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fheinderyckx

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• Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
• CIVIS European University Alliance
• Academia Europaea
• ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication

· Journalism
· New/s Media
· Political Communication
· Science Communication
· (Social) Science Outreach

#commodon
#journalism
#polcom

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fheinderyckx, to privacy
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A few months ago, I added this image to my homepage for anyone to see, at a glance, where I stand when it comes to social media sites. Feel free to reuse!
#privacy #TakingBackControl

jon, to random
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Trying to help a friend get from Madrid to Paris 8 June. And I want to 😭

€122 for the best timed TGV train to Paris €97 is the cheapest
Cheapest flights from €43
Other flights €54 - €74

fheinderyckx,
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@jon
Absurd. Misplaced public subsidies die hard, even in a climate emergency.

fheinderyckx, to journalism
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Harrowing but incisive reality check on quality newspapers in the US, by @jeffjarvis :
“These three newspapers [New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal], which in the winners-take-most market of media today capture two thirds of subscription revenue, each have wonderful journalists doing good and important work. But they are betrayed by their institutions, which are losing trust and refuse to ask why.”
https://buzzmachine.com/2024/04/26/the-times-is-broken/

fheinderyckx, to Signal
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I'm a huge fan and active advocate for @signalapp . I tell everyone to give up WhatsApp and adopt Signal. But I had to reinstall on my phone and not only did I loose all conversations on my phone: I seem locked out of my groups where nothing comes in, even for the group I admin. All is fine on my laptop and desktop, but disaster on the phone. I followed all the instructions on the support pages, to no avail. This is really unexpected and hugely disappointing.

fheinderyckx, to random
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Consumers: We're sick and tired of being the product, of being data harvested, and being constantly assaulted by marketing.

Content providers: That's our business model, else we'd have to charge you a subscription.

Consumers: Fine! I recongnize that quality content comes with costs, and I'm willing to pay my fair share.

Content providers: Swell. Here's your invoice. We'll keep harvesting your data and flood your with ads though.

#BigTech #BusinessModel #SurveillanceCapitalism

fheinderyckx, to random
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“tech makes finding these conspiracy fantasies easier than ever, and […] tech makes forming communities of conspiratorial belief easier, too. But the vulnerability to conspiratorialism [is] a function of corruption – of life in a world in which real conspiracies (to steal your wages, or let rich people escape the consequences of their crimes, or sacrifice your safety to protect large firms' profits) are everywhere.”
@pluralistic,
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/

fheinderyckx, to random
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“Maybe people believe in conspiracy theories because they have hundreds of life-or-death decisions to make every day, and the institutions that are supposed to make that possible keep proving that they can't be trusted. Nevertheless, those decisions have to be made, and so something needs to fill the epistemological void left by the manifest unsoundness of the black box where the decisions get made.”
@pluralistic, Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/

jon, to random
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Welcome to 2024 Extra Day 20 March – Bruxelles – Essen – Rosendaal – Kapellen – Charleroi – Berzée

Today I’m crossing these borders
Essen 🇧🇪 - Rosendaal 🇳🇱
Former 1000mm tramway - Zandvliet 🇧🇪 - Bergen op Zoom 🇳🇱

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#10/51.3791/4.4934

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-2024-extra-day-20-march-bruxelles-essen-rosendaal-kapellen-charleroi-berzee/

fheinderyckx,
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@jon
The situation is remarkably inconsistent. The name of some cities within Belgium are translated, others aren't, and even more problematic is the translation of cities in neighboring countries. If you're driving through Belgium trying to find your way to Lille, France, you might miss some of the signs pointing to Rijsel (!?). Recently, it was agreed (but not fully implemented) that signs should name cities in the language of the destination, not the language of the location of the sign. 🤷🏻‍♂️

fheinderyckx, to Bulgaria
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John Naughton: “The existential challenge for societies today is whether they are capable of reining in tech power. (…)The question is whether liberal democracies are up to the job. The significance of the DMA is that it’s the first time we’ve really had a proper shot at it. So this is a critical experiment for democracies; and there’s a lot hanging on the outcome.”
#EU #DMA #Regulation #BigTech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/09/painful-day-for-tech-titans-as-eu-finally-sinks-its-regulatory-teeth-into-them

fheinderyckx, to ai
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AI researchers are calling on organizations to provide basic protections and more equitable access for independent testing of Generative AI models.
If you agree, please sign and share the letter:
https://sites.mit.edu/ai-safe-harbor/
#AI #Research @communicationscholars

jeffjarvis, to random
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I eagerly await Vice: The Movie.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/27/vice-clever-irreverent-executives-helped-kill-it

fheinderyckx,
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@jeffjarvis
Rather a multi-season series on AppleTV+, à la The Morning Show. How about “Of Vice and Men” ?

