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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jul 24

where do you keep your "to read" links, and "have read, might need later" links, preferably with tags, now that Pocket is closing down? thanks!

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jul 21

Best team ever ❤️❤️❤️

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VØ₦ ฿Ø₲ ₩ł₮₵Ⱨ @bogwitch.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jul 1

the full body pleasure of unflagging 700 emails in one's flagged emails folder

a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in the back seat of a car .

Alt: a gif of Nicolas Cage having an out of body experience

media.tenor.com

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jun 25

I had some interviews done for a project with elderly social media users (by an elderly social media user) and these are the most delightful thing I have read in a long time

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Woodhull Freedom Foundation @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social · Jun 5

“Banning pornography may not concern those who object to its existence, but any attempt by the government to ban and censor protected speech is a threat to the First Amendment rights we all treasure," @riccilevy.bsky.social quoted by @404media.co this week.

www.404media.co/egg-yolk-pop...

The Egg Yolk Principle: Human Sexuality Will Always Outsmart Prudish Algorithms and Hateful Politicians

Anti-porn laws can't stop porn, but they can stop free speech. In the meantime, people will continue to get off to anything and everything.

www.404media.co

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · May 30

Patterns of surprise - a collab between the TRAVIS team (@perceptionalize.bsky.social & @andreaschaffer.bsky.social) & the ever-inspiring @annettemarkham.bsky.social on aggregated autoethnography, a method I really love. It's part of a SI available OA www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...

Patterns of Surprise and Ambivalence: Studying Social Media Visuality by Way of Aggregated Autoethnography | Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research

www.qualitative-research.net

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · May 13

As a follow-up to the launch of the Risky Research Report, this is an excellent seminar:

"Managing Threats to Academic Researchers Panel, Cambridge Disinformation Summit"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M9l...

Slide showing panel title "Manaing threats to research academics, featuring Emma Briant, Mutale Nkonde, Alice Marwick and Julia Ebner

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Apr 3

this is how AI gets us. NVM efficiency and productivity, it's the compliments to our intellect / research prowess: "I'm really glad it landed well! You've laid out such a rich, thoughtful project, and it's been a pleasure helping you shape this conceptual groundwork." #weredoomed #iforone

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Mar 15

Just as Putin, Orban and Trump all seem to recognize that tyrants have shared interests, so too we need to recognize that those who would be rid of tyrants too have shared interests that cross national borders.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Mar 15

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Mar 16

Best mail is books arriving in mail! I was excited to blurb this book - although they do tend to cut 70% of the nice, thoughtful things you have to say 😁. The Kids Are Online by @ysabel.bsky.social is smart, carefully researched, compassionate to varying anxieties in this space and so so timely

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Feb 18

It's been really great to be part of this project lead by Sarah Riley at Massey, and as someone who finds a lot of scoping review articles boring (but useful), I really do think this is a very cool scoping review method www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #scopingreview #trackingapps #research

Problematising menstrual tracking apps: presenting a novel critical scoping review methodology for mapping and interpreting research literature

To showcase a novel, theoretically informed methodology for conducting scoping reviews by operationalising critical theory. And to advance the field of women’s digital health by applying this criti...

www.tandfonline.com

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · Feb 13

We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started.

It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work.
You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians.

Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jan 14

New publication out from Kerli Kirch Schneider's awesome postdoc project that I had the pleasure of supervising. We write about Estonian pop music femininities based on the interviews Kerli did with Estonian artists, producers & other industry experts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Negotiating solidarity and competition: Estonian pop music femininities

This article explores how femininities in Estonian pop music are co-constituted by global postfeminist trends as well as local post-soviet attitudes and eco-nationalist folkloric beliefs. It uses v...

www.tandfonline.com

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jan 11

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candice roberts @popmediaprof.bsky.social · Jan 11

there's an excellent book that explains the history and sociocultural implications of tumblr— top notch research by @kattiid.bsky.social and colleagues
qa.store.wiley.com/en-us/Tumblr...

Tumblr

<p>Launched in 2007, tumblr became a safe haven for LGBT youth, social justice movements, and a counseling station for mental health issues. For a decade, this micro-blogging platform had more users t...

qa.store.wiley.com

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · Jan 9

Zuck positioned these changes as a return to history practice but, for these policy changes, that is untrue. The specific examples I called out above have been prohibited on the site since I wrote the first set of hate speech standards in 2009. 🧵 8/11

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · Jan 8

Great comments from my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @timothyjgraham.bsky.social on the substantial limitations and flaws of the ‘community notes’ model that #Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is wearing as a fig leaf while he’s cozying up to the Trumpist ‘alternative facts’ mob.

www.abc.net.au/news/...

Meta opts to leave fact-checking to unpaid users. What could go wrong?

Social media giant Meta has announced an Elon Musk-inspired solution to replace its independent fact-checking model on its platforms. Community Notes has been praised by its creator, but how effective is at curbing misinformation?

www.abc.net.au

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jan 8

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

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CNN @cnn.com · Jan 7

Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.

Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines | CNN Business

Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updat...

www.cnn.com

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jan 2

YES!
I just asked him, and got the same answer

Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jan 2

aha! mystery solved in an entirely obvious way, apparently it's from Fallout (the game).

Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · Jan 2

I just had to Shazam the song my 15-yo is listening to, because it is from ... wait for it ... 1941! By the Ink Spots, whose musical style, the internet tells me "predated the rhythm and blues and rock and roll musical genres, and the subgenre doo-wop." How did that even happen?

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