Today, my book The Web of Knowledge by @politybooks.bsky.social is out in the US and is accompanied by @darthvetter.bsky.social 's brilliant and thought-provoking review published in IJOC. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

New paper out today: The Blocklog: 20 Years of Content Moderation on Wikipedia. In New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New short paper on "The Ethics of Accidental Vlogs" in M/C Journal today, written with my @idpiumass.bsky.social colleague Harshita Snehi. Accidental vlogs as in publicly visible videos for private/small audiences (esp. common in Hindi YouTube). journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Vetter, M.A., Jiang, J. & McDowell, Z.J. An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability. AI & Soc (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...

- T-minus 180 minutes and counting - Book launch for "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social 5pm at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague 🇨🇿

New work out with Brent Lucia and Varshil Patel - "The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear" - published in Convergence This piece is a critical analysis of media responses following the public advent of ChatGPT in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

AI companies inundating Wikimedia per @engadget.bsky.social - In recent years, it's felt like @wikimediafoundation.org leadership has done an about-face on @wikicommons.bsky.social, deprioritizing it/rethinking its purpose. Wondering now if this is the context... www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia...

is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?

"Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge" : wikenigma.org.uk#dokuwiki__co...

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“AI fairness” is so ridiculous it’s maddening. The level of bias inherent in data only ensures you will amplify previous issues - just faster and stronger and more “efficiently” (but using 100x more power and money?) www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

In an era when gaming literacy is fundamental to understanding popular culture and technological power, 'Ready Reader One' examines the role of videogame literature in explaining not only how we play videogames, but the stories we tell with, about, and around them. lsupress.org/978080718089...

In uncertain times, access to reliable information is more crucial than ever. Revisit this paper by Zachary McDowell and Matthew Vetter to highlight Wikipedia’s community policies and procedures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

First they came for our paper products and they didn’t understand that meant toilet paper, so they didn’t protest… then they came for wine and …. Bad things happened? amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....

We received 64 submissions for #WikiWorkshop2025 🙌 A huge thank you to the @wikiresearch.bsky.social community for such an amazing engagement. Our reviewers will be diving into them in the coming weeks... stay tuned! 🔍📖

Final reminder for the call for submissions for Wiki Workshop 2025: There are 3 days left to submit your extended abstracts (max 2 pages) until the submission deadline on *March 9, 2025 23:59 AoE* meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

The journal I edit, *communication +1* just released a new special issue on #MediaAesthetics that might be of some interest to my academic and humanistically minded friends. The journal is fully #openaccess so please check it out. communicationplusone.org

The special issue includes this (very timely) article by @darthvetter.bsky.social, Jialei Jiang & @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social : "An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability" doi.org/10.1007/s001... (2/2)

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

A new article I coauthored with @darthvetter.bsky.social is out today in AI and Society, "An Endangered Species: How LLMs threaten Wikipedia's sustainability" #wikipedia #wikiresearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for Papers for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out: Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome). meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

Invaluable work.

The repeal of the Biden administration's executive order regarding AI is extremely dangerous. That an administration paid for by tech billionaires is behind the repeal should alarm everyone.

📣CFP for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out📣 Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about #Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome). meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

Happy to share a recently published article which traces technical writing students' writing process as they engage generative AI -https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10572252.2024.2445302?src=exp-la #genAI #writing #teamrhetoric

For those interested in how I explain my #AIResistance to my students, here is my emerging, growing, and imperfect 🌐Policy for AI Usage in ENGL-121 ⬇️ medium.com/@dbuckedu/po...

Wikipedia is consistently used as a major training source for LLMs but at what cost? My talk on "Wikipedia and AI: Ethical Boundaries in LLM Training" happeningNovember 25 at 10am ET. Online, public but registration is required. dcwwiki.org/Wikipedia_an... #LLM #Wikipedia #AI

Have you ever wondered how @wikipedia.bsky.social really works? Or who are the people who edit and improve its articles? This video is for you. This is #AWikiMinute! A series of videos that answer frequent questions about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia universe in only a minute.

Since I haven't posted this over here yet, I also wanted to share the very cool set of resources we put together awhile ago. (Look for an update to this soon!) (with @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @caramartamessina.com, and @kattitude.bsky.social) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Here's a #poet you should know and read. I've been learning about his life and just published a biographical article about John Dorsey on #Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Do...

Super excited this paper is finally out. “Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| The Realienation of the Commons: Wikidata and the Ethics of “Free” Data” with Matt Vetter. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...