So delighted to have this article out! It’s a mash up of digital inclusion & digital disconnection research, and pushes forward the relationship between these fields via a study of low-income families w/ high-school children journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🤗 Lovely bit of tag-teaming with Kristy Hess and @tamaleaver.bsky.social#ECREA2024www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03...

Meta blocked news from Facebook and Instagram in Canada — could they do the same in Australia?

Meta's move has sparked concerns Australians could see a repeat of previous news bans — here's what the experts say is likely to happen next.

With Meta saying they're not renewing the deals struck with Aust news companies that originally avoided them being 'designated' (ie targets) of the News Media Bargaining Code, the question now is whether the current govt will dust off the NMBC & actually use it or not! www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03...

Meta won't renew commercial deals with Australian news media

Facebook owners Meta says it won't renew commercial deals with Australian news media companies worth millions of dollars.

Insightful piece by Alicia Blum-Ross ...

TPtechpolicypress.bsky.socialFeb 1, 2024 3:04pm

For regulation on child online safety to be effective, there needs to be an agreed definition of “reasonable measures” says Alicia Blum-Ross, an academic and former youth policy executive at Twitch, YouTube, and Google. www.techpolicy.press/the-gaps-lef...

The Gaps Left Unfilled by the Senate Tech CEO Hearing on Child Safety | TechPolicy.Press

For regulation to be effective, there needs to be an agreed definition of “reasonable measures” says Alicia Blum-Ross.

Fake AI-generated Indigenous art is flooding online platforms run by companies like Adobe, eBay and Etsy. Indigenous artists say the AI models, trained on their work, is threatening their livelihoods and their cultures

AI is producing ‘fake’ Indigenous art trained on real artists’ work without permission

One Indigenous artist said the process of using their art to train AI models that competes with them for work is a ‘very colonial mindset’.

The Association of Internet Researchers invites submissions for our 25th annual conference, #AoIR2024aoir.org/aoir2024/sub...

Mickey Mouse’s first 24 hours in the public domain: slasher flicks, horror games and NFTs #copyrightwww.theguardian.com/film/2024/ja...

Mickey Mouse’s first 24 hours in the public domain: slasher flicks, horror games and NFTs

Steamboat Willie lost US copyright protection on 1 January 2024 – prompting a stream of films, games and parodies that will likely displease Disney

NEW Full Professorship on "Technology and Society" at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin! *Deadline: January 4th, 2024 *Salary: Academic Pay Scale [€132,301 – €167,243 annum] Looking for TOP scholars in this field. Please APPLY and/or SHARE! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEA677/w...

"the once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, & is already taking over Facebook. ... Facebook is doing essentially nothing to help its users decipher real content from AI-generated" www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real

The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.

Enjoyed presenting 'When Personal Data Isn’t: Toward a Concept of Entangled Data', at Digital Intimacies 9 #DigInt9 today. Entangled Data might be the idea that weaves together ideas I've been playing with since my PhD, all the way to my recent work!