Stephen Prochaska

PhD candidate at the University of Washington, studying collective sensemaking and rumors @uwcip
he/him

[Shahan @IC2S2 @shahanmemon]

Just tried SocialAI -- a diary app like Twitter, but with only AI bots as your followers. Very interesting design. You can choose the kind of bots you prefer (sarcastic, debaters, trolls, etc.) because who wouldn't want a sarcastic bot roasting your diary?

The dead internet theory is alive.

#GenerativeAI

[Shahan @IC2S2 @shahanmemon]

Honored to be quoted alongside my advisor @jevinwest in the latest @Nature news article by @dcastelvecchi! It’s exciting to contribute to the conversation on @SakanaAILabs’s AI scientist and automating science in general. Check it out here: https://t.co/JjPpC76nS8

A full commentary is coming soon.

Sharing one of the preliminary results related to popularity bias in cited references with AI generated papers disproportionately citing highly cited papers (~26000 citations per paper on average) in comparison to human written papers (~7500 citations) — an observation that was recently made by @jimmykoppel as well.

#AcademicTwitter #Science @SciencePlusAI #ScienceOfAIMediatedScience

[Chokely Carmichael🥋 is on 🦋 @StewartColes]

Excited to announce that the special issue of @polcommjournal co-edited by myself (@IllinoisComm ) and @Dan_S_Lane (@CommUcsb ), "Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication," is now published!

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[TJ Billard 🇵🇸 @ThomasJBillard]

Honored to have been granted this five-year award from the @wtgrantfdn for my research on anti-trans misinformation. And so excited to get work work more closely with @p_barbera and @BostonJoan as mentors on the project!

[Sam Gregory @SamGregory]

@iamharaldur Been working for five years at @witnessorg on 'prepare, don't panic' around deepfakes, AI-generated media, authenticity and trust. Lots of plans and work you could throw your weight and expertise behind!

[Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezrawaldman]

Consent, opt in or opt out, should never be part of any privacy law. It doesn’t work at scale, as @hartzog, @DanielSolove, et al have said. Happy to play a small part in this @JoeProf study. Thx @natashanyt; excellent write up. https://t.co/aPVOK0VM2o

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[Jo(sephine) Lukito @JosephineLukito]

🚨 Rapid Mutual Aid Information & Resources for researchers impacted by the ending support for the Twitter APIs. (Will add more resources to this thread as we hear about them) 1/n

[Stephen Prochaska @stprochas]

theory, and deep stories to understand the collaborative process by which mis- and disinformation interrupted collective sensemaking and catalyzed diverse actions, shedding light on the processes that laid a foundation for January 6th and future mobilization. 8/8

[Stephen Prochaska @stprochas]

Excited to share our upcoming CSCW 2023 article! We examined Twitter discourse in 2020 to identify how participatory disinformation functioned to mobilize audiences to online and offline action. We found that 1/8 https://t.co/wPDzbGJi7r

[Stephen Prochaska @stprochas]

explicit defition are constantly evolving, often through a collaborative process between storytellers and audiences - a process that we observed in our data around the 2020 election. In our work we build on the concepts of participatory disinformation, resource mobilization 7/8