Ville Aula

PhD Researcher @MediaLSE, teacher @lsegovernment @FulbrightFIN scholar @UCSD #politics #data #parliaments #digitalpolicy Alumn of @oiioxford and @SocSciHelsinki

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

Check my blogpost @LSEImpactBlog. Media fixation on #coronavirus data is mostly a spectacle of numbers with little value for public debate. #datajournalism can both hoodwink and help us understand what is behind the numbers. @MediaLSE

https://t.co/HFimgRiJhc

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

"The Victorians established a powerful paradigm that continues to haunt us: that the future is (or can be) a utopia, and inventors and entrepreneurs are the ones who know how to get there." https://t.co/PoKaCQb8xr @NoemaMag ht @vinodrjkn

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

@JuhaItkonen Kysymys olettaa että hyvinvointialueet olivat uusi hallinnon taso. Tosiasiallisesti taso oli kuitenkin jo olemassa kuntayhtyminä ja valtion aluehallintona, joiden toimintaa tunsivat vain harvat, koska kansalasilla oli erittäin vähän valtaa niissä.

[Christoph Molnar 🦋 christophmolnar.bsky.social @ChristophMolnar]

A lot of machine learning research has detached itself from solving real problems, and created their own "benchmark-islands".

How does this happen? And why are researchers not escaping this pattern?

A thread 🧵

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

Sometimes #fakenews are aspirational, but that doesn't make them any more true. 4-day work week or 6 hour days never been on the Finnish government agenda. If anything, domestic political pressure in 🇫🇮 has been to the opposite direction

[Nordic News @Nordic_News]

US social media users praise fictitious Finnish labor reform https://t.co/WZo03J96RX

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Your research results are not as (statistically) significant as you think they are -- Factorial design edition

https://t.co/LTPcVmuJ4h

"After including all interactions, over half their results lose significance."

[LSE Impact Blog @LSEImpactBlog]

Less ‘prestigious’ journals can contain more diverse research, by citing them we can shape a more just politics of citation.

#ScholComm https://t.co/1vaAA4OdIX

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

@davekarpf nails the thread. Growing old as a #platform is miserable if you built your brand around #goodvibesonly but then discover that people on your platform have really bad vibes and use it to spread lies

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

@IKarryla @joonahermanni Väitettä on syytä tarkentaa: hyvä käyttäjäkokemus syntyy saumattomuudesta, ei keskittämisestä. Alustayhtiöt koittavat maksimoida saumattomuuden alustan sisällä, ja maksimoida muurit niiden ympärillä. On yhtiöiden luoma harhakuva, että hyvä käyttäjäkokemus edellyttää keskittämistä

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

Finally some #digitalcompetition action from @CMAgovUK! Time is long due for it. Everyone will be better off when #platforms cannot buy their rivals just before they become truly competitive. We don't need miracles, we need enforcement and competition https://t.co/6KaiIzUXqv

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

@agstrait If you take America out, he's actually right: the benefits were symbolic rather than of any actual use,and they were mostly fruits of pure will rather than doing something people needed. Sounds like crypto to me...

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

Over the past few weeks, the Facebook Papers have reaffirmed that FB has fueled the spread of hate speech & misinfo around the world.

But there’s a crucial piece missing from the story. FB isn’t just amplifying misinfo.

The company is also funding it. https://t.co/DHEoABGbCi

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

@talouselama Paljon ytimekkäämpi oppi Facebook tapauksesta on että älä riko lakia, valehtele toiminnastasi, tai tietoisesti johda yleisöä harhaan

[Sebastián Lehuedé @s_lehuede]

#Metaverse and critical phenomenology: "'Experience' is both what platforms (claim to) deliver, and the resource they cultivate, extract and exploit for profitability purposes" - By @ludludlud @MediaLSE
https://t.co/M6wiPKQi50

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

The only original things about Facebook’s metaverse are its scale and irresponsibility, @EthanZ writes: https://t.co/GjB7ZSZJfp

[Leon Yin @LeonYin]

If you're interested in learning about the antitrust issues referenced in The American Innovation and Choice Online Act, here are 2 empirical studies I worked on with @adrjeffries...

On Google Search:
https://t.co/hunAvuCpLu

On Amazon Search:
https://t.co/5GDHZjSZcs

[Tim Howles @AimeTim]

1/ The intellectual context in which @BrunoLatourAIME was operating in the mid to late 1970s is crucial for an understanding of his later work.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

I'll thread them, every analyst, academic, journalist and regulator covering Facebook needs to review them and SEC needs to launch full investigation:

Facebook's role in the 2020 election and January 6 insurrection /2
https://t.co/dH7qaYHdln

[Anu Koivunen @anukoivunen]

Piilaakso päättää missä rautaesiriput nousevat ja laskevat. Globaalit digijätit voivat luottaa siihen, ettemme välitä. Facebook Files -uutisetkaan eivät enää jaksa meitä käyttäjiä tai mediaa kiinnostaa. #dataistuminen #journalismi
https://t.co/1u8IcpRGtM

[Ville Aula @VilleAula]

@agstrait Maybe check Gartner hype cycles from the 90s for candidates? Launched in '95 it should by now how many technologies that eventually did not pan out as expected.