alice e marwick

BOOM!!!

to uninstall, my kingdom for an edit button

I cannot tell you how much Knight and @thecoalition.bsky.social are doing us all a huge solid on this. as a naturalized citizen i'm low risk but it's abhorrent for the administration to use immigration law as a way to shut down legitimate, independent, empirical research they don't like

📣 New! Around the world, AI-generated deepfakes are being used to enable financial fraud — and they're causing serious harm. Our policy brief w @columbiasipa.bsky.social unpacks the limits of current regulations & underscores the need for institutional accountability. datasociety.net/library/deep...

You don't need to subscribe, but you do need to install, and I would recommend against that - I just spent 20 minutes with ChatGPT + terminal meticulously killing all the zombieware it comes with that makes it impossible to install.

I wrote a BS paragraph about how Nancy coined "context collapse" and their "expert review" from "danah" didn't even point out that's incorrect. (Also, I wrote Status Update in 2010-2012 and it has nothing to do with disinformation)

Not only am I (& @nancybaym.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @zizip.bsky.social & probably dozens of other friends) in Grammarly's garbage "expert review" feature, they categorize my work completely incorrectly. This feature is not just thievery but useless.

The AI threat costing Americans $16.6 billion a year AI is already a weapon of mass fraud.

Thanks so much @bryanrwalsh.bsky.social for this fantastic coverage of my AI scams work at Aspen Digital's Crosscurrents last week- the more we can push coverage of this issue the more likely we are to get regulation (hint: platforms, esp meta, are a key intermediary) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Some of what we found isn't really feasible in the US (Singapore's shared liability framework for instance) but it shows the US can and should do more. We desperately need global cooperation on these issues.

We survey how countries around the world are regulating platforms, banks, telcos, & synthetic content to combat this growing problem which frauds people of billions every year. Countries are leveraging copyright law, labeling requirements, duty of care, banking regs, reporting regulations

Deepfake Financial Fraud

🚨NEW REPORT🚨 datasociety.net/library/deep... Deepfake Financial Fraud: The Global Regulation of AI-Driven Scams - a collab with Anya Schiffrin & Navya Sinha, Anusha Wangnoo, Kaylee Williams, Elnara Huseynova & Audrey Hatfield at @columbiasipa.bsky.social

fuck that guy forever

Yes I taught this in a grad seminar on feminism and tech a few years ago and it still resonates, and is so interesting and well-written

"Now is the time. Right? Now is the time to learn about these technologies...to push back against them." - @alicetiara.bsky.social

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In the early 2010s, I formed the Selfie Researcher Network with a bunch of other great comm/media/internet scholars. This week my dear husband fixed all the broken links and added it to Github. Witness 2014's most cutting edge scholarship: www.selfieresearchers.com

Shocking to no women in academia

I've read so many sci-fi novels where coffee becomes nonviable due to this, what will i do if this comes true

Feb 26: Join researchers @livgar.bsky.social & @briana-v.bsky.social, in conversation with Luca Belli, @mbogen.bsky.social & @marlynnweimd.bsky.social, as they explore ongoing research on mental health and chatbots, and how to navigate a profound shift in care. datasociety.net/events/menta...

UPDATE: ThredUp got back to me and despite claiming my bags were still stained and unfit to sell, credited me $100 for them. I am satisfied with that outcome but still won't be using the site again.

NO we totally should. Except now all my clothes have gone to ThredUp lol

At this point, I am going back to Goodwill/Buy Nothing. And I'm continuing to rent most of my clothes so that I don't accumulate clothes I don't wear. Even high end clothing has almost no resale value. There's just too much of it.

I washed both bags before sending and they were pristine. Guess which two items were rejected? Yup, those two. Why? For being "stained and/or unclean." Meanwhile, all the other stuff got listed. Redditors had warned me about employees stealing high-end stuff & selling it but I didn't listen.

I read a lot of Reddit threads and ascertained that the Premium bag would make the most sense. You send in a bag of clothes, they take $30 off the top and anything you make after that you keep. I sent mall fashion (Lulu, Madewell) plus two high value items: a Longchamp bag & Marc Jacobs diaper bag.

So I have a lot of clothes and am always experimenting with reselling. I don't have time/energy to sell on Poshmark (love buying there). RealReal is fine for high end. I used to do Beacon's/Crossroads/Buffalo but now I don't have time and they don't take much. So I tried ThredUp....

Not as much on the moon

On the other hand-- our invitations? METICULOUSLY DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED. Still think they were the prettiest invitations I've ever seen.

I hired a wedding planner for my wedding (13 years ago) and thank god I did. Even with that I was bad at making decisions. Like, what flowers do I want? I don't know. I don't care. White roses are fine.

I LOVED Wuthering Heights. I could go on about this all day, but I'm dismayed at the "online discourse" - it seems to be a) style over substance (yes, that's why the audience was all sobbing) b) unfaithful adaptation (absolutely the first time a filmmaker has ever done this) c) not enough sex (??!!)

Bonus: read my two papers on ConspiracyTok: In Social Media & Society [OA] journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... and the Journal of Info Tech & Politics tiara.org/wp-content/u... [PDF on my website]

What’s in the Epstein files? For Tiktokers, a content gold mine Driven by both institutional mistrust and the need to go viral, Epstein theories are clogging up TikTok.

I'm in @theverge.com today talking about how QAnon, ConspiracyTok, and actual conspiracies are colliding in the Epstein files: www.theverge.com/tech/878380/...