We're very lucky having @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social present today at Curtin University for CCAT on Platform Epistemology: Shaping Algorithmic Knowledge in the Visibility Game, on the first leg of Kelley's Australian tour!

I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart

The preliminary TikTok deal announced by Trump in the last few days would create a new US-only version of the app and license the algorithm from ByteDance. I shared thoughts about what could happen in an article published in the @theconversation.com

My college wrote about my and colleagues' work for National Civic Hacking Day. The article covers NSF-funded research with @profprof.bsky.social, @kthorson.bsky.social, @ankolika.bsky.social, @afbat.bsky.social, Marialina Antolini, Benji Davis around volunteer moderators of local online groups.

And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 We are hiring at Penn State! My college (@bellisariograded.bsky.social‬) is hiring an Assistant Professor in Health/Science Communication (emphasis on social scientific approaches). I'm leading the search, so feel free to reach out with any questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

New OA pub day! Given the dwindling of local newspapers, folks are turning to social media. Platforms are discursively constructing local community groups as a new kind of hub. But local volunteer mods are the ones who are charged to realize these visions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

More than a restriction on what can be said, this represents an effort to constrain what is known. A clear attempt to cultivate ignorance.