Patrick Gildersleve
Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Communications and AI at the University of Exeter
Prev. LSE Methodology, PhD Oxford Internet Institute
Wikipedia, News, Attention
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🌐 https://gildersleve.uk
- We had a blast hosting Sarah @craicexeter.bsky.social . We should be having more of these much needed discussions as scholars - Sarah’s talk featured a great mix of critical edge and openness to dialogue
- Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia! 🥳 A fitting moment to share 1. Their great site to mark the occasion: wikipedia25.org 2. A paper in Big Data & Society, published over the winter break, where we develop Wikipedia as a “Refractive Dataset”, led by @beeeeeers.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
- I’m chuffed to share that I’ve been awarded this grant with @ftripodi.bsky.social and Brett Zehner 🥳 We’ll be studying how AI systems may reproduce or reinforce biases in Wikipedia, whether by extracting knowledge from the platform or by contributing content back to it. Excited to get started!
- We’re excited to announce seven newly funded projects that will establish and strengthen collaborations between US and UK researchers exploring and addressing the ethical, legal, and societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI): braiduk.org/new-projects...
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- I enjoyed writing this piece for the LSE Impact Blog on Musk's latest swing at Wikipedia, and its future in a hostile AI-skewed political landscape 👇
- 💥New: Grokipedia falls flat, but AI is already rewriting Wikipedia’s future ✍️ @gildersleve.uk #Grok #Grokipedia #Wikipedia #LLMs
- It was a great experience organising this workshop with colleagues - looking forward to more good CrAIC!
- CrAIC Launch Workshop is a success! 🌟 Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together. Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵
- Super excited for the launch workshop for our research centre. Sign up below for the public roundtable!
- A really great read overall on how Wikipedia has survived the Internet, and the challenges it still faces. Going straight on my students' reading lists!
- A depressing juxtaposition of news stories, there is such a disconnect in the national conversation. A public figure directly calling for violence against trans people is met with police sympathy and instead we get phone ban campaigns to tackle online harms 🙃.
- Troubling news as Wikimedia's claim against the OSA is dismissed. This opens the door for onerous new requirements such as ID verification and stricter content moderation. These measures run antithetical to Wikipedia's practical operation and core principles as the encyclopaedia anyone can edit.
- For even more WikiResearch at #IC2S2, I'm presenting our work on WikiReddit on Wednesday 14:30 in 'Social Media II' 🧑💻 I'll explain how these complementary platforms are powered by the magic of ✨𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲✨, and how our dataset can be used to study cross-platform flows of information and attention 🔀
- Great session on Wikipedia at #IC2S2 with some very cool research. Strong themes of multilingual analysis and coordination dynamics @smfsamir.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social
- Great session on Wikipedia at #IC2S2 with some very cool research. Strong themes of multilingual analysis and coordination dynamics @smfsamir.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social
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- Had a great time meeting everyone and seeing all the interesting work @icwsm.bsky.social. I presented our study on the Wikireddit dataset - exploring Wikipedia’s role in fact-checking, discussion, and cross-platform attention on the web. Thank you to the organisers! 📄: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
- Important starter pack research in action! I received lots of follow notifications during this talk - hopefully this work prompts more ICWSM activity here!
- I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs. For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky! Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7 Let me know if I missed anyone!at://did:plc:nggqjgdkqhytcag6x7fhiyuv/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ls4fy33kpd2r
- Very cool work at #ICWSM tracking information manipulation in response to national regulation on the Russian Wikipedia fork From Mykola Trokhymovych, @elaragon.bsky.social, @e-migrante.bsky.social & others
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- 📄 Excited to share a new dataset preprint! WikiReddit: Tracing Information and Attention Flows Between Online Platforms A collaboration with @beeeeeers.bsky.social, Viviane Ito, Agustin Orozco, and @ftripodi.bsky.social at @citap.bsky.social .
- Reposted by Patrick Gildersleve📣Call for papers! Dr Daniel de Kadt and @audreyalejandro.bsky.social are hosting a two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Patrick GildersleveI wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves. slate.com/technology/2...
- 🚨New preprint! 📰The News Comment Gap and Algorithmic Agenda Setting in Online Forums w/ Flora Böwing We study: 1) The differences in comment preferences between journalists and readers 2) How comment ranking algorithms prioritise different kinds of comments to display to users 🧵
- Excited to be at #IC2S2 2024! I’ll be presenting “The News Comment Gap and Algorithmic Agenda Setting in Online Forums” in session 3C, Friday 11am. Say hi if you want to connect👋
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- Delighted to share that I will be starting as Lecturer (≈ TT Asst Prof) in Communications and Artificial Intelligence at @uniofexeter.bsky.social this September. Looking forward to this new chapter! 🥳 x.com/ExeterComms/...
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