Claire M. Segijn, Ph.D

Seeing Ad Transparency More Clearly: Public Perception, Use of Ad Transparency Tools, and Responses to Dataveillance Advertising transparency efforts aim to facilitate user knowledge and control over the use of their data for personalized advertising. We seek to understand the perceptions and use of ad transparen...

My recent study (OA) found that people's perceived surveillance did not differ as a function of exposure to ad transparency info, but it was related to various cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes of personalized advertising. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Journal article with title and abstract

“My phone must be listening!”: Peoples’ #surveillance beliefs around devices “listening” to offline conversations in the US, the Netherlands, and Poland

READ MORE: doi.org/10.1177/2053... [#openaccess FREE]

#commsky #advertising #smartphone #privacy

We are looking to appoint to one or more posts in IP/IT Law, as Associate Professor or Lecturer in Law. Applications from colleagues who can also teach in other subject areas, including French Law, are most welcome. The closing date for applications is 28 February 2025. Interviews will likely take place in the week(s) commencing 05 and 12 May 2025. About you Successful candidates will be expected to engage in world leading research, and to contribute to the Faculty’s development and advancement of both intellectual property and information technology law and policy, and other areas of law falling within their subject matter expertise. It is also expected that the post-holders will contribute to all aspects of the academic life of the Faculty and University. The Faculty has a particular interest in recruiting scholars with research interests in copyright law, platform regulation, enforcement with and through technology, and the intersection of emerging technologies with other IP rights such as designs. UCL Laws faces growing demand for teaching and engagement on IP and IT issues from other parts of the university, as well as in executive education, and we particularly welcome applicants with interest and experience of teaching contested legal topics to technologists, creatives and other non-lawyers. Reflecting the broad strength of the Faculty, we welcome scholars from a wide array of approaches to these issues — socio-legal, comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical and/or theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches. Applicants should, however, pay particular attention to how their work illustrates their capacity for depth and rigour in a fast-moving field prone to superficial analysis.

Now hiring in law & tech @ucllaws.bsky.social!
Lecturer/Assoc Prof in IP & IT law: intersection of platform reg, emerging tech, copyright/designs.

Join me @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Orla Lynskey @alinatrapova.bsky.social Ilanah Fhima, Matt Fisher, Robin Jacob & friends
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article) The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Read this chilling article from @jamellebouie.net

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Best reviewer awards could be helpful in stimulating higher quality reviews. What's often missing is information on what made the reviews of these people so good. This insight could be beneficial for improving review quality by others. Let's share best practices!

💡What would be your reviewing tip?

🚨We are looking for a new Editor for Open Science at the European Journal of Political Research! 🔥

Join our editorial team (as full Editor) to develop new Open Science initiatives, eg Registered Reports and guidelines for statistical reporting

DL: 23 Feb

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I think this is a first for me: One of our studies is covered in Japanese media: www.itmedia.co.jp/news/spv/241...

It's about our large scale survey in the US, the Netherlands, and Poland about conversation-related advertising experiences. Link to research: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

We recently launched our bluesky account @nefcamediapsych.bsky.social

⚛️In the coming days, we will share some updates during the #Etmaal2025 conference, the latest research in media psychology, and behind-the-scenes footage of our workshop on stakeholder engagement!

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The Communication and Technology (CAT) Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) seeks nominations for the Frederick Williams Prize for Contribution to the Study of Communication and Technology. Deadline: 1 Mar 2025. https://buff.ly/3MX1hGS
#ICA25

Join us for - AI Hackathon: Making Local Civic Information More Accessible in Minnesota Communities
When: Jan. 31 & Feb. 1
Where: Murphy Hall, UMN campus
Who should attend: Anyone who cares about how communities share, access & assess information
Free but please RSVP: z.umn.edu/hacks-hackers

First day of the spring semester. I'm excited for the conversations with students around the role of #algorithms and #AI in #advertising in my new class this semester. Let's go!

Apple says it does not use Siri audio for advertising “We are constantly developing technologies to make Siri even more private, and will continue to do so,” Apple said in a blog post published after settling a $95 million class action lawsuit.

Apple says it does not use Siri audio for advertising therecord.media/apple-says-s...

Check out what we're building with the Local News Impact Consortium: www.localnewsimpact.org

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PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12.
https://buff.ly/3USZB4A

ETMAAL 2025 〉〉 Bruges 3 - 4 february

Welcome to the official Bluesky account of #Etmaal2025. This year's Etmaal will be organized by
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social Department of Communication Science and will take place in Bruges! Stay up to date via this page and our website etmaal2025.org

A bit more time to apply for one of these amazing PhD positions! Position #5 is co- supervised by myself, Hoster by @polcomvienna.bsky.social together with great colleagues at @compcommlab.bsky.social and @tuwieninformatics.bsky.social ! ☺️

Is there any evidence beyond people's experiences about phones listening for ad targeting? Different explanations are offered in our study including the wealth of digital traces people leave behind + psychological mechanisms such as priming and confirmation bias. Article: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Seeing people unquestioningly repeating this and it's not true. There has never been a single bit of non-circumstantial evidence of Apple using Siri conversations for ad targeting, and the settlement is for Apple sharing recordings of accidental Siri activations with their QA subcontractors.

This 👇 The crazy amount of info we give companies is enough for ad targeting. Also, issues like device battery drainage, low sound quality, data processing costs, legal & financial liability, etc.

Thank you for bringing this up. I had similar thoughts/questions. See also our research on this topic: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

It's interesting that the proof provided is 'the experience from the plaintiffs'. What's the evidence? Other data inputs like location or search are not mentioned, as well as psychological mechanisms like priming or confirmation bias. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

📢New pub! Comparing manual coding with different automated object detection methods on #eye-tracking data.

TLDR; Machine learning worked best for all types of objects. Feature-based matching for static objects (image).

🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2443396

#attention #commsky #ml #cssky

What's the proof that the input was used for targeted advertising? The original article writes that people had such an experience but they don't seem to take into account other data such as location data or search history that can often explain these are as well doi.org/10.1177/2056...

🎉 Happy New Year!
Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna!
⏳Submission deadline: January 15
More here: shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky

⏰ FINAL CALL ⏰

Special issue CfP on disinformation and (generative) AI

Editing special issue of Intl Journal of Communication with Aqsa Farooq as part of @edmo-eu.bsky.social

🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2024

#disinformation #academicsky #commsky #polcom #csssky

edmo.eu/edmo-news/ca...

📢New pub! Comparing manual coding with different automated object detection methods on #eye-tracking data.

TLDR; Machine learning worked best for all types of objects. Feature-based matching for static objects (image).

🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2443396

#attention #commsky #ml #cssky

Excellent post-doc opportunity

Our Department of Communication @univie.ac.at is seeking a new colleague to join us in beautiful Vienna!

🎓Tenure-track Professorship of Media & Communication History
🔗Job announcement: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
📆Application deadline: January 10, 2025

Please share! #commsky #mediahistory

🚨My department is looking for an Assistant Professor of Communication. Please spread the word. www.csi.cuny.edu/sites/defaul...
#commsky

Holiday present came early this year: A journal acceptance for a passion project w/ an amazing team✨.

Teaser: we tested and compared different automated object detection methods (including machine learning) on mobile eye-tracking data.

Stay tuned! #commsky #csssky #attention #eyetracking #ML