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I’m just back from a very quick trip to Rio de Janiero to take part in a conference put together by dear friend and colleague… Read More »Disinfo and Elections in the Global Majority

Kai-Cheng Yang is the creator of Botometer, which was – until 2023 – the state of the art for bot detection on Twitter. He’s a… Read More »Kai-Cheng Yang: The Social Bots are Coming…

One of my favorite things in academia is that you can go a decade without seeing a friend and remain at least somewhat in touch… Read More »Heather Ford: Is the Web Eating Itself? LLMs versus verifiability

It’s chilly here in western MA and there’s a hint of red starting to show in the leaves. This was the second full week of… Read More »What I Did On My Summer Vacation: 2023

Much of the Local Tech Ecology conference is a series of lightning talks at the Local Tech Ecologies conference at CU Boulder. Some short notes… Read More »Lightning Talks at CU Boulder Local Tech Economies

I’m at UC Boulder this morning at a conference organized by friend and colleague Nathan Schneider. He’s a professor of media studies who has done… Read More »Local Tech Ecologies: Fernanda Rosa on decolonizing technology