I am a firm believer that empathy is a resource that can only be depleted by hate. If the loss of one child’s life doesn’t seem as worthy of empathy as another, check your hate levels.
Regenerate your empathy. All children are worthy of life.
Social media is full of talk of values... but what do we 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 when we invoke 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠, and what do we use the term to 𝑑𝑜?
New @icsjournal#OA paper from DigitalValues team+co-authors analyzes the meanings and functions of 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 on Twitter
https://t.co/sS0ajsfpR0
@Tweeting_Aya “PoV: You are reading an academic article.” The memetic performance of affiliation in TikTok’s platform vernacular - Tommaso Trillò, 2026 https://t.co/IowJIzqVaT
Happy to share our new article based on interviews with FFF activists in Israel and Turkey:
‘They don’t like us in the global movement’: the experiences of youth activists at the periphery of worldwide Fridays for Future @icsjournal
https://t.co/BGZJH9lJ76
We have a new paper just published in Information, Communication & Society. Maayan Cohen and I are looking at how the discourse (on X!) around algorithmic bias was taken up, amplified, and reframed across ideological lines at the launch of ChatGPT 3.5. >>
If you’re unable to make it to Niterói for AoIR this year, but still want to get a taste of AoIR - sign up to take part in the ONLINE EARLY CAREER WORKSHOP, on *Monday, 13 October, 11:30am-2pmUTC. Register here until 10 October>> https://t.co/CFiuFc7CcU
As part of the session, we’ll be joined by senior internet scholars from across the globe: Prof. @wishcrys Crystal Abidin | Dr. @tanyalokot | Dr. @smitmehta | Dr. Ashwin Nagappa | Dr. Peter Nagy | Prof. Usha Raman and Dr. @jetsumgerl Zoetanya Sujon
📣 Fully-funded PhD position on the project "Visual Gendered Disinformation" | Come work with me and this fantastic supervisory team (Marilia Gehrke & @seldridge) at the University of Groningen! | Deadline: April 30, 2025 | Mor info here >> https://t.co/QWheJHaL7j
📣 Fully-funded PhD position on the project "Visual Gendered Disinformation" | Come work with me and this fantastic supervisory team (Marilia Gehrke & @seldridge) at the University of Groningen! | Deadline: April 30, 2025 | Mor info here >> https://t.co/QWheJHaL7j
🆕article!✨"Beyond sentiment: an algorithmic strategy for identifying evaluations within large text corpora" by Overbeck (@Max_Overbeck), Baden, Aharoni (@tali_aharoni), Amit-Danhi (@EeDanhi), and Tenenboim-Weinblatt (@KerenTenenboim). Read: https://t.co/NN3Ta6Q8Dx
With fact-checkers being replaced by Community Notes on platforms, our cross-country comparative study on individual news authentication/verification published on IJPP offers some key insights. Check it out 👉https://t.co/3pgyggHfUd 🔓
It has been a privilege to get to think with the #DigitalValues crew since… 2019? The theoretical framework we present here is a proper cumulation of our work, and very relevant to anyone else interested in values, social media, and global communication.
The power of values for understanding social media is also their curse: they are everywhere. In an #openaccess article in New Media & Society, the Digital Values team presents an analytic framework for making sense of values in digital spheres: https://t.co/LJPauk4X0k
(7/🧵) Huge thanks to my co-authors, our research assistants and the #PROFECI project for supporting this study.📚 Read the full open-access article here:
🔗 https://t.co/2IjCroM1F8 & let us know what you think! 💬
🚨 Paper Thread 🚨
📄 "An Ecosystem of Collective Futures"
Co-authored with @tali_aharoni, @max_overbeck, Christian Baden & @kerentenenboim [AKA🔮PROFECI🔮], available open access in @djeditorialteam!
🔗 https://t.co/2IjCroM1F8 (1/🧵)
(6/🧵)Analyzing the actors’ choices in exerting or expressing predictive agency in certain systems, and choosing not to in others, we conclude by asking 'whose projection is it anyway?' and reflect on the complex accountability issues that arise from co-constructed projections.