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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון

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Social Media Explorer 🦆 PhDing; Communication; HebrewU Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social 🤳🏽 Content Creators 🧲 Audiovisual Memes 🧨 Algos and Hate 📵 Tech Appropriation 👩🏽‍🎤 TikTok Cultures

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Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thrilled to share that our special issue on NMS (co-edited with @tomdivon.bsky.social & Martin Lundqvist) is officially out! 🎉🎉🎉 10 empirical pieces + an introductory article exploring the contextual nature of violence on digital platforms. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/28/4
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New Media & Society - Volume 28, Number 4
Table of contents for New Media & Society, 28, 4
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This sums a lot of what AI offers, some blurry vibes, and how its promise is part of a longer history of dealing with some pretty big dilemmas. By @tomdivon.bsky.social + Christian Pentzold: AI can make the dead talk – why this doesn’t comfort us: theconversation.com/ai-can-make-...
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Live-Streaming: Mapping Networks of Influence and (Dis)information Flow (van Boheemen, @boesch.bsky.social, @tomdivon.bsky.social et al.) I was just made aware of this very insightful report on the usage of TikTok Live-Streaming by far-right extremists. www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...
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SummerSchool2025LiveStreaming < Dmi < Foswiki
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Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics | ReCentGlobe @recentglobe.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Wednesday: @tomdivon.bsky.social will explore questions of evidence, testimony, credibility and truth concerning the use of generative AI in Palestinian activism. With commentary from Lilly Boxman-Shabtai (Jerusalem) & Julian Kuttig (Leipzig), chaired by Christian Pentzold (Leipzig) #GlobeColloquium
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
How about that impact, @tomdivon.bsky.social ! Congrats 👏👏
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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New article written by @tomdivon.bsky.social and Tobias Ebbretch-Hartmann in New Media & Society. What happens when creators, with no historical ties, perform on TikTok as if they were Holocaust victims using trends, dance, and filters? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If Karoline Leavitt is correct and TikTok’s algorithm is going to split so a new US entity has oversight of it, it could lobotmise the app in America. My latest for @fastcompany.com, featuring @jessmaddox.bsky.social, @boesch.bsky.social and @tomdivon.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91408598/tru...
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How a new U.S.-flavored algorithm will alter the experience of TikTok
A rumored split between TikTok’s algorithm in the United States and the computer code running the app elsewhere could put off users—and destroy TikTok’s secret sauce.
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards - Blake Hallinan, CJ Reynolds, Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief, Yehonatan Kuperberg, 2025
Platform governance is simultaneously a matter of public concern and a professional calling for Trust and Safety, the nascent field tasked with setting and enfo...
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
📢📢📢 PhD publication! after 1.5 years of ethnographic exploration of Ukrainian creators on TikTok, I'm thrilled to share our OA work with my brilliant friend @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social on PLAYFUL TRAUMA in times of war and adversity 🇺🇦 💛 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War - Tom Divon, Moa Eriksson Krutrök, 2024
Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, TikTok has emerged as a pivotal platform, where creators utilize its compressed video formats to mediate the harsh realiti...
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📢📢📢 My brilliant friend @danijaradent.bsky.social and I have released a report (from our TCRN event) shedding light on the structural inequalities that shape the experiences of Latin American creators on TikTok. Their reality is one of constant struggle; see 🧵 tiktokcultures.com/latam-report/
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Latin American Cultures on TikTok
Download the report (PDF). About ‘Latin American Cultures on TikTok’ collects and expands on some of the main takeaways from the Latin American Cultures on TikTok event, which took place on N…
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Sadly, our iPhones have become sources of trauma. Perves can harass with their dick pic via AirDrop, and 'Memories' resurface painful moments we'd prefer to forget; @nicolettelittle.bsky.social & I delve into the unsolicited nature of algos with this OA piece (🧵) www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
From Ukraine🇺🇦 to Gaza🇵🇸, Syria🇸🇾, Lebanon🇱🇧, and now India🇮🇳 & Pakistan🇵🇰, creators use SM platforms to make their conflicts more visible. They're curators, eyewitnesses, and living archives of atrocity. @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social & I call them *War Influencers*; OA in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social 🧵
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Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New annotated resource on #SocialMediaViolence: The rise of war influencers: Creators, platforms, and the visibility of conflict zones, by @tomdivon.bsky.social and @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social Read my notes here: esteban-morales.com/lit-review-v...
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The rise of war influencers: Creators, platforms, and the visibility of conflict zones – Esteban Morales
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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New publication alert: The algorithm loves the war”: ambivalent visibility in content creator practices during war" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with the amazing duo @tomdivon.bsky.social and @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social !! findings below >>>
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“The algorithm loves the war”: ambivalent visibility in content creator practices during war
Content creators in war zones are critical in shaping global perceptions of conflict. Through social media, they document real-time events and reach audiences beyond the traditional news frameworks...
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Dream team incoming - @taylorannabell.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @rscarlets.bsky.social Jacob van de Kerkhof @thelesbertaglia.bsky.social with a powerful reminder of how search recommendations shape what is visible, trusted and treated as credible knowledge & we better keep our eyes on it as researchers👇
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
a true challenge by the brill @bloggeronpole.bsky.social & @pamogranite.bsky.social to the corporate discourse of *community* on platforms. They capture how creators at risk are forced to navigate corpo-civic spaces where care, visibility & belonging are destabilized by commercial governance; GOLD👇
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
From Ukraine🇺🇦 to Gaza🇵🇸, Syria🇸🇾, Lebanon🇱🇧, and now India🇮🇳 & Pakistan🇵🇰, creators use SM platforms to make their conflicts more visible. They're curators, eyewitnesses, and living archives of atrocity. @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social & I call them *War Influencers*; OA in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social 🧵
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@alicetiara.bsky.social: "It's very important that we, as a community, counter those [false accusations of censorship] narratives head on and not cede ground. …When you let another party frame the debate, you lose the debate before it's even started." m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ST...
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UNC Professor Alice Marwick on the need to counter false narratives
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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Nathalie Schäfer @nathalierimb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I am officially part of @aoir.bsky.social exec!! Thank you to all who voted and @tomdivon.bsky.social for the encouragement ✨
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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Your 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee! President: Sarah Roberts Vice President: Andra Siibak Immediate Past President: Nicholas John Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl Graduate Student Rep: Lynrose Jane Genon Open Seats: Admire Mare, Rebecca Scharlach, & Meg Jing Zeng.
Here is your 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee, 
taking office in October 2025!


