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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · 6d

I'm organising an ECR workshop this Friday with an incredible lineup of scholars. It's called 'A field guide to infrastructural analysis'. We only have space for 20, so there is a short application form. If you're in Edinburgh this week, please consider joining us!
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A field guide to infrastructural analysis An early career workshop with Julie Cohen, Gavin Sullivan and Morgan Currie | Edinburgh Law School

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Apr 17

Happy to see this out in the world! Please read if you're thinking critically about the fast adoption of content moderation systems like Community Notes, that combine crowdsourcing with bridging-based algorithmic ranking. These systems are being rolled out by X, YouTube, Meta and now TikTok.

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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Kateryna Kasianenko @kkasianenko.bsky.social · Mar 16

@olgarithmic.bsky.social and I just published an article in The Conversation, talking about global online resistance to russia's war on Ukraine (including #nafo) and how it connects to the complexities of social media platform moderation. Read it here: theconversation.com/three-years-...

Three years after Russia’s invasion, a global online army is still fighting for Ukraine

The North Atlantic Fella Organisation has devised creative ways to support the Ukrainian cause – while navigating the complexities of content moderation.

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Feb 5

"These scholars... all highlight the centrality of popular discontent with neoliberalism—whether as a project of governance, a type of rationality, or a set of economic policies—as key to understanding the resurgence of an authoritarian, nationalist, and anti-globalist Right"

Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · Feb 4

We here @citap.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @mariher.bsky.social & Kristóf Szombati, put together a timely and important reading list. Authoritarian Politics: How to Understand It and How to Resist It.
We hope you'll read, reflect, and share this tool broadly. 1/ citap.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Feb 4

We stress the importance of critically interrogating the design of content moderation systems, the problems they are oriented to solve, their contexts of use, and their risk of directly supporting and entrenching online harms.

X, YouTube, and now Meta are taking advantage of these successes, taking elements, then co-opting the language of ‘empowerment’ and ‘democracy’ to reduce moderation and market their techno-solutionist products as beneficial for the world. Research like ours is a useful reminder of the importance of critically interrogating platform content moderation systems, which involves paying attention to these systems’ design, the problems they are oriented to solve, their contexts of use, and their risk of directly supporting and entrenching online harms. There is an urgent need to think beyond technology to address the societal challenges often associated with the disinformation problem despite large tech companies' efforts to convince us otherwise. Media system reform, market-shaping approaches, and “big tent” civil society coalitions led by the Global Majority would be a fruitful start.

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Feb 4

Our @techpolicypress.bsky.social article is based on our recent paper examining Community Notes through the lens of humour. We find that CN enacts a narrow conception of disinformation that is ill-equipped to address hate and harm. eprints.qut.edu.au/254907/1/Mat...

Our research reveals a fundamental issue with the ‘community notes’ model as a preferred content moderation system: it is oriented toward addressing an outdated and extremely narrow understanding of disinformation, one that views falsity and fakeness as the problem alone, ignoring the historical, social, cultural, economic and political nature of disinformation. By examining the tool through the lens of humor, we show how the system fails to assess the harms or ‘check-worthiness’ of false narratives. This problem is a skill expert fact-checkers are trained to address, making Community Notes a poor substitute for culturally informed content moderation performed by a combination of experts, AI, and crowd workers situated in place and time.

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Feb 4

Thank you Tom ☺️ We felt our research really spoke to the global tech justice piece you wrote with @joncong.bsky.social on the impact of Meta's decisions for marginalised communities + regions grappling with deep-seated conflicts. CN is not designed to address harm + its ethos will likely sow harm.

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Jan 22

Went to a great talk on innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of drone testing in Australia last night, thanks so much @thaophan.bsky.social. The documentary below, interviewing people of Logan, is worth a watch. Logan is approx. 1h from my home.
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Observatory - Logan — Careful Industries

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Jan 20

I loved working with @ariadnamf.bsky.social on this. We conceptualise Community Notes as a "data infrastructure for soft moderation". CN has an operational logic that inscribes true-false, real-fake binaries, and fails to address false narratives that mobilise the ambiguities within humour to harm.

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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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Nov 20

No problem at all, Nicole! It’s what this place is for ☺️ I hope you find them useful!

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Nov 20

“Worryingly, critical researchers and specialist organizations are redirected by donors away from healing initiatives to conflict frames. 💔”

Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social · Nov 18

New GloTech study discusses these Qs: What can South-to-South knowledge exchange contribute to Tech and Democracy research? What are divergence points between Global North & South tech justice advocacies? How are so-called global “whole-of-society” coalitions extractive of “local partners”? 🧿 1/6

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics | HKS Misinformation Review

This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in history, culture, and politics, and centers questions of power and inequality. In the United States, identity, p...

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Fake News is Not a Virus: On Platforms and Their Effects

Abstract. This article attempts to uncover the intellectual, economic, and methodological structures that have led to the recent emergence of a particular

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Disinformation and the structural transformations of the public arena: addressing the actual challenges to democracy - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive

Current debate is dominated by fears of the threats of digital technology for democracy. One typical example is the perceived threats of malicious actors promoting disinformation through digital channels to sow confusion and exacerbate political divisions. The prominence of the threat of digital

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Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hi Nicole, I'm writing my PhD on shifting conceptions of disinformation within Australian policy discourses. I'll link to some readings I've found particularly useful below (have many more, if this is the kind of work you're looking for) ☺️

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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · Nov 15

We made a starter pack of researchers affiliated with the QUT Digital Media Research Centre

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