Interdisciplinary Conference on #CreatingSpaces for #DigitalFutures 🌐, 09.–10.10.2025. Join us in #Bochum📍. More information: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa...

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction is looking for outreach editors, i.e., junior researchers who wants to rethink and implement how the journal engages online with readers and authors. Deadline for applications is Dec 11. Call at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... or ask me for more info.

A starter pack of those who are studying the power of algorithms at work, the consequences of algorithmic management on work and workers, and/or what we do about it. Please share or suggest and I will add; I will also keep an eye out as more people migrate to Bluesky! go.bsky.app/Aag5R43