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After the whole #reddit #experiment using #AI to manipulate people on "Change My View," the network of #alternativeSocialMedia researchers has launched a forum on research ethics in ASM. You can see the first two entries here:

www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/05/07/a...
Ethics in Alternative Social Media Research: A Forum
Earlier this month, news broke that an anonymous research team from the University of Zurich had conducted an experiment on Reddit’s “Change My View” subreddit. Briefly, the experiment involved using ...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The latest Alternative Social Media researcher interview is with Ashwin Nagappa! Read it here:

www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/04/27/n...
Researcher Interview: Ashwin Nagappa
In this ASM researcher interview, Robert W. Gehl talks to Ashwin Ngappa. Ashwin is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the QUT node of ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society...
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April 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Latest post on our blog: a Researcher Interview with Jamie Theophilos, who recently published an article in Social Media + Society on the "free fediverse" movement:

socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/03/07/t...

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Researcher Interview: Jamie Theophilos
In this first ASM researcher interview, Robert W. Gehl talks to Jamie Theophilos. Jamie is a doctoral candidate and associate instructor at the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. Recently...
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March 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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New post on the Network of Alernative Social Media Researchers network blog: "Scuples, ROOST, and Conversation." socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/02/14/s...

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Scruples, ROOST, and Conversation
Over on my FOSS Academic blog, I would regularly post “ASM Updates” – basically, my own roundup of stuff that caught my eye in the world of alternative social media. I think it’s appropriate to bring ...
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February 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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I spoke to @waresgemma.bsky.social and the @ConversationCA Podcast about decentralized social media:

https://theconversation.com/decentralised-social-media-offers-an-alternative-to-big-tech-platforms-like-x-and-meta-how-does-it-work-podcast-249758

The episode discusses Twitter/X, Bluesky, and […]
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February 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Our homepage has a new blog post by @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy, where he provides a brief overview of alternative social media research from ~2008 up to today:

www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/02/07/a...
A Brief History of Alternative Social Media Scholarship
Along with Roel Roscam Abbing, I am working on a paper, tentatively titled “What is ‘Alternative’ about Alternative Social Media?”. Our hope is to write something definitive – describing alternative s...
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February 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Hi, all, here's an #introduction! This is the Bluesky account for the Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers. We're a group of scholars who explore the world of alternative social media. Our homepage is socialmediaalternatives.org
February 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM