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Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org .. more

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Alice E. Marwick is a communication scholar, academic, and author, who currently works as an Associate Professor in the Communication department and Principal Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an affiliated researcher with the Data and Society Research Institute. Marwick has written for publications such as the New York Times, and the Guardian. Her works include the examination of politics, race, social media and gender. She has been a keynote speaker for various universities throughout the United States. .. more

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Dec 4

Wrote a big hot take for Nieman’s 2025 predictions & managed to shoehorn in a lot of pet peeves while using “epistemic” sparingly www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy

"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental schis...

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ ON AIR:

We're talking to journalist @maxread.info, @datasociety.bsky.social's @alicetiara.bsky.social and @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the impact that increasingly realistic deepfake videos could have on our society.

❓Are AI videos changing how you use the internet?

📻 Listen:

Deepfake Videos Just Got More Realistic…and More Dangerous | KQED

We talk about OpenAI's Sora and what kind of destabilizing impact could it have on our society.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 6d

This was such a great convo and thrilled to be part of a whole series on scams and schemes. Thanks @alixdunn.com !

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 6d

How is AI changing the nature of scams? @lanalanalana.bsky.social & @alicetiara.bsky.social spoke to @alixdunn.com on @themaybe.org to explain how AI automates & scales the work already being done in massive, exploitative “cybercrime compounds” around the world. www.themaybe.org/podcast/gotc...

The Maybe

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 6d

The Maybe

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 6d

it searched for "quality" work not "qualitative" work - I rephrased my Q and didn't get great answers. ChatGPT says: Big Data & Society
Science, Technology & Human Values
AI & Society
Social Studies of Science
Catalyst
New Media & Society
Information, Communication & Society
(no surprises there)

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 6d

Are there any AI-specific journals that publish qual work?

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 21d

fantastic op-ed from my D&S colleagues Ranjit Singh and Livia Garofolo about the needs of guardrails on general purpose LLMs for mental health undark.org/2025/09/18/o...

AI Chatbots Need Guardrails to Protect Users’ Mental Health

Opinion | Chatbots are designed to keep people engaged. But without certain boundaries, AI-driven conversations could cause harm.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 23d

Come back to media studies/comm! I can give you some recs for journals that publish more critical and interpretive work.

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 24d

Yup the media equation. I've actually never encountered this theory -- disciplinary difference-- but apparently it is dominant in human-ai interaction theory and i need to position my work in relation to it.

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 24d

hey y'all, working on an R&R and I need some good criticisms of CASA (computers as social actors) applied to AI. I'm having a really hard time finding good articles or overviews. Any suggestions? I already have Suchman.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Aug 25

Same, I feel pulled between disconnecting for my mental health and feeling bad about the privilege I have to disconnect

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Aug 24

I meant every word! It’s great.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Aug 18

First up, on September 5 @ 6 pm ET: a grounding conversation about how AI technologies are reshaping daily life, featuring ‪D&S director of research @alicetiara.bsky.social, advisors @merbroussard.bsky.social & Mimi Ọnụọha, & board member @geomblog.bsky.social. www.showclix.com/event/unders...

Text on an blue and orange background with the title of the September 5, 2025 event, Understanding AI: What the Public Needs to Know. It includes a list of the speakers: Alice Marwick, Meredith Broussard, Mimi Onuoha, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Join us online or live in NYC at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) at 6 pm ET.

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hi hello @onthemedia.bsky.social is rerunning some interviews I did. One with @beccalew.bsky.social and another with Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team. The episode also features @mmasnick.bsky.social, and @mollyfication.bsky.social’s excellent interview with @amandahess.bsky.social. Great show! Listen:

Silicon Valley's Rightwing Roots. Plus, the CEO of Bluesky Reimagines Social Media | On the Media | WNYC Studios

When Donald Trump returned to office, tech companies donated millions of dollars to his inaugural committee. On this week’s On the Media, the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley. Plus, ...

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yes, mean world syndrome! once again i love media effects

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Aug 12

Gerbner revival

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 29

I live in Manhattan and interact with a lot of tech, finance, media people— many of whom are very close friends and I love!- but others who act like they’re gonna get shot if they go below the mason-Dixon. I didn’t mean “everyone in the NE”, I literally meant the privileged class.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 28

Seriously. As a NYCer who lived in NC for four years and is married to a SC native, northeastern elites, broadly, have very little understanding (more accurately, deep misunderstanding) of the South in general, Southern politics, Southern culture, or Southern racial dynamics, and it is tiresome.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 23

Basically!!!

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm looking for smart people doing interesting work on what AI means for scientific knowledge production & epistemology.. any recs? I already know @mjcrockett.bsky.social of course

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Katie Furl @katherinefurl.bsky.social · Jul 22

New work from @alicetiara.bsky.social‬, Courtlyn Pippert, Elaine Schnabel, and me recently published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/6)

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 22

Data Centers Aren't the Future of American Prosperity- @tamigraph.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social bust the myths of data centers: they don't massively increase jobs, they don't increase clean energy investment, and they don't benefit local communities! OH SNAP datasociety.net/library/data...

Data Centers Aren’t the Future of American Prosperity

Tamara Kneese and Maia Woluchem cut through lobbying points and speculative myths to focus on what the evidence reveals about the tech industry’s claims.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Jul 22

New: As Trump prepares to unveil his "AI Action Plan," more than 80 labor, environmental, consumer and tech watchdog groups have signed on to a "People's AI Action Plan" that calls for regulations that put ordinary people's interests over those of the industry. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Trump’s ‘Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’ is already stirring debate

Critics unveiled their own “People’s AI Action Plan” ahead of new executive orders expected to address energy and “woke” AI.

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Ken Chih-Yan Sun @kcsun1015.bsky.social · Jul 18

Villanova University, where I am currently working, has a position in digital sociology and/or STS studies. I am not on the search committee and happy to answer any questions you may have.

www.higheredjobs.com/state/detail...

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 15

I am so incredibly sad to hear about the passing of Brandi Collins-Dexter, a wonderful writer, researcher, and activist. My thoughts go out to her friends, family, and colleagues.❤️

MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · Jul 14

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share the devastating news that our dear friend, longtime collaborator, and former staff member, Brandi Collins-Dexter, has passed away.

Read our full statement, honoring Brandi's legacy in our movement and our hearts.
mediajustice.org/news/honorin...

A photo collage with four images featuring Brandi Collins-Dexter, a longtime MJ comrade and friend who recently passed away.

Text reads, "Honoring the brilliant Brandi Collins-Dexter. A dear friend, longtime MJ collaborator, and influential movement strategist.

Rest in Power, Brandi."

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 13

Omg I had my colors done in junior high and it stayed with me for years! (I am a “vivid winter”)

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Jul 11

User-generated videos of aggressive ICE raids remind Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social of how the Black Lives Matter mvmt used eyewitness video to reveal the reality of a problem. “These videos show this isn’t business as usual,” she tells @nbcnews.com‬. www.nbcnews.com/specials/tru...

How user-generated videos on social media brought Trump’s immigration crackdown to America’s screens

The videos have become a crucial window into the U.S. government’s aggressive efforts to find and apprehend undocumented immigrants.

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · Jul 11

After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument
www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-tran...

After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument

The "History and Culture" page no longer includes bisexual rights.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 10

TIL that Usenet was invented by UNC-CH/Duke to share articles across campuses. How did I never know this?

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · Jul 10

BIG NEWS: After a long investigation we have uncovered that Axon's Draft One--a program that uses genAI to write police reports based on body-worn camera audio--is *designed* not to retain the data on which parts were written by an officer and which parts were written by AI. A looming disaster.

Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that...

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