Jack Brighton

Journalist designer archivist information science researcher socio-technology critic teacher musician & part-time quantum mechanic.

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@progrocksongs Inca Roads

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@vurnt22 WTF, no Bootsy? Verdeen White? AI is stupid.

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@217Showers What, no MAGA flag?

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@LuizaJarovsky Capitalism

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@marcidale If I were building a website about puppies and kittens I would have a dev, a stage, and a production site.

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@BrandonRichards @latimes @nytimes The farmers don't really need that water for their crops. They can use Gatorade from the nearest Dollar General.

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@joshshepperd Somebody gotta call it like it is.

[Feyyaz Fırat @feyyazfirat]

Thrilled to share that our article, "Examining Journalists’ Adoption of Social Media Tools in Contexts of Precarity," is out! Huge thanks to @KafiliSoheil and @rmoon 🙏😊https://t.co/ugDzeePQFo @tandfonline @journstudies

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@joshshepperd Freire's approach to critical pedagogy is one of the first things we discuss in the @iSchoolUI class I teach. We also assign writings by Robin Wall Kimmerer the very first week. These are undergrad students and they *love* it.

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

F-ing brilliant! The level of detail on the listed surveillance companies is impressive and so useful for my research. Not that you asked me, but great design as well, with maybe a few web accessibility issues. (Sorry, former front-end developer here.)

[Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon @DAIRInstitute]

We, along with @AINowInstitute and
@logic_magazine, are proud to support Surveillance Watch: an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

https://t.co/RzvlMp5WSz

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

I've been saying for a while now that the future of local news cannot depend on predatory platforms: In the world’s tech capital, Gazetteer SF is staying off platforms to produce good local journalism https://t.co/wpflxEqQOz via @NiemanLab

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

Important article by @CharisPapaev on Google & Facebook as "funding intermediaries" in journalism space, leading to increased power for the platforms. With actual data to back it up.

[Digital Journalism @djeditorialteam]

𝘋𝘐𝘎𝘐𝘛𝘈𝘓 𝘑𝘖𝘜𝘙𝘕𝘈𝘓𝘐𝘚𝘔 — NEWSLETTER ALERT! Check out our Issue 5 newsletter with article links from our latest special issue “Meso News-Spaces and Beyond”, and interviews with the guest editors and a first-time author.
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[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web? | ACM Transactions on the Web https://t.co/7wbRPwfuOL

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

Yes and we need a broader understanding that technology may have certain affordances and limitations, but the impact it has on society is shaped by humans. We should think critically about what impacts we do and don't want from AI before allowing the industry to just let it loose

[Data & Society @datasociety]

📣New! Despite its increasing adoption in AI governance and industry circles, the term “sociotechnical” is widely misunderstood. Our new brief aims to remedy that, explaining what a sociotechnical perspective is and why it’s so important in policy. 1/6 https://t.co/HE3e4Ktz7N

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@willthewordguy Such a good analysis. I rebelled against saying "user" when designing websites & regarded people who came to the sites as "people." Instead of "user-friendly" why not "people-friendly"? Language matters, especially as we describe pattern-matching technologies as "intelligent."

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@pbkauf Because it's none more black.

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@willthewordguy A great paper on an issue largely ignored in newsrooms. I wrote a non-academic screed on this a while back that got some attention in my own newsroom, but not much beyond: https://t.co/kKxyGUJzUT

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@UFCJCLibrarian Even the most clever and carefully crafted 404 page can go 404.

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@jayrosen_nyu On Friday it was "feisty," used by the press to convey that someone is strongly assertive and bold, but old.

[Jack Brighton @jackbrighton]

@emilymbender I'm gonna use the phrase "synthetic text extruding machines" from now on. As in "we're pushing the envelope on innovating our news products by using synthetic text extruding machines."