The block log: 20 years of content moderation on Wikipedia - Ryan McGrady, 2025 This study examines two decades of user blocking on the English Wikipedia to understand how a volunteer-run, non-profit platform has adapted its content moderat...

New paper out today: The Blocklog: 20 Years of Content Moderation on Wikipedia. In New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New short paper on "The Ethics of Accidental Vlogs" in M/C Journal today, written with my
@idpiumass.bsky.social
colleague Harshita Snehi. Accidental vlogs as in publicly visible videos for private/small audiences (esp. common in Hindi YouTube). journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...

Vetter, M.A., Jiang, J. & McDowell, Z.J. An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability. AI & Soc (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...

- T-minus 180 minutes and counting -
Book launch for "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social 5pm at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague 🇨🇿

The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear - Brent Lucia, Matthew Vetter, Varshil Patel, 2025 The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022 catalyzed a wave of excitement and apprehension, but especially fear. This article examines the dystopian narratives that...

New work out with Brent Lucia and Varshil Patel - "The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear" - published in Convergence

This piece is a critical analysis of media responses following the public advent of ChatGPT in 2022.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI crawlers taking its content to train generative AI models. It has to find a w...

AI companies inundating Wikimedia per @engadget.bsky.social - In recent years, it's felt like @wikimediafoundation.org leadership has done an about-face on @wikicommons.bsky.social, deprioritizing it/rethinking its purpose. Wondering now if this is the context...
www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia...

is there any reason at all that the Democratic party should not immediately demand Hegseth's resignation?

A Catalyst for Curiosity

"Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge" :
wikenigma.org.uk#dokuwiki__co...

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”

“AI fairness” is so ridiculous it’s maddening. The level of bias inherent in data only ensures you will amplify previous issues - just faster and stronger and more “efficiently” (but using 100x more power and money?)

www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

In an era when gaming literacy is fundamental to understanding popular culture and technological power, 'Ready Reader One' examines the role of videogame literature in explaining not only how we play videogames, but the stories we tell with, about, and around them.
lsupress.org/978080718089...

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In uncertain times, access to reliable information is more crucial than ever. Revisit this paper by Zachary McDowell and Matthew Vetter to highlight Wikipedia’s community policies and procedures.

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Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates | CNN Business President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to impose a massive tariff on European alcohol in response to the European Union’s retaliation against his steel and aluminum tariffs – a tit-for-tat esca...

First they came for our paper products and they didn’t understand that meant toilet paper, so they didn’t protest… then they came for wine and …. Bad things happened?

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We received 64 submissions for #WikiWorkshop2025 🙌

A huge thank you to the @wikiresearch.bsky.social community for such an amazing engagement. Our reviewers will be diving into them in the coming weeks... stay tuned! 🔍📖

Final reminder for the call for submissions for Wiki Workshop 2025: There are 3 days left to submit your extended abstracts (max 2 pages) until the submission deadline on *March 9, 2025 23:59 AoE*
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

The journal I edit, *communication +1* just released a new special issue on #MediaAesthetics that might be of some interest to my academic and humanistically minded friends. The journal is fully #openaccess so please check it out. communicationplusone.org

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...

The special issue includes this (very timely) article by @darthvetter.bsky.social, Jialei Jiang & @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social :

"An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability" doi.org/10.1007/s001...
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Trump Costs America Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs.

trumpcostsamerica.com

An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability - AI & SOCIETY As a collaboratively edited and open-access knowledge archive, Wikipedia offers a vast dataset for training artificial intelligence (AI) applications and models, enhancing data accessibility and acces...

A new article I coauthored with @darthvetter.bsky.social is out today in AI and Society, "An Endangered Species: How LLMs threaten Wikipedia's sustainability" #wikipedia #wikiresearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for Papers for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out: Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome).
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

Invaluable work.

The repeal of the Biden administration's executive order regarding AI is extremely dangerous. That an administration paid for by tech billionaires is behind the repeal should alarm everyone.

📣CFP for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out📣 Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about #Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome). meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

(PDF) Evolving Rhetorical Canons PDF | Table 1. An evolving framework of the five rhetorical canons, including the classical understanding, digital understanding, and GenAI-assisted... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

The most exciting part about this research was getting to theorize how genAI might prompt us to reimagine the rhetorical canons (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery) - check out our table below and at dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....

(PDF) From Hype to Practice: Reinterpreting the Writing Process Through Technical Writing Students’ Engagement with ChatGPT PDF | Guided by the scholarly understanding of generative artificial intelligence, this study explores technical writing students’ engagement with... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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