Kiitokset @skr.fi tämänkin ajattelun mahdollistamisesta!

Kiitokset @skr.fi tämänkin ajattelun mahdollistamisesta!

Sorry, I just saw this! Thankfully you got the (positive) answer via e-mail already!

How are ideologies present in Human-Computer Interaction research? Join our #CHI2026 workshop to think about this with us!

📅 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026

Find more information & submission instructions here: ideologies.digital

#HCI #Design

How are ideologies present in Human-Computer Interaction research? Join our #CHI2026 workshop to think about this with us!

📅 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026

Find more information & submission instructions here: ideologies.digital

#HCI #Design

Hilarious Golden Retriever Really Wants To Race But.. First Things First. YouTube video by Golden Retriever Lovers

This is still by far the greatest moment in the history of Finnish television entertainment www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iTT...

Tenure-track assistant professorship in empirical communication research

Interested in joining a vibrant hub for research on human and societal consequences of digital communication and datafication? We're hiring a new TT assistant professor at Center for Tracking & Society in Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track...

A picture of an excerpt from the "Identities and interactions" book illustrating the rich language it has been written in

Something drove me to order a used copy of Identities and Interactions by McCall and Simmons (1978) from the other side of the world, despite having previously borrowed it from the library. Much of it may be attributed to how captivatingly it has been written:

Lectio Praecursoria: Credibility-building for social science big data Problems in deploying new digital materials and methods in social research should be understood as – perhaps primarily – challenges in reconciling diverging epistemic conceptions across fields and …

Problems in deploying digital materials and methods in social research should be understood as—perhaps primarily—challenges in reconciling diverging epistemic conceptions across fields and communities, suggests Juho Pääkkönen in his PhD. Read the lectio praecursoria:
rajapinta.co/2025/12/04/l...

A room lit up orange, with Speaker on the left with big presentation slide saying Right prefers Popularity based visibility on the right.

What a lovely #cscw2025 session of authors, papers and audience we had on "bipartisan discourse online". 😍

With Pooja Casula, @richmondywong.bsky.social, Sarchin Pendse and Marina Kogan, @jhaapj.bsky.social and more...

Check out the papers: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/my...

Not Just 'For You': How the Algorithmic Crystal Mediates Communication and Identity Work on TikTok's FYP | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Personalized algorithms are central to how people discover information and engage with media online. Drawing on interviews and screen-sharing sessions with TikTok users (N=27), we extend the algorithm...

I presented our work yesterday at #CSCW2025 extending the algorithmic crystal framework to the social self to account for the increasingly socially-infused nature of personalized algorithms...🧬🔮✨

If you missed it, you can check out our paper here:

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Affordances and Design Principles of The Political Left and Right | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Like any form of technology, social media services embed values. To examine how societal values may be present in these systems, we focus on exploring political ideology as a value system. We organise...

Back from my hiatus on here to announce our first study on Digital Ideologies. With @jhaapj.bsky.social and @matnel.bsky.social we explored connections between the affordances of social media and political ideologies.
There are differences… 🧵

📄 Get the #CSCW paper at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

@eppfel.bsky.social will be presenting this work next Wednesday at #CSCW2025!

Affordances and Design Principles of The Political Left and Right | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Like any form of technology, social media services embed values. To examine how societal values may be present in these systems, we focus on exploring political ideology as a value system. We organise...

New article out, just in time before #CSCW2025!

This piece, by @eppfel.bsky.social, me and @matnel.bsky.social, looks at what happens if we ask politicians with different ideological leanings and party affiliations to design social media services.

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#hcisky #hci #CSCW

Abstract for the new Platforms & Society article "Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba: Twitch's controversial metas as cultural negotiations of platform governance" by CJ Reynolds.

🚨New publication alert! This one was a personal favorite of mine to work on, including fun facts about such topics as streamers farting into microphones for money. “Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba” is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📚 New paper alert! 🌎 "Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on digital platform companies’ environmental discourse" was just published in Platforms & Society, a new-ish journal focused on critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization. (1/x)

Millainen on ihanteellinen poliittisen sosiaalisen median keskustelun osallistuja? Sosiaalisen median poliittisilla keskusteluilla on huono maine. Tuoreen artikkelimme mukaan ihanteellista verkkokeskustelun osallistujaa määrittää pätevyys, vastuullisuus ja vilpittömyys, sekä sito…

Jos käyttäjät saisivat päättää, minkälainen olisi ihanteellinen poliittisen sosiaalisen median keskustelun osallistuja? Tätä selvittivät @jhaapj.bsky.social ja kollegat tuoreessa artikkelissaan. Tuloksissa korostuvat muun muassa pätevyys ja vastuullisuus.

rajapinta.co/2025/09/22/m...

What makes an ideal participant of social media political discussions? One only needs to log in to services such as X or BlueSky to see that one prominent way of using social media is to discuss politics with peers.

We had a paper on ideal participants for social media political discussions in #dis2025. While it is a bit late to advertise that paper, I did write a short post about the paper to our research group's substack: sociallycompute.substack.com/p/what-makes...

Onnittelut!

APA has dropped this requirement, hopefully other styles will follow their example

"is this a pigeon?" meme, except it's a writer looking at a perfectly normal first draft and asking "Is this the worst thing ever written?"

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

DL just around the corner! Apply by May 15 if you're interested in advancing research on theory translation and games

Time to wipe your Soundcloud, y'all. Anything on there can be used for AI training per the new Terms and Conditions.

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CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...

Feminists’ attitudes towards men – Six studies, in the most systematic examination yet of feminists’ actual and perceived attitudes toward men, find that feminists’ attitudes toward men are broadly positive and broadly similar to other people’s attitudes toward men.
Findings:
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What a nightmare. Credit to Deezer for going public about the extent of the problem.

Infographic promoting the key concept from the paper. Text reads: "Aspirational platform governance: Public expression of the desire to influence content moderation policies and practices without established channels or guarantees of success. (Hallinan, Reynolds, Kuperberg, & Rothenstein 2025)" along with a QR code that contains a link to the article: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/aspirational-platform-governance

What do creators do when they feel that social media platforms aren’t treating them fairly? Our study of a controversy about racism and bias on YouTube, out now #openaccess in @policyr.bsky.social, offers a new answer: they participate in aspirational platform governance doi.org/10.14763/202...

🔥CFP HOT OFF THE PRESS!🔥 I'm really excited to be editing this special issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI with @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and Daphne Idiz for AI & Society. Abstract submission deadline 30th June, get in touch with questions!

MORE INFO: link.springer.com/journal/146/...

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