🗳️ Joined a great EODS (Election Observation and Democracy Support) webinar on #AI & #Elections with @corneliabrantner.bsky.social & @profkarlsson.bsky.social ‬
We discussed AI chatbot info flows during Taiwan’s 2024 election. Thanks to Claudia Aranda for the invite 💛
#GenAI #Media #Democracy #News

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

www.wired.com/story/new-re...

Sourcing behavior and the role of news media in AI-powered search engines in the digital media ecosystem: Comparing political news retrieval across five languages This study examines the role of news media in the context of generative AI-enhanced search engines, focusing on the 2024 Taiwan presidential election.…

🚀 New paper out in Telecommunications Policy! We studied how Copilot retrieves election news in 5 languages using the 2024 Taiwan election as a case. @corneliabrantner.bsky.social @profkarlsson.bsky.social
Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AI #Journalism #DigitalPolicy #OpenAccess

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us

🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights".
Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased.
ai.google/responsibili...

THE DARK SIDE OF LLM-POWERED CHATBOTS: MISINFORMATION, BIASES, CONTENT MODERATION CHALLENGES IN POLITICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

🗳️ Can we trust AI chatbots for political info? Our new study on the 2024 Taiwan presidential election finds troubling disparities in LLM chatbot responses across languages.
🔗 Read more on @aoir.bsky.social: spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.ph...
#PoliticalInfo #AlgorithmicBias #TaiwanElection #DigitalMedia

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.

New: the company behind Pokemon Go has announced it is using data collected by its millions of players to build an AI model that can navigate the real world, and could be used for robots. Doubt Pokemon Go players anticipated contributing data to this project www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...

Join our next Geomedia Speaker Series online seminar!

URBAN ECONOMIES OF DISPLAY
3 December 2024
14:00-15:30 (Sweden)

We will explore how cities and their economies are increasingly shaped by displays of identity, authenticity, and social media.

More info and Zoom-link
lnkd.in/dPPdyVWA

Since we're all making starter packs, here's one dedicated to journals and conferences in communication, political science, media, public opinion, etc. Let me know what I've missed! go.bsky.app/B4h2y66 #polisci #comm

I’ve created a starter pack for #scholars of (digital) #activism and social movements. Please check it out to find people you might be interested in connecting with!

Let me also know if you’d like to be included in the pack.

#protests #research #AcademicSky
go.bsky.app/DN73Mqz

Open post-doctoral researcher position in Computational Social Science @TU_Muenchen - please share the information! #CSS More info here: www.hfp.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Congrats to Siegfried Müller for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis "The Influence of Communication and Support Networks on Leadership and Team Dynamics in Massively Multiplayer Online Games". Thank to @corneliabrantner.bsky.social for co-supervising & Florian Egli for chairing the defense. 🎉🥳

GEOMEDIA PANEL: DIGITAL WORK GEOGRAPHIES February 22, 2024, 14:00-16:00 More info and Zoom Link: kau.se/.../conferen...
#geomedia #karlstaduniversitet #geomediaspeakerseries #digitalwork #geographies

AI Act deal: Key safeguards and dangerous loopholes - AlgorithmWatch CH After a negotiation marathon in the global spotlight, EU lawmakers closed a deal late Friday night on the AI Act, the EU’s law on regulating the development and use of Artificial Intelligence system...

🥁 AI Act deal: Key safeguards & dangerous loopholes

After a negotiation marathon in the global spotlight, EU lawmakers closed a deal last night on the #AI Act.

Read AlgorithmWatch‘s statement: algorithmwatch.ch/en/ai-act-de...

The Geomedia Centre has an exciting online seminar coming up! Just tune in on Nov 14 at 1:00pm and enjoy the talk by
Bernard Dionysius Goeghegan on "SEEING AND SEAFARING: HOW THE SCOPIC REGIME OF COMPUTATION WAS MOBILISED" +discussion with Visiting Prof Pablo Abend. Info: shorturl.at/ryCK8

Der Verschluss soll dran bleiben, damit er mit der Flasche recycelt wird. Auf YouTube gibt es bestimmt Erklärvideos, wie du das Gekleckere vermeiden kannst. Und ja, es gibt dazu eine EU Richtlinie.

📢 Our study explores Austrian media discourses on responsibility regarding social media algorithms and social companions. Inter alia, findings reveal distinct perspectives on the agency and responsibility of social media algorithms and social robots themselves. doi.org/10.1177/1461...

The Geomedia Centre has an exciting online seminar coming up! Just tune in on Nov 14 at 1:00pm and enjoy the talk by
Bernard Dionysius Goeghegan on "SEEING AND SEAFARING: HOW THE SCOPIC REGIME OF COMPUTATION WAS MOBILISED" +discussion with Visiting Prof Pablo Abend. Info: shorturl.at/ryCK8