President (elected as Vice President in the 2023 Election): Sarah Roberts, UCLA, USA

 Vice President (becomes President in two years): 
Andra Siibak, University of Tartu, Estonia

 Immediate Past President (elected as Vice President in the 2021 Election): Nicholas John, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

 Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer, 
Weimar University, Germany

 Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl, York University, Canada

 Graduate Student Representative: 
Lynrose Jane Genon, QUT, Australia

 Open Seats: Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Rebecca Scharlach, University of Bremen, Germany; and Meg Jing Zeng, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Israel, 2025. This is where the media and everyday civilians now stand morally. The front page of a major newspaper calling for the flattening of Gaza and the Hague, featuring a piece on one of the country's leading singers, with the headline. “I would vote for Kahane.” Yes, that Meir Kahane ⬇️
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The brill @thechristinet.bsky.social reminds us that whether we "like it or not, we associate height with power”; great piece about how in politics, stature is not just symbolic for us but can shape credibility, leadership perception, and even electability!👇
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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Pre-Trump 2.0, Big Tech seemed to at least pretend to care about user rights, & used PR & comms as a way to engage in damage control (as @tomdivon.bsky.social, @pamogranite.bsky.social & I have argued in our paper on gaslighting as a platform comms strategy): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation - Tom Divon, Carolina Are, Pam Briggs, 2025
This paper delves into communications dynamics between social media platforms and their users as they navigate the opacity of governance policies. Using Meta an...
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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I've just finished my talk for the BSWC "Villainous" conference, where I shared strategies for communicating with social media platforms to push for change & make an impact with NGO &/or academic / union work. Yet, comms with platforms are getting more frustrating⤵️
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Brill team (👇) frames creator engagement with moderation as an *aspirational* form of participatory governance; creators express desires to influence moderation but lack structural guarantees, often ending up "legitimating the platform as arbiter of public discourse and cultural production.” READ! 🔍
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In the past 2y, I’ve served on the AoIR exec as the grad rep and advocated for the younger members of our community. We’ve made meaningful changes, and more to come! With elections open (nominations due April 2 🗳️) now is your chance to join! Don’t hesitate to reach out; happy to share experiences <3
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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is our plan for today: Attending "Platform Gaslighting" by @tomdivon.bsky.social @bloggeronpole.bsky.social (3pm CET) as part of our online talk series on platform governance @pgmt.bsky.social. 👇Find last minute registration and info below.
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marty, @numet.al · 18/03/2025
the press are helping facilitate a genocide
6 headlines, in order, from Axios, NBC News, Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg, Reuters

