The project partners reunited at @itecmmc for a final project review. Thank you #Horizon2020 @EU_Commission it has been an honour to collaborate for the Future Hyper-connected Sociality. @UvA_Amsterdam @mscdigsoc @UOhrid @MOGTechnologies @AgiliaCenter @vialog_io @bitYogaAS @itec

RT @aakashg0: Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world. But what does it mean for you?. I spent the evening analyzing it. Here’s what….

While we dream of building intelligence in a machine, we don’t want to see that there is so much intelligence in nature we haven’t explored yet. via

Why do you also refer to the planet-part when talking about AI? At present the CO2-emission of AI- and internet of things-applications combined is about two percent and it is growing. [For comparison: this 2% is roughly the same as the CO2-footprint of the airline industry.].

We urgently need ‘AI translators’, people who translate the needs and demands of engineers to managers, or the concerns of citizens to developers. We need people who can talk about all aspects of AI, people who can connect people, planet and profit. @miekedk via @ScienceMediaHub.

The platform’s source code is public, so users can contribute, fix bugs, and add new features. Some analysts believe Twitter should pursue a similar strategy.

“Decentralized” is Web3’s biggest buzzword and means that Mastodon lets users create their own versions of its server, rather than being bound to a central one. Servers are hosted by individuals or organizations who can set their own content moderation rules.

Eugen Rochko reported that #Mastodon surpassed 1m users this month, with 489k joining since Musk’s Twitter takeover.

We shared our results in more than 70 scientific peer-reviewed publications and over 60 events and activities. We also secured two patents and have made the entire toolset for DApp development available on GitHub under the Apache 2 licence.

Our Results in Brief article we recently collaborated with @CORDIS_EU has been published on the CORDIS.website in six languages:

. and what that might mean for issues of trust, power and democracy. And I really think questions of the future of social media are going to need to tackle these in a range of different ways that rely on that interdisciplinary.

. social and cultural understandings with technical understandings of how we construct our social media platforms have been really interesting. And I think the use cases that we've drawn on in the project raised some really interesting questions about decentralising social media.

For me, some of the really interesting and important lessons that I've learned have been around the value of interdisciplinary conversations. As social scientists, we unpack what it means to be social on social media. But combining those kinds of. .

"Hi, My name is Kate Orton-Johnson, and I'm a digital sociologist based at the University of Edinburgh, and one of the sociologists that's been participating in the ARTICONF project." @katyoj

For a decent life on social media, we should all have access to decentralised social media →

We also interviewed academics and business people working on Blockchain. There's a big knowledge gap, from the ideations to the complete applications. There seemed to be a big disconnect. Our work was to develop theoretical and practical bridges to better inform social actors.

. It required extra effort to understand people's hopes, dreams and fears were because they didn't have a very clear grasp of the technology. So we learned there are many knowledge gaps and doubts about #blockchain, even among those actively working in their development. .

Hello, I'm Pedro Jacobetty @pboxpj and I'm a sociologist working in ARTICONF. Blockchain technology is still in an embryonic phase, which made sociological research with possible future adopters something very challenging.

Such an ecosystem would rely on infrastructure publicly funded by states but democratically controlled by civil society organisations.

Good examples are supranational and intergovernmental organisations such as the European Union and the European Central Bank. The acknowledgement of a public, not-for-profit social media ecosystem not controlled by any particular state may be a fundamental right in today’s world.

States cooperate, sacrifice control and even fund independent transnational entities when this is strategic and beneficial for harmonious international relations. Such entities limit individual states and allow dealing with issues at a level beyond the singular nation-state.