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AI isn't used to make decisions, it's used to justify decisions.
Media have social and political implications
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NYC's "AI" "weapon scanners" produce 85% false positives!!1!!
AKA they don't detect weapons-- they give cops a pretext to harass ppl while lining the pockets of vendors. In the meantime, NYC is shutting libraries on weekends citing budget constraints.
https://t.co/Q3egVy8lNx
Digital media experiences are shaped by the tools we use
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soooo fun and cool that if you google something related to medieval art now, half the top results are ai generated garbage. absolutely love that.
Each medium has a unique aesthetic form
Comics are a powerful medium for teaching, but we need to make sure students know how to "read" them first!
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Media have social and political implications
Each medium has a unique aesthetic form
Audiences negotiate meaning
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I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.
Media have social and political implications
Digital media experiences are shaped by the tools we use
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🚨Generative AI has a serious problem with bias🚨
Over months of reporting, @dinabass and I looked at thousands of images from @StableDiffusion and found that text-to-image AI takes gender and racial stereotypes to extremes worse than in the real world.
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Media have social and political implications
Digital media experiences are shaped by the tools we use
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Media have commercial considerations
Each medium has a unique aesthetic form
Digital media experiences are shaped by the tools we use
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this is a great piece on how TikTok shapes the aesthetic of food / restaurants. Instagram forced food to make for pristine, dramatic static images, now, TikTok requires moments of motion and "activation" because of video https://t.co/FQVzX4izAf
Great resource for doing a framing analysis of news: comparing how two top news outlets covered the same issue.
What was covered? What made the front page? Who was quoted?
Media have social and political implications
Each medium has a unique aesthetic form
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Media have social and political implications
Digital media experiences are shaped by the tools we use
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🚨Out in @ScienceAdvances!🚨
Large experiment shows the social media context in and of itself can interfere with users' ability to tell true from false. This has important implications for how we design platforms, and study misinformation. Thread below:
https://t.co/LhBTtTUXPi
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Ms. Singh says the first-of-kind helmet isn't just a solution for Sikh kids; "it's also a symbol of being seen in sports." When children see people like themselves reflected in sports, they are more likely to identify with & imagine themselves as belonging to that community.
Media have social and political implications
Digital media experiences are shaped by the tools we use
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How Lensa's AI sees men vs women. No AI is neutral; every decision and data set can bias the output; and it's a lesson we'll have to keep learning over and over again https://t.co/8oACbaXefA @Melissahei
Media have social and political implications
Audiences negotiate meaning
Interactions through digital media have a real impact
One of the features of networked media - for good or ill - is that users have a lot more influence over content, norms and values.
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The Kanye subreddit is organically transforming into a Holocaust awareness subreddit.
One of the most basic media literacy questions is "What is included & what is left out?"
Media are constructions
Media have social and political implications
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Brilliant! So you can find the name of the Baby Elephant but not that of the Journalist?
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