Kimberly A. Christen, "Does Information Really Want to be Free? Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Question of Openness." International Journal of Communication. 2012, Volume 6, 2870-2893.
ijoc.org/ojs/index.ph...
Karppi, T., & Crawford, K. (2016). Social Media, Financial Algorithms and the Hack Crash. Theory, Culture & Society, 33(1), 73-92.
doi.org/10.1177/0263...
nlp adjacent
Haimson, O. L., & Hoffmann, A. L. (2016). Constructing and enforcing "authentic" identity online: Facebook, real names, and non-normative identities. First Monday, 21(6). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...
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may be worth discussing the role of military/defense/intelligence funding in nlp. some discussion in jelinek's obituary,
Mark Liberman. 2010. Obituary: Fred Jelinek. Computational Linguistics, 36(4):595–599.
aclanthology.org/J10-4001/
Hallinan, B., Brubaker, J. R., & Fiesler, C. (2020). Unexpected expectations: Public reaction to the Facebook emotional contagion study. New Media & Society, 22(6), 1076-1094.
doi.org/10.1177/1747...
🎉 Excited to share a new agent evaluation perspective with our newly accepted #SIGIR2026 paper:
"Evaluation of Agents under Simulated AI Marketplace Dynamics."
arxiv.org/abs/2604.14256
@acmsigir.bsky.social
Announcing the release of the NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task participation guidelines: ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines.
Please reshare and spread the word. #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT
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note to self: robot flare bartender
Heres the link on Apple Podcasts and yes there is a transcript for access! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Diagram of the art-making process showing the four main phases, feedback loops, and moderating variables.
"Diagram of the art-making process showing the four main phases, feedback loops, and moderating variables."
Mary-Anne Mace & Tony Ward (2002) Modeling the Creative Process: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Creativity in the Domain of Art Making, Creativity Research Journal, 14:2, 179-192.
“Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.”
RIP Fred Wiseman
“Nobody in the world has acted in as many bad films as I have…I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that change from one thing to another…I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed…I tear myself apart on the screen”.
scene from "back to school" (1986) where rodney dangerfield hires a group of experts to complete his assignments.
“back to school” but rodney dangerfield uses wealth to pay for claude max
🎭 How do LLMs (mis)represent culture?
🧮 How often?
🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO!
At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322
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Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon. Human problem solving. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972.
Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!
Applications for graduate students in computing, sociology, humanities willing to participate in the FAccT 2026 Doctoral Colloquium are open! https://facctconference.org/2026/callfordc.html
what’s surprising here is less that these papers were written or accepted with fabricated citations, but that it’s a symptom that actually reading, understanding, and analyzing literature has deteriorated for both authors and reviews.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice & Mothra
as AI increasingly supports shopping and ads, it’s worth remembering that retrieval often shapes who gets exposure in final generated output. in a recent paper, @teknology.bsky.social uses methods from fair ranking to assess and address exposure bias in downstream generation.
841.io/doc/fairrag....
do syllabi still include the mythical man-month? one of the more valuable texts i purchased as an undergrad. and prolly still v relevant, if not moreso.
PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening.
mishmash.no/news/positio...
I am hiring a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. Topics of interest: (i) AI governance/regulation through computational and socio-technical lens, (ii) computational and socio-technical approaches to digital well-being. More information & how to apply:
We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17.
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
combination proctoring center-dunkin franchise. 👍
The influence of domain knowledge is huge when it comes to applied AI.
Domain expertise can prevent overengineering and/or unnecessary costs.
Working in the legal industry as an AI scientist it became obvious early on how crucial it is to build the bridge towards domain experts.
Every day.
📣 It's again that time of the year 🤩 - our internship call for the FATE team @ MSR Montreal and our collaborators is now up! 🎉🎉
We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI!
#FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025
Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein)
Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
if you work on "AI" and are concerned with social issues, you should apply to be the new director of the Tufts AI Institute: apply.interfolio.com/178311 (Need to be tenureable in one of our engineering departments, but it's explicitly open to people who work on human-oriented stuff.)