David Hesmondhalgh Dr Raquel Campos Valverde AFHEA Leeds Uni Media Lisa Merete Kristensen DataPublics Jannie Møller Hartley Signe Sophus Lai University of Copenhagen Mathias Felipe Adeola Abdulateef Elega, PhD Allen W Charis Papaevangelou ILLC Chineme Okafor Minna Koivula Margareta Salonen University of Jyväskylä JYUhytk Heritiana Ranaivoson (he/him) imec-smit, VUB Theresa Josephine Seipp IViR 10/ Recent social science concerning the tech industries is being driven by an urgency around the problems social media platforms face.

And now that I've cleared up the affiliation change: I'm excited to share a new article I published today in
International Journal of Communication. It's titled 'Networked Platform Governance: The Construction of the Democratic Platform.' ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

Interested in algorithms, platforms, speech, society? I recommend checking this event out tomorrow and Saturday. I’m currently attending the private pre-workshop, and it’s chock full of excellent, thought-provoking work.

This has been a terrific conference so far. Love when papers in a panel actually are puzzle pieces of a bigger, coherent conversation, you can feel them snapping together into big questions. There's a bit more today and plenty tomorrow - I highly recommend. #platgovnet2023

Don't look now!! It's the next wave of SMC interns at MSR, studying all things sociotechnical! socialmediacollective.org/2023/03/24/mee…

I couldn't be more excited to announce that in July I'll be joining Microsoft Research New England for a postdoc in Socio-Technical Systems. This little family is moving to BOSTON BABYYY!! It's really a dream come true that I'll get to work alongside Nancy Baym is not here Tarleton Gillespie Mary L. Gray & danah boyd 🥲🥳✨

If this is something you'd like to read, please do. 'The Fact of Content Moderation; Or, Let’s Not Solve the Platforms’ Problems for Them.' in Media and Communication. cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommun…

New The Washington Post:

Elon Musk is right about this much: Shadowbanning is real.

It’s time for social media companies to come clean about when and how they reduce people’s reach—and who it really hurts.

Spoiler: It’s not just conservatives.

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The deadline for the SMC postdoc position is fast approaching, Dec 9. Advanced PhD students studying tech and society, do not delay!

Good news for PhD students thinking about platforms inside of organizations, Nancy Baym is not here has got a second summer internship! Read the description, it's more specific than our broader SMC internships. But if its your thing, I encourage you to apply! socialmediacollective.org/2022/12/01/int…

Come work with us!

The key challenge for the Justice sector is to define and realize public values surrounding the rule of law in the algorithmic society.

For more info on the application procedure and vacancies in our Health and Media sector visit algosocvacancies.org

We have 5 exciting research positions in the Media sector!

One of the key challenges for this sector is to define and realize public values in an algorithmic democracy.

For more info and our other vacancies in Justice & Health go to: algosocvacancies.org

6 exciting research positions in our Health sector!

The sectors' key challenge will be to optimize the benefits of automated decision systems while minimizing the risks to public values.

For info on the application procedure and other vacancies visit algosocvacancies.org

1/2 The AlgoSoc program is looking for 13 PhDs and 4 postdoctoral researchers to do ground-breaking research into the relationship between technology and society, investigating how we can ensure that ADS respect and realise public values and human rights.

Well, here's an Elon-sized example of what I've been writing about. Who knows if this will even become policy, or Twitter will last long enough to matter, but Twitter is not the only platform doing this. Read on. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Today's featured article is 'Content moderation, AI, and the question of scale' by Tarleton Gillespie (Tarleton Gillespie): buff.ly/3qwmJEy #artificiaiIntelligence #bias #socialmedia

Musk bought the company and he can do whatever he wants. It’s quite literally his company. But while you can change code and business practice at will, no company has perfect control over user perceptions or ingrained habits and mores. Twitter has spent a decade reinforcing ….

The SMC is seeking a postdoc for 2023, someone whose work brings a sociotechnical understanding to crucial issues of our time. Is it you? Want to work in an interdisciplinary lab, turn your PhD efforts into a bona fide research trajectory? Apps due Dec 9. socialmediacollective.org/2022/11/09/smc…