Sébastien Salerno

University of Geneva. Interested in Platforms, Citizenship & Sociology

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

@academies_ch @_JonahGoodman @tagi_magi Congrats @_JonahGoodman !

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

@acerbialberto I share this intuition, which deserves to be tested: most heritage media journalists' discourse is predominantly negative toward social media.
Wikipedia has experienced the same treatment.
Media historians have noted the same trend with radio, televisio…

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Four things that become contagious on social media if no one cares to stop it:
👹Toxicity. When normal folks join toxic communities they act toxic
🤬Emotion
💢Radicalization. Norms used online spread offline
⁉️ Misinformation. If you see a falsehood repeated, it seems more true

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

@VTiberj Stats 101 :

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

Great opportunity➡️@uzh_ikmz

[Thomas Friemel @th_friemel]

This is the most exciting job offer I ever posted! Permanent position. 💯% paid. At one of the best ranked departments @uzh_ikmz, in one of the most livable cities @stadtzuerich, and on the most important topic #healthcommunication. https://t.co/mgelz6vceq

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

Towards the End of News Referrals?
The New Face of Media Platforms.
(Source: @axios)

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

Open Day at Palais Wilson

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

Human Rights 75.
#StandUp4HumanRights
@UNHumanRights

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

The first GPT-4V-powered frontend engineer agent.

Just upload a picture of a design, and the agent autonomously codes it up, looks at a render for mistakes, improves the code accordingly, repeat.

Utterly insane.

[Pippa Norris @PippaN15]

Fear and insecurity are classic predictor of authoritarianism.

And look at the polarization in world views...

Three-quarters of Trump voters see a world of existential threats.

Three-quarters of Biden voters see a world of benevolence and love.

https://t.co/93g7jcpmcr

[Yash Vekaria @vekariayash]

Does Twitter/X comply with their advertising policies?
We conduct a first large-scale measurement of problematic advertising on Twitter during the regime change in our research (@zubair_shafiq,@zsavvas90) by analyzing 34K ads from ~6M tweets - observing widespread non-compliance

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

People Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not) Amplify Divisive Content https://t.co/KXqIF0cVpy

Our new paper in @PsychScience finds consensus across the political spectrum and demographic groups about the type of content that social media platforms should amplify.

People believe that divisive content, moral outrage, negativity, arousing content, and misinformation are all likely to go viral online.

However, most people say this type of content should not go viral.

Instead, they want platforms to amplify positive content—such as accurate content, nuanced information, and educational content.

Thanks to @steverathje2 @CRobertson500 and @william__brady for leading this project.

[Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell]

1. A striking measure of Amazon’s monopoly power are the rapidly growing fees it extracts from the businesses selling on its site.

Amazon is now taking 45 cents of every dollar, up 35 cents just three years ago.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Now that it's September, we can put our June hypothesis to the test. And... it checks out perfectly. ChatGPT in blue, Minecraft in red.

Kids are doing homework again and ChatGPT search interest is back up.

[David A. Broniatowski @Broniatowski]

🚨🚨New paper!🚨🚨
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook took the unprecedented step of removing anti-vaccine misinformation and accounts promoting this misinformation.
This policy was controversial. But did it work?
https://t.co/i9MmMnEOIf
Here's what we found:

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Global search engine market share:

🇺🇸 Google: 91.85%
🇺🇸 Bing: 3.02%
🇷🇺 Yandex: 1.49%
🇺🇸 Yahoo: 1.17%
🇨🇳 Baidu: 1.06%
🇺🇸 DuckDuckGo: 0.54%
🇰🇷 Naver: 0.48%

🌍 Other: 0.39%

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

@mrjonfinger @HeyGen_Official Sounds natural. It's stunning.

[Sébastien Salerno @SalernoSebi]

Screens and children's development.
Shuai Yang et al. (2023:13): "The context, not solely the screen time, matters in children’s cognitive
development."
French nationwide birth cohort, N=13763.
https://t.co/Mgjs0PqIRI