BA in French Teaching; PhD in Educational Technology; Assistant Professor of ICT at University of Kentucky School of Information Science
I’m a digital methods researcher studying meaning making in educational, religious, and political communities on online platforms.
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interview with WEKU on Buffalo shooting and social media content moderation
Last week, I was interviewed by a reporter at WEKU about social media and content moderation in the context of the horrific recent shooting in Buffalo, and I was pleased to see the interview appear on the WEKU website this morning.
I wish that the headline didn’t frame this as a question of “free speech”—and that I’d perhaps been more forceful in emphasizing that these really aren’t questions of free speech so much as content moderation.
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quoted in Salt Lake Tribune on LDS missionaries' use of social media
Last week, I got the chance to chat with Salt Lake Tribune religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack about Latter-day Saint missionaries use of social media videos, and I was pleased to see the article published on Sunday. I hadn’t been paying attention to online missionary videos, but the subject fit nicely with the reading I’ve been doing on platform and platform values recently:
Both kinds of accounts “are drawing from the internet/influencer cultures of these platforms,” [Greenhalgh] says.
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linkblog: my thoughts on 'Intel Wants To Add Unproven ‘Emotion Detection’ AI To Distance Learning Tech | Techdirt'
The only way to make emotion detection tech worse is, of course, to make it ed tech.
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linkblog: my thoughts on 'Columbia Professor Expresses Doubts over University Ranking - The New York Times'
This is why I’m skeptical of terms like data driven decision making, which are meant to sound objective but cannot live up to their rhetorical power.
link to ‘Columbia Professor Expresses Doubts over University Ranking - The New York Times’
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linkblog: my thoughts on 'George Washington University apologizes for tracking locations of students, faculty | TheHill'
Certainly not the worst news I’ve read this morning, but still tremendously worrying.
link to ‘George Washington University apologizes for tracking locations of students, faculty | TheHill’
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linkblog: my thoughts on 'Proctorio subpoenas digital rights group in legal spat with student - The Verge'
Boo on Proctorio.
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linkblog: my thoughts on 'A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to Incriminate Students – The Markup'
Let me get this straight: Invasive surveillance isn’t enough, now companies are creating opportunities to cheat just so they can ding them and take credit for stopping it?
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linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
Doctorow tackles the grossest parts of ed tech. It’s a great read.
[link to ‘Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow’](https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/16/unauthorized-paper/
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linkblog: just finished 'College Prep Software Naviance Is Selling Advertising Access to Millions of Students – The Markup'
Ed tech should not be ad tech.
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linkblog: just finished 'Amazon Paid for a High School Course. Here’s What They Teach.'
So much ugh. Big Amazon presence here in KY, so wonder when we’ll start to see this.
link to ‘Amazon Paid for a High School Course. Here’s What They Teach.’
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linkblog: just finished 'Students Are Learning To Resist Surveillance: Year in Review 2021 | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
Such an important read.
link to ‘Students Are Learning To Resist Surveillance: Year in Review 2021 | Electronic Frontier Foundation’
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linkblog: just finished 'Personalized Learning Debates Put Too Much Emphasis on Technology, School Leaders Say'
Lots in here that reminds me of Watters’s comments on personalization.
link to ‘Personalized Learning Debates Put Too Much Emphasis on Technology, School Leaders Say’