Madelyn Sanfilippo

117. Alondra Nelson, Biden's Head of Science and Technology Policy, talks AI, Trump's research funding cuts, and how memes replaced Happy Days - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass A... Alondra Nelson is arguably the most important sociologist of science in America. She isn’t just a brilliant researcher of how race and racism has shaped public health in America, nor just a thoughtful...

This is probably the last episode of "Reimagining the Internet", the podcast Mike Sugarman and I have produced for the last five years. Talk about going out on a high note: I interview Alondra Nelson on AI, universities and the Trump administration:

publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/117-...

Privacy, Technology, and Protecting Democracy: A Conversation with Daniel Solove An event unpacking how policy professionals from different fields should understand privacy and its relationship to healthy democracies.

Tomorrow (July 24) at 11 AM – 12 PM, I will be interviewed by Prem Trivedi at New America’s Open Technology Institute on privacy, technology, and democracy: www.newamerica.org/oti/events/p... Please join us for this event!

Ethical Use of Pervasive Data for Research | Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University The IDDP Council for Pervasive Data Ethics - Next Steps for the U.S convened to chart a set of actions to advance ethical practices in computing research.

GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...

Against the Present: The Future of Feminism Is Now - Latino News Network Historians have often excluded Black, Brown and Indigenous women from their narratives, thereby contributing to the erasure of the forms of solidarity and equity those women and their comrades practic...

The always brilliant Antionette Burton on democracy, feminism, and equity. latinonewsnetwork.com/democracy/ag...

Excited to share that I’ve defended my dissertation. Grateful to my advisors, Yang Wang and @profmrs.bsky.social for their guidance. Special thanks to Yixin Zou for hosting me at MPI-SP as visiting researcher. Thank you to collaborators, peers, friends, and family. Stay tuned for the next chapter.✨

@ynotez.bsky.social I think we might have to resurrect the wearables project? blog.citp.princeton.edu/2020/03/16/t...

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums "This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

AI scraping bots looking for training data are overwhelming the servers of libraries and archives, making valuable, public resources unavailable to people. We are losing access to original writing and getting gimmicky writing in return through LLMs. #AIEthics #writers
www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

I am so sad. And so tired. If it’s not one thing, it’s everything.

Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons Cambridge Core - Media, Mass Communication - Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons

Explores how people experience, produce, and manage misinformation in their everyday lives.

Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons by @profmrs.bsky.social & @melissa1776.bsky.social

Out Now & #OpenAccess

#LawSky 💙📚 cup.org/40cWUxU

Join us in Hawaii next January to present or learn about knowledge and data commons!

CFP: governing the digital commons at HICSS 2026 hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-59/in...

Co-wrote my first op/ed with the great @profmrs.bsky.social!!!
thehill.com/opinion/whit...

I have never hated any single update more than I hate this iOS. Why would you do this to mail?

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."

How the United States Learned to Love Internet Censorship America was once seen as the home of the free internet. That era is now over.

To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This translation of the authors' recent ARIST review emphasizes the critical need for empirical #research on #misinformation governance to guide decision-making & #policy development.

Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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@profmrs.bsky.social

Fellow parents, what completely ridiculous thing, you never imagined needing to say at all, do you find yourself repeating?

For me: Stop putting rocks in the washing machine!

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...

Governing Misinformation - Information Matters This translation of the authors' recent ARIST review, “Sociotechnical Governance of Misinformation,” highlights the urgency and importance of empirical research on misinformation governance to inform ...

In addition to the wonderful research being done on misinformation, its impact, dissemination, and filtering, we need to prioritize governance research, especially on alternative interventions at the community level!

With Awa Zhu and Shengnan Yang: informationmatters.org/2024/11/gove...

GKC, knowledge commons, data governance starter pack: go.bsky.app/21AV2bt

Henry AI Kissinger is a great example of why AI breaks all contextual norms. Just because you were an expert on one thing does NOT mean, in death and/or by extension, that you can be an expert on everything.

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

Did you take “civics” in school? What approximate year and state?

Trying to address an interesting hunch provoked in a Q&A today…

Thanks!

My kid is learning Latin in school and told me it would be really practical in case she gets a letter when she turns 11.

My small contribution to the dialogue on how we can address election misinformation, in light of governance failures. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Over the past few years, I’ve moved to assessing engagement rather than attendance and I think it makes a big difference. If the primary or only way to participate in a course is synchronous, in person, this would only be okay for a time sensitive news story and would require communication.

Wow that would definitely be the most effective faculty governance in history 👀

Anika played a role in Twitter's decision to ban Trump, Madelyn researches online abuse and privacy, and Samuel created the Digital Safety Kit for Public Health. Join us for a hands-on discussion of strategies for speaking up at the individual, institutional, and community levels.

Tuesday, August 27 (7pm - 8:30pm ET)

To register: www.eventbrite.com/checkout-ext...