Christoph Lutz

X’s Altmetric Hegemony Ceding to Bluesky The alternative social media platform is matching engagement of Elon Musk’s X in ways that “would have seemed unthinkable until recently,” says study.

3 💡 conclusions from this @timeshighered.bsky.social piece based on @altmetric.com data:

1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead
2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative
3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts

#academicsky

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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1. In the editorial we introduce the special issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a conceptual foundation for context-sensitive #privacy research.

Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

CPRF: doi.org/10.1080/0197...

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!

journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

New article on privacy protection behavior, using a large sample (3K) survey of Italians conducted in 2022. Very relevant for those who study privacy and digital inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Frontiers | Studying short-term rental platform perceptions and use through a digital inequality lens Short-term rental (STR) platforms hold promise for promoting inclusive tourism, although the digital divide risks barring certain groups from reaping these b...

Studying short-term rental platform perceptions and use through a digital inequality lens
Frontiers
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...

Topical collection on Privacy-Friendly and Trustworthy Technology for Society in Digital Society NCIS co-director Christoph Lutz and several professors from other universities recently completed their topical collection.

🗞️A news piece about the TC is available here: www.bi.edu/research/res...

🎯 Finally, our editorial contextualizes the contributions within key developments, including the complexity of the inter-relation between privacy and trust, provides summaries of the articles, and calls for interdisciplinary research on the topic. doi.org/10.1007/s442...
#ai #privacy #trust

6️⃣ "From Privacy-Enhancing to Health Data Utilisation: The Traces of Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation in EU Data Protection Law" by Zhicheng He doi.org/10.1007/s442...

5️⃣ "Thermal Imaging in Robotics as a Privacy-Enhancing or Privacy-Invasive Measure? Misconceptions of Privacy when Using Thermal Cameras in Robots" by Naomi Lintvedt doi.org/10.1007/s442...

4️⃣ "Debiasing Strategies for Conversational AI: Improving Privacy and Security Decision-Making" by Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp and Nils Peters doi.org/10.1007/s442...

3️⃣ "A Concept of Balance of Interest in the Context of Active Assisted Living" by Maksymilian Kuzmicz doi.org/10.1007/s442...

2️⃣ "Probing for Privacy: A Digital Design Method to Support Reflection of Situated Geoprivacy and Trust" by Jessica Megarry, Peta Mitchell, Markus Rittenbruch, Yu Kao, Bryce Christensen and Marcus Foth doi.org/10.1007/s442...

The six articles are:
1️⃣ "Ethical Guidelines for the Application of Generative AI in German Journalism" by Lennart Hofeditz, Anna-Katharina Jung, Milad Mirbabaie and Stefan Stieglitz doi.org/10.1007/s442...

📖 The TC includes six exciting articles on topics such as generative AI in journalism, geoprivacy, the concept of balance in active and assisted living, debiasing strategies for conversational AI, thermal imaging in robotics, and anonymization/pseudonymization in European data protection law.

🤗 A. Fedosov, @aureliatamo.bsky.social E. Fosch-Villaronga, A. Čartolovni and and I recently completed our Digital Society (Springer Nature) topical collection (TC) "Privacy-friendly and trustworthy technology for society"
🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...

Short 🧵with an overview follows.

2️⃣ In "Mapping the prestige and social value of occupations in the digital economy", published in JBR, we focus on emerging occupations, showing how these jobs suffer from perceptional deficits and are subject to varied assessments along demographic lines.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

1️⃣ In "Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom", published in RSSM, we document the development of a comprehensive occupation list aligned with ISCO-08, discussing the prestige and social value landscape in the UK.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

👇 Here is a layperson summary of the research: www.bi.edu/research/bus...

🧱 The article builds on two earlier papers from the occupational prestige and occupational social value project that both came out last year.

💡 We investigated how generative AI evaluates 576 occupations, contrasting GPT-4 prestige and social value scores with human scores in the UK. The two are highly correlated across all ISCO-08 major groups. However, GPT-4 misrepresents many occupations, especially digital economy and illicit ones.

📖 Our article "A technological construction of society: Comparing GPT-4 and human respondents for occupational evaluation in the UK" with P. Gmyrek and @gemmanewlands.bsky.social has been included in the March 2025 issue of the British Journal of Industrial Relations!
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/bjir...
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Cover of the book "Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse" (Stephan Habscheid, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, David Waldecker, eds.), dark blue theme, white letters, blue-filtered picture of a voice assistant and a smartphone.

Happy to announce the open-access volume "Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse", edited by Stephan Habscheid, @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social, David Waldecker and myself. You can download it here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Comparative privacy research: Literature review, framework, and research agenda The ways in which privacy is understood, defined, perceived, and enacted are contingent on cultural, social, political, economic, and technological settings. Yet, privacy research is often criticiz...

🎆 New Publication on comparative privacy research!

After almost 5 years, we (that is @thinkmacro.bsky.social, Kelly Quinn, Carsten Wilhelm, Lemi Baruh, @lutzid.bsky.social and myself) are proud to have published this article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you are interested in digital #privacy and resignation, this collection will be a treasure trove.

Thank you @noradraper.bsky.social, @cphoffmann.bsky.social, @lutzid.bsky.social, @giuliaranzini.bsky.social and Joe Turow for masterfully steering this venture! Proud to be part of it.

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📣 We are very happy to announce that our special theme in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on Digital Resignation and Privacy Cynicism is complete!
👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy.
journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...

🫵 Please reach out if you struggle to access the chapter and are interested in reading it!

🔍The chapter expands on my 2019 article "Digital Inequalities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data", which is surprisingly well cited: doi.org/10.1002/hbe2...

📈 A lot has happened in the AI space since 2019, so the chapter includes much recent literature, incl. reflections on genAI.

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond | Theorising Society an This volume brings together eminent scholars from various parts of the world, representing different fields of knowledge in order to explore the social,

📚The volume is edited by K. Filipek, D. Brzeziński, K. Piwowar and M. Winiarska-Brodowska. Big thanks to the editors for the great editorial work 🙏

🔗Here is the link to the book: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

📖 My chapter looks at inequality implications of AI in organizational contexts.

🎯 My newest book chapter just dropped! "Social Inequalities and Artificial Intelligence: How Digital Inequality Scholarship Enhances Our Understanding" came out recently in the wonderful Routledge volume "Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond" www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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Parents Talking Algorithms Parents Talking Algorithms - Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies; This book explores the intersection of parenthood and the digital age, where algorithms shape daily decisions...

It’s publication day!! Thrilled that my new monograph - #Parents talking #Algorithms: Navigating #Datafication and #Family life in #Digital societies is now published. Thanks to the fab testimonial writers and to BUP! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in...