Kelley Cotter

We're very lucky having @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social present today at Curtin University for CCAT on Platform Epistemology: Shaping Algorithmic Knowledge in the Visibility Game, on the first leg of Kelley's Australian tour!

07.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart

13.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Lawmakers’ concerns about China manipulating content purportedly motivated (in part) the law requiring TikTok’s sale to US owners. But Trump-allied investors, a US gov’t–appointed board seat, and US gov’t oversight of the algorithm rebuild raise concerns about far-right influence over the new app.

22.09.2025 14:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TikTok sale puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the For You Page works and what changes are in store With a change of ownership in the works, the fate of TikTok’s algorithm – the secret sauce of its success – is up in the air. Whatever happens, changes to the video sharing app are coming.

The preliminary TikTok deal announced by Trump in the last few days would create a new US-only version of the app and license the algorithm from ByteDance. I shared thoughts about what could happen in an article published in the @theconversation.com

22.09.2025 14:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

National Day of Civic Hacking is Sept. 18 | Penn State University The National Day of Civic Hacking is Sept. 18. Many researchers in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology work on advancing technology for social good.

My college wrote about my and colleagues' work for National Civic Hacking Day. The article covers NSF-funded research with @profprof.bsky.social, @kthorson.bsky.social, @ankolika.bsky.social, @afbat.bsky.social, Marialina Antolini, Benji Davis around volunteer moderators of local online groups.

18.09.2025 12:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

12.09.2025 08:24 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Assistant Professor in Media Studies APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

🚨 We are hiring at Penn State! My college (@bellisariograded.bsky.social‬) is hiring an Assistant Professor in Health/Science Communication (emphasis on social scientific approaches).

I'm leading the search, so feel free to reach out with any questions.

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25.07.2025 14:46 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Local platformized utopias? corporate discourse, community groups, and volunteer moderation on Facebook, Reddit, and NextDoor

New OA pub day! Given the dwindling of local newspapers, folks are turning to social media. Platforms are discursively constructing local community groups as a new kind of hub. But local volunteer mods are the ones who are charged to realize these visions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

24.07.2025 16:39 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals" highlighting two lines in particular: "Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose "Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.

It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

27.04.2025 05:29 — 👍 4441    🔁 1382    💬 47    📌 54

From the changemyview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

26.04.2025 22:02 — 👍 1280    🔁 524    💬 52    📌 178

More than a restriction on what can be said, this represents an effort to constrain what is known. A clear attempt to cultivate ignorance.

05.02.2025 14:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

YES! Cannot wait to read. Congrats!! 👏🏻

17.01.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0