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Dima Epstein

@thinkmacro.bsky.social
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Thinking about information, technology, policy, and society. @HUJI: Communication, Public Policy and Governance, Cybersecurity www.thinkmacro.org | www.comparativeprivacy.org Also at: @thinkmacro@fediscience.org

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The Death of Privacy: A Collection of Undying Eulogies danielsolove.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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The Death of Privacy: A Collection of Undying Eulogies
“Privacy is dead!” I’ve heard this proclamation countless times.
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Philipp K. Masur @masurphil.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hey #ica26, I recently wrote a little something that I believe might be interesting to many. Over years I tried to find a way to properly keep up to date with new journal publications across those journals that are most important to me... (1/n)
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
If you have conducted a replication that has been part of a large-scale project, you can submit it to @r2journal.bsky.social.
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Israel's Supreme Court just issued a landmark ruling on AI in government: "the AI hallucinated" is not a valid defense for a public authority: csrcl.huji.ac.il/blog/when-ai...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Good comparative #privacy survey research needs good validated instruments. @masurphil.bsky.social , @kelly-quinn.bsky.social and I validated shorter versions of the Online Privacy Literacy Scale (#OPLIS) for EN & DE. It's now out as a preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”
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AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science
Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
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About the Conference
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/12/2025
Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...
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"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Interested in platform governance, a defining issue of our time? Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend. Program platgov.net/assets/site/... Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I wrote an updated guide on which AIs to use right now, & some tips on how to use them (and how to avoid falling into some common traps) A lot has changed since I last wrote a guide like this in the spring, and AI has gotten much more useful as a result. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
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An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now
What AI to use in late 2025
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 20/08/2025
A median of 72% of adults across 25 nations say the spread of false information online is a major threat to their country. Concern about this issue is widespread in both high- and middle-income countries, and it has remained relatively stable over time.
A chart of 25 countries with horizontal green bars showing that majorities see false information on the internet as a significant threat
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Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🌐 Want to understand how countries are prioritizing key issues ahead of WSIS+20? GNI and @gpdigital.bsky.social have published a new summary infographic offering a quick visual guide to where countries stand on key WSIS+20 issues. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-and-gpd-...
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GNI and GPD Launch New Summary Infographic on WSIS+20 Country Positions - Global Network Initiative
Understand country approaches to internet governance and stakeholder engagement at a glance.
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Jon Gold @jongold.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
These 2 stellar pieces from @techpolicypress.bsky.social are essential for educators thinking through the profoundly new internet our students are experiencing. techpolicy.press/how-ai-drive...
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How AI-Driven Search May Reshape Democracy, Economics, and Human Agency | TechPolicy.Press
Cameron Pattison, Vance Ricks, and John P. Wihbey see differences in kind, as well as in degree, from the pre-generative model-based online search environment.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
July roundup on tech policy litigation from Tech Justice Law Project’s Melodi Dinçer! This month covers key legal discussions in generative AI and “digital replicas,” section 230 protections, privacy law enforcement, demise of FTC’s click to cancel, and a resolution in Cambridge Analytica.
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July 2025 Tech Litigation Roundup | TechPolicy.Press
Melodi Dinçer, Policy Counsel for the Tech Justice Law Project, highlights key developments in tech litigation.
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Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🚨 New publication! 🚨 Do people really trust the government? It depends on how you ask. Happy to share that our paper on why Question Form Matters with KatharinaPfaff (@stawi-univie.bsky.social‬) is now out in @jssam.bsky.social 📊🇦🇹 🔗 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...
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Question Form Matters: Examining Trust in Government through Open and Closed Survey Items
Abstract. How we ask questions in surveys significantly impacts the answers. While previous research has examined differences between open-ended and closed
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We sincerely hope these contributions encourage further engagement with comparative privacy research and meaningful conversations about privacy in our increasingly interconnected world. Our deepest gratitude to all the authors for their rigorous work, important insights, and patience & effort.
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
11. In "A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach" ‪@liming1026.bsky.social‬ & Yiming Chen analyze how WeChat, Taobao, and Douyin, implement privacy policies after China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
10. In "(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment" @tarnov.bsky.social analyzes and maps the data protection laws across 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, discovering large variability that does not follow clear geographic patterns. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
9. In "'(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide'" Debjani Chakraborty & Chhavi Garg examine how married women in rural India navigate digital privacy, balancing cultural norms of being "hidden" online while having "nothing to hide" from family. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
8. In "AI Privacy in Context" Renwen Zhang, Han Li, Anfan Chen, Zihan Liu, and Yi-Chieh Lee compare public and institutional discourses on AI privacy on Twitter (US) and Weibo (China), revealing divergent patterns shaped by cultural, political, and economic factors. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
7. In "Turn It on! Turn It on?" Leyla Dogruel et al. study how students and teachers in Germany and Israel negotiated privacy and visibility during the shift to emergency remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
6. In "Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping" @segijn.bsky.social et al. examine the belief that mobile devices eavesdrop on offline conversations across three countries with different regulatory contexts and surveillance histories. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
5. In "Understanding the Motivations of Young Adults" Delia Cristina Balaban, Maria Mustăţea, and Valeriu Frunzaru explore motivations behind young adults' privacy protection behaviors when configuring smartphone apps in Germany and Romania. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
4. In "Online Privacy, Young People, & Datafication" Rys Farthing and colleagues explore how young people’s awareness of datafication shape their understandings of online privacy in 4 countries from global south and north. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
3. In "It's Fine If Others Do It Too" @cphoffmann.bsky.social and ‪‪@shelleyboulianne.bsky.social‬ nvestigate the relationship between privacy concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook across five Western democracies. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
2. In "Attitudes on Data Use for Public Benefit" Frederic Gerdon compares attitudes on the use of data for public benefit across Germany, Spain, and the UK in a longitudinal survey experiment. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The issue hosts 10 contributions and an editorial. Articles explore varied #privacy perceptions, behaviors, & regulations. They draw on theories like contextual integrity & privacy calculus, offering insights into complex relationships between privacy concerns & socio-political/tech forces.
