#aoir — Public Fediverse posts

"O Sociologo brasileiro #OscarDAlva ganhou o #prêmio de melhor tese em língua portuguesa da Association of Internet Researchers, a #AoIR, um dos mais prestigiosos do mundo na área de pesquisa de internet. Mas ele nunca subiu ao palco do congresso da associação para recebê-lo.

D’Alva recusou o prêmio ao saber que a conferência tinha patrocínio de uma divisão de pesquisa da Microsoft – justamente uma das empresas sobre a qual sua tese de doutorado se debruçou."
https://www.intercept.com.br/2025/12/26/por-que-este-pesquisador-brasileiro-negou-um-prestigioso-premio-bancado-por-uma-big-tech/

Surprise, surprise: who is auditing #VLOPs platforms for #DSA compliance?
Study by @johnalbert
#AoIR

“Filtering of #GenAI training datasets on #CommonCrawl data is often very basic. Example: C4, filtering out sources that contains naughty words. This leaves violence in, and removes a lot of LGBTQIA content.” — @tootbaack
Full paper presentation: https://mozilla.social/@tootbaack/111885437306039860
#AoIR

I only just now heard about the AI bot persuasion experiment carried out on Reddit users on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit.
This is the post in which the CMV mods let users know that they were experimented on without their knowledge: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/

What do our #aoir #ethics people think about this?
#cmv #aoirethics

an #introduction ... 📝

my work explores the role of digital data, methods and infrastructures in the composition of collective life.

i'm currently focusing on...
- 📘 a book on public data practices
- 🌳 arts-based digital methods for exploring environmental issues
- 🐌 a special issue on critical technical practices in digital research
- 🗃 documenting online mobilisations of east and southeast asian communities in the uk

i'm senior lecturer in critical infrastructure studies at the department of digital humanities, king's college london; cofounder of publicdatalab.org; and research associate at digitalmethods.net + medialab.sciencespo.fr.

more at: http://jonathangray.org/

tag heap: #algorithmstudies #antiracism #aoir #archiving #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #criticaltheory #datapractices #datastudies #decolonisation #digitalcommons #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #feminism #feministsts #forests #formats #freesoftware #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #issuemapping #london #lowtech #newmediaart #newmediastudies #participatorydesign #philosophy #platformstudies #scienceandtechnologystudies #socialtheory #softwarestudies #soundscapes #speculativefiction #sts #zines