Amy King (she/they)

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*PSA EVENT* 📢 Final Call for Papers📢 'Navigating #Digital #Democracy' joint annual conference by PSA #Media & #Politics Group and #Technology, Information & #Policy Specialist Groups @psampg.bsky.social @techpolicy.bsky.social
📆 Paper Proposals by 26 September
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not me forgetting that the 26th is only days away and running to my pc to get to work on mine 😬

🚨Navigating Digital Democracy Conf– 8-9 Jan, Bournemouth.

The MPG x TIP conference is going to be ace 😍 & I strongly recommend submitting an abstract.

Topics relating to the core areas of @psampg.bsky.social & @techpolicy.bsky.social are welcome.

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...

What starts, then, as an apparently moral argument about whether to be for or against violence quickly turns into a debate about how violence is defined and who is called “violent”—and for what purposes. When a group assembles to oppose censorship or the lack of democratic freedoms, and the group is called a “mob,” or is understood as a chaotic or destructive threat to the social order, then the group is both named and figured as potentially or actually violent, at which point the state can issue a justification to defend society against this violent threat. When what follows is imprisonment, injury, or killing, the violence in the scene emerges as state violence. We can name state violence as “violent” even though it has used its own power to name and to represent the dissenting power of some group of people as “violent.” Similarly, a peaceful demonstration such as that which took place in Gezi Park in Istanbul in 2013,5 or a letter calling for peace such as the one signed by many Turkish scholars in 2016,6 can be effectively figured and represented as a “violent” act only if the state either has its own media or exercises sufficient control over the media. Under such conditions, exercising rights of assembly is called a manifestation of “terrorism,” which, in turn, calls down the state censor, clubbing and spraying by the police, termination of employment, indefinite detention, imprisonment, and exile.

the introduction of The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler (2020) is screamingly relevant today

I'm really looking forward to this! Get your abstracts in - deadline is next Friday (26th September)

I saw a post recently about speculative futures of generative AI - it looked brilliant but I forgot to save it for later 🫠 anyone able to help a gal out?

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

The Dark Side of AI: Where Women Can’t Say No When Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, decided to investigate the world of artificial intelligence, she was shocked to find that generative AI is helping create a world where misogy...

Meta’s VR platforms are not safe – especially for women & minors.

Our research found abuse in the metaverse every 7 minutes, including graphic sexual content & threats of violence.

Who would feel safe in a space like that?

Our research in Marie Claire ⤵️
www.marieclaire.com.au/news/ai-miso...

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

🤖 What many already knew. Helpful proof, reporting, documentation from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social: Meta allowing sensual roleplay with kids, promoting discrimination, giving false medical info. But listen, there's a tech PR trick I need to draw your attention to here. 🧵
www.reuters.com/investigates...

I'm really grateful to have worked on this one, and more so that I have such a stellar group of colleagues who care so deeply about creating a safer internet and holding corporations accountable in their design choices for the tools and platforms they create.

The results of this report are incredibly sobering.

We really need to be talking more about the dark side of ChatGPT and its kin - the corporations' desire for "relatable" chatbots is leading to incredibly harmful outputs framed as "non-judgemental" or even helpful and well-sourced.

⚡ Big news! ⚡ We're thrilled to announce that are teaming up with @psampg.bsky.social to host our *first* joint conference on "Navigating Digital Democracy" 📩 at Bournemouth University on 8-9 Jan, with an online pre-conf session on the 7 Jan - submission deadline is the 26 Sep more details in 🧵

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

New from 404 Media: a second data breach at Tea has exposed more than a million direct messages between users that we obtained. Discussions of abortions, cheating. The other data was older. This is as recent as *last week*. Hard to overstate how sensitive this data is www.404media.co/a-second-tea...

This is kismet! I passed my viva yesterday looking at the violence on Twitter against 3 women standing for the first time in 2021. We should chat ☺️

Thank you Jess!! It feels absolutely incredible 💖

Excited to take some time to rest before I dig into this thesis again to amend the typos and shuffle some bits around!

I'm indebted to my supervisors Dr Mabel Victoria and Dr Arin Keeble
and my IPC Prof Zack Moir for seeing me through this degree. And so grateful to my examiners Dr Michael Kranert and Prof Anne Schwan for a thoroughly enjoyable viva experience

Really really delighted to share that I passed my viva yesterday with minor corrections!!!!!!

I celebrated last night surrounded by dear friends and my parents. It truly takes a village to raise a doctor, but this pair gave me a solid foundation to build that village on.

YouTube ‘still profits from Andrew Tate misogyny’ after ban The influencer’s videos have amassed nearly 54 million views and adverts from big brands appearing with his content

🚨NEW: We found that YouTube continues to enable & profit from videos featuring Andrew Tate’s extreme misogyny, despite having banned his YouTube account.

We analyzed 100 of the most-viewed videos on YouTube featuring Tate’s misogyny.

Here’s what we found 🧵 www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Anyone read Ofcom's new report "Experiences of engaging with the manosphere"? Just starting to pick through it now but would love to know people's thoughts

www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/experiences-of-engaging-with-the-manosphere

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

expertvoicestogether.org

The world's largest incel forum reacts to Netflix’s Adolescence with hate and conspiracies CCDH's new research shows that the world's largest incel forum responded to Netflix's 'Adolescence' with misogyny, racism, and antisemitism.

💊 Incels' toxic ideology can radicalize young men & lead to real-world violence.

Our newest findings show that the world’s largest incel forum has nearly DOUBLED since our 2022 report on the Incelosphere.

It’s time for policymakers to intervene.

Learn more ⤵️
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I kinda forgot this account exists BUT I submitted my PhD thesis last month! and my viva date was confirmed this morning! it's happening!!!!

This afternoon I presented my PhD thesis to Napier's Centre for Arts, Media and Culture at a seminar generously and expertly chaired by @keeblearin.bsky.social

It's getting ever so real now, but the event was full of supportive comments and engaging questions. Now to finish redrafts!