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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández

@ariadnamf.bsky.social

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Associate Professor at University College Dublin Social media cultures, platform governance, online harms, and algorithmic systems. Opinions are my own. She/her. Currently on maternity leave until Nov 2025

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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our paper (w @nadiajude.bsky.social) on Community Notes is out as part of the collection Empirical Approaches to Infrastructures for Datafication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... Thanks to the editors @stinelomborg.bsky.social @afrontiercity.bsky.social Jennifer Paybus and Signe Sophus Lai!

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UCDiSchool - UCD School of Information & Communication Studies @ucdischool.bsky.social · Apr 24

❗️Closing 🔜:

1️⃣ Lecturer - closes tomorrow 25 April

2️⃣ Lecturer - closes 28 April

Apply now! 👇

UCDiSchool - UCD School of Information & Communication Studies @ucdischool.bsky.social · Apr 8

📣Hiring:

1️⃣ Lecturer, permanent (job ref: 018437)

2️⃣ Lecturer, fixed 5 years (job ref: 018439)

3️⃣ Post-doctoral Research Fellow L1 (job ref: 018464)

🔜 Apply: www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...
(search: information & communication)

Pls share🙏
#job #lecturer #academicjobs #postdoc #research #UCD

Screen shots of current job vacancies in UCD School of Information and Communication Studies. Two Lecturer positions and one Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Level 1.
1. Lecturer, permanent (job ref: 018437)
2️.Lecturer, fixed 5 years (job ref: 018439)
3️.Post-doctoral Research Fellow L1 (job ref: 018464)

Apply link here: https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/
(type in the search: information & communication)

Screen shots of current job vacancies in UCD School of Information and Communication Studies. This one is for a Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 (job ref: 018464)

Apply link here: https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/
(type in the search: information & communication)

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · Apr 23

Every current paid AoIR member should have received instructions by email about how to vote in elections for the next AoIR Executive Committee.

AoIR is made of people.
AoIR members get to choose them.
Please vote.

(Polls will remain open until 12:00 noon, U.S. Eastern Time, May 1 2025.)

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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · Apr 17

Thanks, Blake! I hope you like it : )

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our TikTok data donation platform is finally public! We're inviting Australians to explore their TikTok data and discover their unique 'TikTok personality'.

Participate in the study: foryouparticipate.net/tiktok/

Read about our project: www.foryouresearch.net

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Mar 11

Kylie Jarrett in Toronto. March 21 4PM at the Faculty of Information/UofT. Infrastructures and Imaginaries: Reproducing Workers in the Platform Economy. Register here: forms.office.com/r/gKXwwgG9Rh @kylzjarrett.bsky.social

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Feb 25

Can't believe book pub day is here!! *Trans Technologies* is officially published today! Use discount code MITP30 for 30% off today only (unfortunately available only in the US) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...

Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson: 9780262551861 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology. Mainstream technologies often exclude or marginalize tran...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Feb 12

Submissions open until Feb 15!

platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 – Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · Feb 11

It’s arrived!! Very very thrilled to receive a copy of AGE OF DOUBT - a collection of essays for our time. It hits the shelves in less than a month!

publishing.monash.edu/product/age-...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Feb 10

🎤 Exciting Guest Lectures at UCD!

We are delighted to announce that lab member Paloma Viejo Otero will be delivering two guest lectures at @ucddublin.bsky.social, in the @ucdischool.bsky.social, alongside Associate Professor @ariadnamf.bsky.social and Professor Eugenia Siapera on February 18 & 20.

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Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social · Feb 4

Con @ariadnamf.bsky.social estamos organizando una sesión informativa en español para los y las interesadas en participar en #AoIR2025 — especialmente dirigido a colegas de universidades en LaTam.

Se pueden registrar aquí forms.gle/fhqyrPdrRzWL...

Agradecería que compartan la invitación!

Sesión informativa en español - AoIR2025 en Brasil

Durante esta sesión informativa vamos a extender una invitación a investigadores e investigadoras de Latinoamérica a participar en la conferencia AoIR2025 (Asociación de Investigadores de Internet, en...

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Feb 4

(1/2) 🎧 ADM+S In Conversation.

#7. Meta’s Misinformation Shift: A decision to Ditch the Experts with @silmonn.bsky.social 👉🏼 open.spotify.com/episode/1bZr...

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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · Feb 3

Our piece on Community Notes and its narrow understanding of the disinformation problem is now live on @techpolicypress.bsky.social. It is based on our paper on the topic, which can be found here: eprints.qut.edu.au/254907/1/Mat...

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Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Feb 3

🚨🚨 New publication with @eddyhurc.bsky.social, @antmandan.bsky.social, and @voddenlaura.bsky.social:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

(thread below)

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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · Jan 20

Wonderful! and thank you :) Let's keep chatting then!

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Paloma Viejo Otero @palomaviot.bsky.social · Jan 20

Submit your proposals!!!
AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025
From Platform Governance to Generative AI:
Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance
Date: 3-4 June 2025. Bremen, Germany.
Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology, Centre for Media platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 – Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)

platform-governance.org

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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · Jan 19

Amidst Meta's content moderation changes, @nadiajude.bsky.social and I have a new paper in press on how the 'Community Notes' model corrects narrow understandings of the disinformation problem eprints.qut.edu.au/254907/1/Mat... We're also preparing a piece for Tech Policy Press that we'll share soon

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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · Jan 19

happy to discuss Christian!

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