Manufactured Voices, Real Impact
Artificial accounts aren’t just noise—they’re actively influencing conversations and creating division across social spaces.
AI educator Jocelyn Burnham discusses how AI is used at scale, why questioning assumptions is essential, and how individuals can form informed, independent views in a synthetic world.
🎙️ Hear the full episode → https://youtu.be/s3MkT8fCpgw
#AIethics #DigitalAwareness #OnlineDiscourse #SyntheticMedia #TechEducation
This Post (Wont Delete Now or Ever)
There’s a trend going around on the internet these days, one that’s so painfully obvious and, honestly, kind of pathetic, that it’s almost laughable. You know what I’m talking about. Folks post something, maybe something serious, maybe something dumb, and then they tack on a little note at the end, something like “will delete soon” or “might delete later.” And it’s everywhere. Social media, blogs, forums, even meme pages. Everywhere you look, someone is trying to say […]
If we don't want to say and do horrible things accidentally, reading comprehension is very important.
Especially on the Internet, where we could have nuance if we ever chose to make any space whatsoever for it.
#AntiRacism #Racism #SocialJustice #ReadingComprehension #Nuance #OnlineDiscourse #Discourse
Why We Get So Defensive: A Personal Reflection on Identity, Belief, and Ego
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Digital activism has transformed how we mobilize, resist, and demand change. But beyond tactics lies the challenge of not replicating the harm we seek to change. Drawing on insights from Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nonviolent Communication this article calls to rehumanize our digital interactions and reclaim empathy as a radical force for transformation.
Read more: https://digital-peace.org/empathy-in-digital-activism/
#Nonviolence #polarisation #onlinediscourse #digitalactivism #networkedactivism
"A New #Research Module for Identifying Both #Toxic and #Prosocial Interactions in #OnlineDiscourse
Communalytic Introduces #CivilityAnalyzerModule - Social Media Lab
https://socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/17/communalytic-introduces-civility-analyzer/
#socialmedia
#researchfediverse
#fediresearch
#datacollection
#SocialMediaPlatforms #Communalytic
#socialsciences
#dataanalysis
When digital platforms reward hate, where does discourse go to survive?
This week on The Internet is Crack, we talk with Alice Marwick (Director of Research at @datasociety) about the toxic incentives driving online hate, incivility, and division.
🎙️ This clip explores how polarization has become a powder keg.
Listen here: https://youtu.be/VQvzxDak_Z0
#FediVerse #DigitalCulture #Podcast #Disinformation #OnlineDiscourse #SocialMediaHarm
Raising the Standard in a Sea of Noise
Clear thinking online is harder than ever. In a noisy world of bad arguments and easy outrage, staying reasonable is an act of hope—and defiance.
https://islandinthenet.com/raising-the-standard-in-a-sea-of-noise/
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Someone dared #misuse #AI to infiltrate a #subreddit where opinions go to die. 🤖🗣️ The horror! Surely, this unapproved "experiment" will revolutionize the art #of dubious online discourse... or maybe just ruin someone's karma. 🕵️♂️💬
https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/ #OnlineDiscourse #Drama #Ethics #AI #InternetCulture #HackerNews #ngated
This Miss Manners inquiry in The Washington Post, written by a retired attorney who enjoys "commenting on stories in the newspapers," made me chortle:
"...[I]t chaps my proverbial hide when people reply to my comments in ways that not only do not enhance or improve but, by their pedestrian nature, actually detract from the feng shui of my thoughtfully crafted comment."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2022/12/06/miss-manners-crafted-comments-replies/
#Etiquette #NewspaperCommenters #OnlineDiscourse #Writing #Retirement #MissManners
Hello @SciBeh friends!
it's good to see you here! I am genuinely hopeful that Mastodon will prove to be a much better place for the kinds of interactions science needs!
will need to work out how best to translate what we do to Mastodon , please bear with me
#scicomm #onlinediscourse
#collective intelligence