"Israel resumes war in Gaza with a series of massive air strikes against Hamas", "Israel says it is striking Hamas targets in Gaza and will intensify military force", "Ceasefire over as Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas refused to release hostages, officials say", "Israel says it is carrying out extensive strikes in Gaza", "Israel says it's launching strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza", "Israeli military conducts strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza, army says"
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
How algorithmic ableism reproduces bias for disabled and marginalized creators through content suppression and surveillance —> the brill @jessrauchberg.bsky.social! 👇🫶🙌
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 18! Join us (@bloggeronpole.bsky.social) as we unpack platform governance, gaslighting, and methods for making sense of creators’ lived experiences!👇✨
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📣 Online Talk Series (17): @tomdivon.bsky.social & @bloggeronpole.bsky.social - “Platform Gaslighting” 🗓️März 18, 2025 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event 👉 To the Event and Registration: platform-governance.org/online-talk-...
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Join us for a deep dive into the hidden gems within this brilliant collection of chapters! #TheHashtagHustle ✨👇
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
@bloggeronpole.bsky.social & I believe platform governance should be understood through those subjected to it, not just those who impose it. In our talk at the fab @pgmt.bsky.social, we center methods for exploring the voices of creators who are told their realities don’t exist at all. Join us!👇
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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Looking forward to presenting findings and behind-the-scenes considerations from the paper @tomdivon.bsky.social, @pamogranite.bsky.social & I have recently published on gaslighting as a platform comms strategy at the @pgmt.bsky.social. Join us virtually on March 18, at 2pm GMT.
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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-... 🆕 publication alert on how Indian cultural workers are negotiating work on global streaming services. Led by incoming Humboldt fellow Dr Priyam Sinha.
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Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India
Abstract. In this article, we investigate the integrated commodity forms within Internet-based production cultures in India based on four key transactional
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This paper was part of an incredible panel at @aoir.bsky.social 2024, where we explored the place of a child on platforms with leading voices bringing in the *nuances* --> @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @tamaleaver.bsky.social, Emma Beuckels, Liselot Hudders, Crystal Abidin 🔥 🙌
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CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
When kids become their parents' content on TikTok! 🤳✨ Check out this timely paper by our community members @tomdivon.bsky.social @taylorannabell.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social 👇
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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
o YouTube ještě v češtině - teď vyšel tenhle seriál na ČRo Vltava, kde občas taky něco říkám, je to dlouhé a důkladné: vltava.rozhlas.cz/fenomen-yout...
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Fenomén YouTube
Publicistická série Fenomén YouTube mapuje dvě dekády virální revoluce, která navždy změnila způsob, jakým se díváme na svět. V pěti dílech pokryjeme zásadní fenomény, které YouTube přinesl – od vzest...
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
When @taylorannabell.bsky.social and @cgoanta.bsky.social are cooking up something like the *politicisation of influencers*, you know it’s going to be THE workshop 🔥 I Just signed up for the online participation!
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Marieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Liberaal, VVD-stijl: wanneer je elke vorm van discussie of zelfs alleen luisteren weigert, zodra iemand in de heilige Telegraaf wordt zwartgemaakt.
Tweet van Eric van der Burg: “De vvd heeft geen behoefte met haar het gesprek aan te gaan gezien haar meer dan dubieuze uitspraken”. Hij citeert een tweet van de Telegraaf: Nadat PVV en BBB eerder al lieten doorschemeren niet te zitten wachten op het bezoek van de omstreden VN-rapporteur Francesca Albanese, zegt coalitiegenoot VVD ook 'geen behoefte te hebben aan dit gesprek'
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Oh, really, Trump? You think? Well, the very architect of this death symbol now stands to your left, turning years of destruction into a hallmark of his regime’s policy.
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taylor annabell @taylorannabell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Our edited volume, The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy (with @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social & Isabelle Wildhaber) is available, open access www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@nicolettelittle.bsky.social in a brill piece on nostalgia-driven Memories & harm for users! Our co-research, building on the 'Unsolicited Algorithm' (👇), pushes against the lazy 'just log off' narrative, demanding safer, more inclusive design to mitigate trauma www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The unsolicited algorithm: unveiling gendered harms and (non)consent in apple iOS features
Algorithms are pivotal in shaping our online and offline experiences, yet they can inadvertently perpetuate hostile digital environments for users. This paper introduces the concept of the unsolici...
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Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Really looking forward to talking Platforms, Algorithms & Social Justice at this MIT workshop on Feb 21st alongside the wonderful @norasuren.bsky.social and @tomdivon.bsky.social!! ✨️✊️ If you're in Cambridge (the new one, not the old one) then you can register HERE: www.norasuren.com/workshopform
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PLATFORMS, ALGORITHMS, & SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKSHOP — nora suren
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Nora Suren, PhD @norasuren.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
📍 Don't miss out on this exciting conversation! Register now www.norasuren.com/workshopform 🔗 #DigitalJustice #PlatformGovernance #AlgorithmicBias #MIT #SocialMediaActivism
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PLATFORMS, ALGORITHMS, & SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKSHOP — nora suren
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Excited to be speaking in this timely event at MIT on Platforms & Justice with the brill @zoeglatt.bsky.social, @norasuren.bsky.social & @joncong.bsky.social; I'll bring the experiences of Palestinian and Jewish creators being culturally misread, flagged & muted—by both algorithms & humans; Join!👇🔥
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The current discourse in Israel is: some openly cheer for the annihilation of Gaza, while others merely “see his point.” The latter scares me more as they cloak brutality in reason, making it sound logical, even justified. And they are the majority. The former are just honest about it.
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CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Groundbreaking new report from members @tomdivon.bsky.social & @danijaradent.bsky.social!
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