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JennyLDavis

@jenny-l-davis.bsky.social
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Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. www.jennyldavis.com

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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meet the panelists of Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI ⚡ 🎤 @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social, @posada.website, Apryl Williams, @fractalecho.bsky.social, and @steelecat717.bsky.social 📅 Fri, October 9 at 2:00 PM ET 📍 Zoom 🔗 Register events.umich.edu/event/149368
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
What a cool project from @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and her students documenting xAI's data centers in Memphis. The website is "a targeted lens on a specific locale and a window into AI’s infrastructural expansion" and has a "StoryMap, providing a place-based account of the story and its stakes."
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DataCenter : DataCenter
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We're Live!! "What is Sociological About AI?" The articles in this issue are excellent in their own right but even better together, building out a Sociology of AI
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 09/07/2025
Over 18 months, CDT studied content moderation in four low-resource languages—Maghrebi Arabic, Kiswahili, Tamil, and Quechua—across South Asia, North/East Africa, and South America. cdt.org/insights/con...
Graphic for a CDT Research report, entitled “Content Moderation in the Global South: A Comparative Study of Four Low-Resource Languages.” An illustration of four different hands, all being touched by / wrapped around a bright blue connective internet cord.
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New Essay w/ Hayoung Seo: "It's Not Optimal" On the value of human excess in an age of AI Joint Review of: 1 Co-Intelligence @emollick.bsky.social 2 The Last Human Job @allisonpugh.bsky.social 3 AI Needs You @verityharding.bsky.social 4 The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant
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Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🎤 NEW in @publicbooks.bsky.social #tech: "It’s Not Optimal" by @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social & Hayoung Seo--a brilliant take on #AI's sociality in conversation with books by Leslie Valiant, @verityharding.bsky.social, @emollick.bsky.social, & @allisonpugh.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/its-not-opti...
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It's Not Optimal - Public Books
Four books about a new age of AI tell stories of sluggish processes, ambiguous outcomes, emotionally charged issues, and generous margins for error.
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It isn't complicated. There's hate speech that is prohibited and free speech that is protected. This administration is punishing protected speech by mischaracterizing it as hate speech. Everyone on all sides understands this is what's happening
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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
⚠️ Attendees of #FAccT2025, this is very important! ⚠️ June is the peak of tourist season 😎, and affordable hotel options will disappear soon! Please book your accommodations ASAP! We want you to enjoy your visit to Athens! 🦉 Our list of hotels and discount codes: facctconference.org/2025/hotel
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Wesley Hanwen Deng @wesleydeng.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
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ACM FAccT 2025 Call for Socials
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Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
✨🎙️ PUBLICATION ALERT ✨🎙️ Out with Nature Machine Intelligence today @natmachintell.bsky.social: "Materiality and Risk in the Age of pervasive #AI #Sensors", with the great Susan Kennedy, VJ Reddi, Brian Plancher, Pete Warden, Emanuel Moss & Matthew Stewart. Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/3skyvep7
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a woman in a red shirt is singing into a microphone in a club .
ALT: a woman in a red shirt is singing into a microphone in a club .
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I don't think Sean Ward has migrated to this platform yet but he did lead a 🔥 article about the move away from Twitter/x Out today in Symbolic Interaction doi.org/10.1002/symb...
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Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration
Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by th...
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This Google Maps and Calendar business is an absolute tutorial on the politics of place, time, and technology.
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 11/02/2025
PostDoc: Conceptual Framework for Justice and Wellbeing in Transport & Mobility jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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PostDoc: Conceptual Framework for Justice and Wellbeing in Transport & Mobility
The TU/e is constantly looking for scientific and non-scientific staff further its ambitions. View here our current vacancies.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11/02/2025
First, Google removed events like Pride & BHM from Calendar. www.theverge.com/news/608858/... Now, they come for our maps. A harsh reminder that default settings aren’t just re: convenience—they’re a form of control that shapes user behaviour & choices. Welcome to the Gulf of Digital Imperialism.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
As someone with an actual PhD in geography, I am utterly disgusted with Google for this. What a joke.
A screen shot of Google Earth with “Gulf of Mexico” in the search bar. The red pin in the gulf is labeled “Gulf of America.”
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 11/02/2025
Are you guys for real right now? We only rate dogs. This is so clearly a bunny rabbit having his dinner. Please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10
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Alex Turvy @alexturvy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
New piece with @rscarlets.bsky.social : The TikTok ban won't work—it'll create exactly what it claims to prevent. Bans don't eliminate platforms, they transform them into less governable forms. Our analysis of the paradox at the heart of platform restrictions: www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-b...
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The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent | TechPolicy.Press
Alex Turvy and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach write that the US TikTok ban reveals the limitations of current government regulatory paradigms.
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I do few things with the same fervor as when serenading this dog
Tan dog. Blue collar. Sitting with eyes closed.
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I'm late for most things but yesterday, managed to show up for a talk one full month early 🏆
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm at the point in the semester where I just need to absorb other people's smart thoughts about interesting things. Yay for Co-Opting AI 🙌 karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-op...
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Co-Opting AI: Cars
A critical discussion about the deep entanglement of AI systems with the perennial dream of data-driven cars and autonomous mobility.
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Blog post version of my talk at UofBristol's Centre for Sociodigital Futures. Such a generative visit with generous scholars 🙏 sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...
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Algorithmic reparation – from fairness to redress – ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
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JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Just a couple middle-age ladies making use of this Thanksgiving downtime @k8henne.bsky.social
WhatsApp message that reads 'lol are you spending t-giving joining Blue sky too?' with a laugh-cry emoji
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age theconversation.com/australias-s...
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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age.
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