Nicole K. Stewart
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Researches: platform studies / communication technologies / digital media + cultures
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartAs these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartDo you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewarti wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
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- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartIn our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
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- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartI was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
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- I’m looking for scholarship that connects Judith Butler’s work on performativity with propaganda. Does anyone have any recommendations?
- Looks like live is (finally) coming to Bluesky!
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- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewart"A WIRED review of hundreds of Telegram channels run by Proud Boy chapters across the country, as well as other far-right extremist and militia groups, reveals that there are no public calls for members to mobilize and defend ICE from the protesters." @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports:
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartThere’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
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- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartWhat can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartSyllabus help: Looking for an article about eugenics history that can help introduce students (especially upper level undergrads) to the history of eugenics in the 19th-20th c in the US. It’s for a class where students’ main competencies are mostly not humanities/social sciences. Suggestions?
- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewartsomebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewart--Think Différant-- Since mainstream analytic philosophy is clearly struggling to wrap its head around the writing of #LLM #AI, a better approach might be to consult the one philosopher who took WRITING seriously as a philosophical problem: Jacques Derrida. doi.org/10.1007/s001...
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- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewart"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.
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- Happy to share this new publication: “Learning on the live feed: A social constructivist approach to discourse and dialogue on social media platforms,” now in Communication Teacher. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Earlier this year, @hoornazkeshava.bsky.social and I published “Make Iran great again”: Apolitical influencers and the revival of a romantic patriarchal nationalism. If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, you're in luck - the article is now open access: academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewartall i'm saying is that there were better options
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- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartThis entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartFraming GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartNew from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
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- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewart"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartPROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartHere it is with the byline and alt text
- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewartcan’t fucking catch a breath make it stop
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartNEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartMeta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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- Reposted by Nicole K. Stewartwww.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartAI is becoming a big part of kids’ lives—but it raises questions about safety, fairness, and bias. 🤖 @mariyastoilova.bsky.social & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social explore the pitfalls and promises in their latest Media@LSE blog: 🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartBREAKING: A federal judge ordered public schools in Texas to remove displays of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartNEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartWe didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
- Reposted by Nicole K. StewartONLINE FIRST! This article by @nicolestewart.bsky.social, Joseph M. Nicolai and Graeme Beamiss examines how streamers-as-news-providers on #Twitch remix and amplify secondary #news sources for followers, and develops a new “platform #streaming framework”. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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