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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)
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Judgitbu the abstract, this seems like an interesting read..
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We find techies to be liberal on cultural issues, such as same-sex marriage and cosmopolitanism, conservative on income redistribution, and inconsistent on attitudes towards economic regulation. They also show surprisingly high institutional trust. Developers emerge as a politically distinct group.
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We use large-scale cross-national survey data (ESS & ISSP) to explore the differences both within the tech workforce and between it and other occupational elites. We also test the generalizability of previous US-based results about tech professionals in a more geographically diverse sample.
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
On politics and policy preferences of tech workers: In a preprint of a study lead by Gilad Be'ery and co-authored with @raanan-sk.bsky.social we show that, despite some similarities, techies do not have a universal policy agenda; developers are particularly distinct. osf.io/preprints/os...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The immense political influence possessed by the tech elite perfectly demonstrates how free and fair elections may coexist with and even foster a political system that privileges the policy preferences of a select few, writes Surya Gowda.
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What Makes A Democracy A Democracy? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech elites' political clout shows how free elections can still favor the policy preferences of a powerful few, writes Surya Gowda.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Grok’s “sudden ideological reorientation” underscores that the “anodyne political character” of other chatbots is also a construction, @jwherrman.bsky.social writes. It's a reminder that all chatbots are the product of "people deciding what they should and shouldn’t say.” nymag.com/intelligence...
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How Grok Learned to Be a Nazi
The chatbot’s sudden turn to antisemitism and Hitler fandom came from the data — and, maybe, from the top.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/06/2025
If the power grid around St. Petersburg and Moscow went down for a while, we imagine many "Western" social media accounts would suddenly go quiet, too.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 28/06/2025
Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
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2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab
Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Working on platform governance? Join for PlatGovNet 2025 Free online conference Dec 1-2 Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2 Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area. Glad to be part of organizing it Details: platgov.net/conferences/...
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Maybe they can give us a tour :)
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆 📚 Best Book The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵
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The Illiberal Public Sphere
This book uncovers the media's role in global illiberalism through cutting-edge analysis of recent developments in Eastern Europe.
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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 20/05/2025
This is no longer a contest over AI models alone, but over standards, adoption, and the architecture of global digital ecosystems. buff.ly/WrOKnN9
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
@masurphil.bsky.social, Kelly Quinn, and I discussed this paper and other comparative privacy work in a podcast of the HUJI Smart Family Institute: open.spotify.com/episode/49t9...
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Dimensions of Digital Privacy – A Conversation with Dmitry Epstein, Kelly Quinn and Philipp Masur
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 11/05/2025
Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training
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Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training | TechCrunch
President Donald Trump has fired Shira Perlmutter, who leads the U.S. Copyright Office. The firing was reported by CBS News and Politico, and seemingly
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The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: Building Bridges in Privacy Research: Comparative Perspectives and Collaborative Insights - 14-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Mineral G (Regency 3).
#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: Building Bridges in Privacy Research: Comparative Perspectives and Collaborative Insights - 14-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Mineral G (Regency 3).
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/04/2025
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In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource
Op-ed: As AI outputs flood the Internet, diverse human perspectives are our most valuable resource.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 09/04/2025
Canadians are split on GenAI’s net societal impact (39% positive, 34% negative, 27% neutral), but unite around key concerns—security and privacy (72%), reliability of information (68%), job displacement (68%), and effects on higher education (68%). socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...
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[New Report] The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends - Social Media Lab
TORONTO — April 2025 — A majority of Canadians (66%) have experimented with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools less than three years after ChatGPT’s public debut, according to a new repo...
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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I am really pleased to see our meta-analysis of media literacy interventions (160 studies!) has been published in HCR. Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of nuance. One piece of good news is that the interventions work longitudinally. Free download here: academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...
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Media literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of research
Abstract. We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 160 media literacy interventions from 1983 to 2023, finding overall positive effects. Effects were
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Manuel Puppis @manuelpuppis.ch · 27/03/2025
Already fed up with AI in Google search? "Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus." tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...
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How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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