shoq, to random
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Something I dislike about all social media is that I can’t reply to or CC someone and start and interesting conversation w/o automatically enrolling those I started with. It forces them to mute the conversation thread if they’re not interested in engaging. There are several solutions that are unlikely to appear in Activity Pub anytime soon. I dislike that about the experience. There is such a backlog of needed features or tweaks, proposing new ones can feel like carping.

fheinderyckx,
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@shoq
Mastodon offers unparalleled flexibility in that respect, as all your posts, including replies, can be "public", "followers only" or "specific people" of your own choosing.

fheinderyckx,
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@shoq
You're right: it doesn't seem so far fetched, technically.
Let's poke @Gargron !
#WishList

fheinderyckx, to Brussels
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Full-time academic position in Brussels (domain: Communication) — deadline extension until 21 March.
Full vacancy:
In French: https://cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modules/vac/data/sources/pdf/prod/8512.pdf
In English: https://cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modules/vac/data/sources/pdf/prod/8511.pdf
#academic #job #communication #university #Brussels @communicationscholars

jeffjarvis, to random
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They're not isolationist. They're Putinist. They're authoritarian. They're fascist....
The Isolationist G.O.P., Again https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/opinion/gop-senate-ukraine-aid.html?smid=tw-share

fheinderyckx,
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@jeffjarvis
Euphemism aggravates both-sidesism to corrode political journalism into obsolescence.

jeffjarvis, to random
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"Dicey"? Oh, hell, Washington Post, you can do better than that....
The dicey push to impeach Secretary Mayorkas https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/02/mayorkas-impeachment-politics/

fheinderyckx,
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@jeffjarvis
Unfortunate, but commonplace confusion between the much needed nuance, and the utterly toxic euphemisms.

Gargron, to random
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With @grishka at our stand!

fheinderyckx,
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@Gargron @grishka
Welcome at @ULBruxelles !

jeffjarvis, to random
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Number of books sold needed to break even in 1880s: 1,000. By 1914: 1,500. In the '40s: 2,500. In the '50s: 5-10,000. Today?
Figures from The Book Trade in the Gilded Age, Donald Sheehan (1951).

fheinderyckx,
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@jeffjarvis
Today, if it's published under Gold Open Access or any of those quirky new publishing models where processing charges are paid by the authors, books and journals break even before they're even released. Self-publication 2.0

fheinderyckx, to random
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In France, @cnrs (Europe's largest public funding agency for fundamental research) unsubscribes from Elsevier's Scopus database, as a step towards relying exclusively on open solutions (whenever these solutions become available).
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/cnrs-has-unsubscribed-scopus-publications-database

jeffjarvis, to random
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I was once dumped from the BBC for saying "crap," which I thought would be preferable to "shit," but apparently not....
Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/06/swearing-is-becoming-more-widely-acceptable-linguistics-experts-claim?CMP=share_btn_tw

fheinderyckx,
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@jeffjarvis

Ghastly.

claesdevreese, to Health
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Not new. Still relevant.
2024: take holidays 🌈 😎 🏝️ ⛷️

“The frequency of annual vacations by middle-aged men at high risk for CHD is associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality and, more specifically, mortality attributed to CHD. Vacationing may be good for your health.”

#academicchatter #lifehack #vacation #health

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11020089/

fheinderyckx,
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@claesdevreese
I've always found that the very notion of vacation is especially thorny for academics. Once you find, say, a full week to focus on some writing project, it feels like such a treat, a complete break from the mind-numbing tasks you had to finish first (marking, reporting, applying…). Yet it doesn't qualify as “vacation” proper, but comes close cognitively. Like a non-academic finally allowed to indulge in one's favourite hobby.

fheinderyckx,
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@claesdevreese
But then, what about one full reading week!? 🤓

fheinderyckx, to communicationscholars
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Must read: @jeffjarvis leans on Arendt, Kornhauser, @ICAHDQ, @Chanders, Carey, @snurb and many other brilliant minds to argue masterfully that we must shift focus from a crisis of disinformation to one of believing and belonging: “The danger is in not belonging, and filling that void with malign substitutes for true community: joining a cult of personality or conspiracies, an insurrection, or some nihilistic, depraved perversion of a religion.”
https://medium.com/whither-news/journalism-belief-belonging-07a8dabe35e4
@communicationscholars

fheinderyckx, to mastodon
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✅ New Year Resolution: I'm switching back to @mozilla Firefox as my default browser. This is consistent with my using Mastodon, Signal, Zotero, and other outstanding privacy mindful Open Source alternatives to the data- and dollar-hungry apps of the monopolistic tech giants.

fheinderyckx, to ai
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“Artificial intelligence is automating the creation of fake news, spurring an explosion of web content mimicking factual articles that instead disseminates false information about elections, wars and natural disasters.” writes @pranshuverma
Gift link for everyone to read:
https://wapo.st/3Nz16RX
#FakeNews #Misinformation #Propaganda #Election #AI

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