Enthusiast! PhD at @UniWestminster studying persuasive design features and datafication, plus lecturing in data and society. Music pr tweets at @CreateSpark
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ICYMI my blog about turning early career researcher challenges into successes thanks to @digitalgoodnet's summer school is now up on @UoW_CAMRI's site ✨
camri.ac.uk/blog/2024/11/06/…
@UniWestminster @UoW_GradSchool
I wrote a thoughtful piece on how attending the first @digitalgoodnet summer school helped me to become more confident talking about my PhD work in persuasive design features. Happily repping @UoW_CAMRI at @UniWestminster as always, link below.
PhD student, @akaDebbieBall, joins us on the blog to talk about learning and growing following the 2023 Digital Good Network Summer School.
digitalgood.net/learning-and…
#digitalgood
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Happy #NationalAuthorsDay! To celebrate, we want to spotlight some of our favorite books about tech and ethical AI, starting off with the bestselling book #UnmaskingAI by @jovialjoy. 📚
To learn more about algorithms, AI, and justice in the tech space, swipe through our AJL recommended reading list!
Slide 1: Unmasking AI by Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Slide 2: Design Justice by @schock and The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation by @mathbabedotorg
Slide 3: Automating Inequality by @PopTechWorks and More Than a Glitch by @merbroussard
Slide 4: Viral Justice by @ruha9 and Algorithms of Oppression by @safiyanoble
ALT There is a dark background with a hexagonal pattern and a red AJL logo in the top right corner. There is an image of the paperback cover of Unmasking AI next to white text that reads "“Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been an essential figure in bringing irresponsible, profit-hungry tech giants to their knees. If you’re going to read only one book about AI, this should be it.” Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation. #UnmaskingAI."
ALT There is a red AJL logo in the top right corner and images of the covers of Design Justice and The Shame Machine.
ALT There is a red AJL logo in the top right corner and images of the covers of Automatic Inequality and More than a Glitch.
ALT There is a red AJL logo in the top right corner and images of the covers of Viral Justice and Algorithms of Oppression.
Yesterday at #AOIR2024 was great & gave my brain a good workout.
I enjoyed Brady Robards presentation a lot about young peoples' attitudes to unhealthy Instagram advertising. Then the excellent States, Platforms & AI w Thomas Poell, @LinaDencik, @stinelomborg & @MarkAndrejevic
Took part in some incredible #AOIR2024 workshops and talks yesterday by Platform Governance Archive. It is also true that this conference is super friendly and welcoming!
Snapshot from Nik John's @AoIR_org opening talk from the plenary last night
@UoW_CAMRI @UoW_GradSchool
Debbie Ball @[email protected] retweeted
How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: troubling-ai.glitch.me/
#ai #genai #chatgpt #midjourney #mediastudies #internetstudies #artificialintelligence
Excited for the #AoIR2024 pre-conference workshop on archiving at Uni of Sheffield - here we go 🙌
One for the academic timeline too! @ByDonkeys powerful art activism work is a socially conscious lifeline for society.
Looking forward to reading this too, fyi @AndreaMMedrado @AnastasiaKavada
Looking forward to this, new @ByDonkeys book out this week, signed copies available through @bookshop_org_UK as well 👍
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780…
Debbie Ball @[email protected] retweeted
new open access paper out!
i discuss the infrastructural role of the joe rogan experience podcast and its cultural role within platformisation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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⚡️Excited to announce some important news!! ⚡️
📢 Data, Culture and Society MA --> AI, Data and Communication MA 📢
#AI #data #communication
@UniWestminster @UoW_CAMRI
Debbie Ball @[email protected] retweeted
Our masters in Data, Culture and Society has got a new name! 💛
🔗 Find out more about our AI, Data and Communication course: bit.ly/3VsWKit
⚡️Excited to announce some important news!! ⚡️
📢 Data, Culture and Society MA --> AI, Data and Communication MA 📢
#AI #data #communication
@UniWestminster @UoW_CAMRI
Also: neural wristbands so we don't have to use our hands to type? Unsure if this is genius or madness... youtu.be/m88OV10vRLA?si=_kzY…
Debbie Ball @[email protected] retweeted
i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up
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When is a keynote speech about the 'digital good' NOT a keynote speech?
When it's an Off-Key Note Session at our 2024 Summer School in #Sheffield
Join us for an event different to the norm.
With @alxndrt @JohnnyHistone @VIOLETSrFL0WERS
& @roswillz
digitalgood.net/the-good-in-…
Debbie Ball @[email protected] retweeted
we need to protect critical thinking in the face of the customer-care-ification of uk higher ed @GoldsmithsUoL @GoldsmithsUCU #notadonedeal
A university that spends over £1m on private consultants seeking advice on how to sack staff it says it can't afford really needs to look at itself. Meanwhile amazing to see students & academics standing with @GoldsmithsUCU to fight for jobs. It's #notadonedeal @GoldsmithsUoL
.@ByDonkeys doing the righteous work ✊
Debbie Ball @[email protected] retweeted
Good news from Latin America ♥️💪🏽 and Mexico’s first woman presidenta 🎉
Mexico has elected Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist, as their new President.
newrepublic.com/article/1820…
Another day, another potential data violation from META. At least they gave some of us in the UK + EU the ability to object via their privacy update email today. Fill out this form to object to META using your Instagram content to train new AI products >>> help.instagram.com/contact/2…