Hello Bluesky friends & colleagues. I don’t normally post about my papers but thought it fitting that my first message draws attention to why I am here and not on X. A study we’ve just published on conspiracy thinking, fake news & epistemic trust: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Hello! Lovely to see you here! X
Exploring potential benefits of social media in an autistic adults population. If you are an #autistic adult living in the UK pl consider taking part in our study on online masking & authentic self-presentation & its relationship to autistic wellbeing. @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social
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Hello to all new followers
First gen academic, 11 years in the UK
I research, teach & train on neurodiversity and mental health
Passionate about creative community based participatory methods
Funded on a/preventing depression in #adhd #autistic students b/interpersonal therapy with autistic adults
Makes me think about how has shaped today's ideas about technology (utopian & distopian) & the inevitability or otherwise of developments we've seen.
Currently reading this really interesting book, which explores how a digital utopianism was born from a bizarre & (arguably) unlikely movement in 60s counterculture to adopt WWII / cold war practices & technologies based on the metaphor of the network (think Gregory Bateson & Buckminster Fuller).
Wondering if there is a way to avoid. Would that necessarily require some form of control / censorship, & hence you are back in the same space, just different controllers? Genuinely a question rather than a statement of belief.
Is it possible to create a different space / way of communicating on Bluesky (or similar), or is a pull towards an attention economy (& everything that brings) an inevitable consequence of scale?
Hello world.
