Shawn Walker

Assistant Professor @asu's @asunewcollege. Studying social media, resistance, methodology, collection, archiving, and analysis. Views are my own.

[Shawn Walker @walkeroh]

@sethlazar @DavidRhysBern As you’re pointing out here, I think that universities can be an ally here. We have the structures for longer-term mentorship and iteration through projects over 1-2years. Not just at the PhD level. So it isn’t just universities or just fellowship programs.

[AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @AZAGMayes]

Today's ruling was procedural. The Supreme Court did not decide whether this executive order is legal, it lifted an injunction while the case continues. Make no mistake: this fight is far from over. States run their own elections. Not the Postal Service. Not the President.

[The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer]

A ton of misinformation on the Supreme Court ruling.

SCOTUS basically said USPS has to make a final rule before plaintiffs can come to us and say they are harmed by it.

[Michele Weigle @weiglemc]

We are excited to announce the publication of "Hashes are not suitable to verify fixity of the public archived web" in @plosone
https://t.co/9JU06E13M5 #plosoneauthor
@WebSciDL @maturban1 @mart1nkle1n @hvdsomp @ibnesayeed @phonedude_mln
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[Huellas Incómodas @HuellasIncomoda]

Qué gusto poder discutir sobre el espacio digital con la presentación "PRESERVACIÓN, CALIDAD Y LO EFÍMERO DE LOS DATOS EN REDES SOCIALES" por parte de @walkeroh de la @ASU.
#digitalskills #ShareKnowledge #research

[Shawn Walker @walkeroh]

It is important to ground our understanding of AI in reality and to demystify it. We are really using trace and surveillance data to push machine learning, but is sure isn't magic. It's pretty brittle so breaks down pretty quickly.

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

NYT "AI" explainer misleads. Deep learning techniques date from the 1980s, & "AI" had been hot/cold for decades, not slow until 2012. There was no new "single idea" in 2012. What WAS new, & propelled the AI boom, was concentrated resources (data/compute) controlled by tech cos 1/

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

It seems we've entered a whole new phase of #AIHype discourse. The good news: There seems to be some movement towards creating regulation. The bad: A lot of it seems to be informed by #AIHype coming from BigTech --- even among those who would work to limit the power of tech cos.

[Future Frontlines @NewFrontlines]

Yesterday, an explosion rocked St. Petersburg’s Street Food Bar, a café once owned by #WagnerGroup godfather Yevgeny #Prigozhin.

The target was prominent Russian military blogger Maksim Fomin, better known by his nom de plume Vladlen Tatarsky.

[Shawn Walker @walkeroh]

@ASU has banned #TikTok university managed devices, but will not be blocked on ASU networks.

[William Pitts @william_pitts]

BREAKING: ASU will shut down all university TikTok accounts and block access to the platform on it's Wifi and university networks, according to a university spokesperson. @12news

[William Pitts @william_pitts]

BREAKING: ASU will shut down all university TikTok accounts and block access to the platform on it's Wifi and university networks, according to a university spokesperson. @12news

[Shawn Walker @walkeroh]

I had the pleasure of discussing the complexities and motivations behind the efforts to ban #TikTok in the U.S. on Fox 10's AZAM this week.

[ASU School of Social and Behavioral Sciences @asu_ssbs]

Assistant Professor @walkeroh discusses the social, political and technological complexities behind efforts to ban the popular social media platform #TikTok in this interview with @FOX10Phoenix.

Watch the interview here: https://t.co/SnXO3ho6wv

[New College at West Valley campus @ASUNewCollege]

Three @ASU experts, including @asu_ssbs Assistant Professor @walkeroh, shared their insights on content moderation, free speech and mis- and disinformation in social media spaces. Read more: https://t.co/LuHCqhOaRM

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

Updates:

US flu trends: sharply down.
US RSV hospitalizations: sharply down.
US Monkeypox: close to zero.

Same in Europe.

Remember the claims that widespread post-COVID immunodeficiency had caused their earlier rises?

If that were true, cases would have to be going up and up.

[ASU Social Data Science program @ASUSocialData]

We're hiring for a Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor of Data and Society! Please share.

More info here: https://t.co/5w8zhHrhPT

[Shawn Walker @walkeroh]

We're hiring for a Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor of Data and Society! Please share.

More info here: https://t.co/3CVn77iEWD

[Michael Simeone @michael_simeone]

https://t.co/z1a27XIQT5

Latest episode where we look at election conspiracies and their prevalence for the 2022 Midterms, with @walkeroh

[Alex J. Rouhandeh @AlexRouhandeh]

I'll be hosting a Twitter Space conversation today with Arizona State professors @walkeroh and @michael_simeone.

We'll talk about the ways in which conspiracy theories are influencing the 2022 midterm election in AZ.

Join us @Newsweek at 2:00 ET: https://t.co/INDX3tRXda