David Elliot Berman

Assistant Professor @SetonHall. Former: @AnnenbergPenn @MIC_Center. Platforms, policy, political economy.

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and narrowing job prospects, AI has become the new avatar of American capitalism.

[Suzie Dawson @Suzi3D]

I'm going to keep saying it until people get it.

AI *is* mass surveillance.

All AI. Not some. All. By design and by default.

https://t.co/YsgeHkb2OJ

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading”—but that’s because not enough teachers are asking them to, Walt Hunter writes: https://t.co/6R4BDqfrGp

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language

Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT

Model collapse, except for humans https://t.co/nlfbEozhCJ

[nick catucci @catucci]

Most thoughtful take I’ve seen on sports betting, from the great @liz_franczak

https://t.co/uLPGWnREsD

[Matthew H. Young @matthenryyoung]

The earnest term paper written in the fevered haze of a caffeine and nicotine fueled all-nighter — of greater worth to me than the entire cumulative output of generative AI.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

The only good take on Olivia Nuzzi

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

The thing about AI I want to press people on is why capital feels compelled to invest in AI *in particular* and to the exclusion of everything else.

[Leigh Giangreco @LeighGiangreco]

It’s a loss for humanity as a whole that we are losing cultural critics with keen eyes and sharp wits, then getting nothing in return but AI slop and influencers who ask Pedro Pascal what it’s like to be the Internet’s daddy

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Every day an ostensibly serious person describes how they use ChatGPT—to write pretty passages, to rattle off fun hallucinated historical slop to them in the car—and it really is as though they’ve voluntarily hung a big, public sign around their neck that says: “I’m illiterate.”

[David Elliot Berman @_DavidBerman]

Thrilled that my article “On Optimization: Cultural Labor in Platform Capitalism” has just been published in New Media & Society! https://t.co/pq42y91jgt

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

Grad school

[Kassia Oset @KassiaOset]

This article title goes extremely hard

[MIC Center @MIC_Center]

Excited to announce our Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute's $1.2M award to partner with the City of Philadelphia to evaluate and support their NTIA-funded initiative to create a more digitally empowered city. @PSUBellisario @_DavidBerman
https://t.co/IwzgIuQjFB

[David Elliot Berman @_DavidBerman]

All that's solid melts into clickbait and hot takes.

[Isaac Gutierrez @byisaacg]

If Zach Lowe doesn’t deserve to be employed by your company then no one does. It’s like month by month we’re watching the company that used to define sports media wither away into nothing of substance

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized.

Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff

https://t.co/FQYLQDaF1q

[A.J. Bauer @ajbauer]

We can't joke or snark our way out of what's happening now or what comes next. Organize your friends, coworkers, neighbors — look out for them. Take care of one another.

Less time online. More time building and cultivating communities of care.

[Victor Pickard @VWPickard]

Come work with us at the MIC Center! We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher who focuses on the political economy of broadband, digital equity, and the future of local media infrastructures. Please spread the good word! https://t.co/2lKvPcyiWe

[@saschameinrath.bsky.social @saschameinrath]

Raising awareness with my Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute colleagues about a looming legal paradox that's been left to fester, and is now coming to the fore: https://t.co/LnQy5VR4Qc @Ali_Christopher @_DavidBerman @SydneyForde @VWPickard

[Victor Pickard @VWPickard]

Excellent piece by ⁦@_DavidBerman⁩ & ⁦@ppopiel⁩ in ⁦⁦@techpolicypress⁩: https://t.co/6So1AeCu2t