I wrote a piece for @slate.com on Gen Z, sexism, and why the “most progressive generation ever” narrative misses something important.
Short version: Gen Z is uniquely progressive on race. On gender, not so much.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Daily average post count by ideological lean. Hyper-partisan accounts, i.e., respondents who self-identify as “very liberal” and “very conservative,” are generally the most active.
After the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, many users were kicked off Twitter. A study shows the “great deplatforming” caused a short spike in extremism but made the site less partisan a year later—a pattern not seen on Reddit. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/Chzq50XuORu
An image of the workshop agenda
Excited to share the agenda for the Global Elections and Information Security workshop at WebSci 2025 this year!
Keynotes by the excellent Jo Lukito of UT-Austin and Dhanaraj Thakur of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
@noupside.bsky.social introduced me to Jooa (https://inkppl.com/en/user/jooa_tattoo but it looks like they've moved to Seoul, so if you're really willing to travel, fancy a trip to South Korea?