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Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org .. more

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Alice E. Marwick is a communication scholar, academic, and author, who currently works as an Associate Professor in the Communication department and Principal Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an affiliated researcher with the Data and Society Research Institute. Marwick has written for publications such as the New York Times, and the Guardian. Her works include the examination of politics, race, social media and gender. She has been a keynote speaker for various universities throughout the United States. .. more

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Dec 4

Wrote a big hot take for Nieman’s 2025 predictions & managed to shoehorn in a lot of pet peeves while using “epistemic” sparingly www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy

"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental schis...

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Reposted by Alice Marwick, Daxton R. Stewart

Stine Eckert @stineeckert.bsky.social · 4d

“Faculty are walking on eggshells. Administrators are walking on eggshells. Students are walking on eggshells. And what you get is the opposite of free speech.” #USA #highered #academia #surveillance www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Kelly R. Zamudio, Richard Price , and 7 more Richard S.J. Tol, Kelly R. Zamudio, Richard Price, Smith, Michael D. McDonald, Sarah Roberts, Nathan Richardson, Alice Marwick, Manisha Sinha, Daniel Zappala

Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 4d

Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."

This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 5d

New! Anuli Akanegbu’s report “(404) Job Not Found” interrogates what it means to be perceived as “AI literate” in today’s labor market, & how those perceptions are shaping the career outcomes of Black workers who are already navigating a wide range of inequities. 1/6 datasociety.net/library/404-...

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats, how exciting!

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 13d

TikTok’s age-detection tech “will inevitably expand systematic data collection, creating new privacy risks without any clear evidence that it improves youth safety,” Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social tells @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?

TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 13d

As they should dude

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 14d

I gotta hire those Etsy witches ✨

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 14d

That’s gotta be it. Could not possibly have something to do with JK Rowling turning into the queen of TERF island and alienating her entire lefty/queer/feminist/weirdo fan base, who now refuse to read the books to their kids

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

OK now i'm going to waste several cycles today thinking about how i would answer this and why it's O RLY

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

dude you're in Sweden!! That's so awesome

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

i bought em

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

i mean, i am personally hilarious but i don't think my bsky accurately reflects my effervescent personality

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been listening to Answer Me This for a million years, I was so happy when they revived it

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

My husband @harryh.bsky.social in his unlikely role as an @opennewyork.org influencer www.instagram.com/reel/DTx756L...

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

Ok y’all, is there anyone funny on Bluesky? I miss the irreverent mix of humor & celeb/pop music gossip interspersed with the steady drumbeats of a dying murderous empire. Need some of the former to balance out the latter.

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

So deserved! Kate is a fantastic researcher and a fantastic public scholar. Congrats!!!

UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu · 19d

HCDE Professor Kate Starbird has been named an ACM Fellow, one of the highest honors in computing. She's recognized for contributions to understanding and improving information ecosystems, including during crisis events and addressing misinformation. www.hcde.washington.edu/news/article...

Professor Kate Starbird named ACM Fellow for advancing research on misinformation and information ecosystems

HCDE Professor Kate Starbird has been named an ACM Fellow, one of the highest honors in computing, for her groundbreaking research on misinformation and online information ecosystems. The honor recogn...

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 18d

Oh my god I’m such a fan of hers! Will listen today ❤️

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, David Lazer, Greg Linden , and 1 more Joanna Bryson, David Lazer, Greg Linden, Alice Marwick

UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu · 19d

Professor Kate Starbird named ACM Fellow for advancing research on misinformation and information ecosystems

www.hcde.washington.edu

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 19d

Yay

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 19d

Tagging @brianjchen.bsky.social and @datasociety.bsky.social

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 19d

"The problem, then, is not that President Trump is deregulating the AI industry. The problem is that the federal government is using extraordinary power to pursue political goals that will likely prove disastrous to workers, communities, and the environment."

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 19d

THRILLED that Brian Chen's new policy brief, "The Big AI State: How the Trump Administration is Shaping US Industrial Policy toward 'Global Technological Dominance'" is live! Trump is not "deregulating"; his admin is intervening in the market BIG TIME to bolster AI. datasociety.net/library/the-...

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 19d

Are you going to Miami for Knight?

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22d

100%. I was going to share the substack with my labor futures team but… it’s completely unsourced. We’re a research institute so that doesn’t fly.

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22d

From your lips to god’s ears

Reposted by Jon Green, Pamela K. Gilbert, Alice Marwick , and 1 more Jon Green, Pamela K. Gilbert, Alice Marwick, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Open Measures @openmeasures.bsky.social · 26d

Our researchers found at least 450 posts on Telegram dating back to 2020 that shared the song mentioned in this reporting.

Nearly all the posts we found were from explicitly neo-Nazi and white supremacist channels. And a review of our datasets found it hasn't circulated much outside those circles.

Timeline chart of posts promoting a song included in a recent DHS post on X

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 26d

Wow, this is amazing - @kellyfincham.bsky.social synthesized my disinfo work in this good summary piece

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 26d

Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts theconversation.com/why-people-b... by @kellyfincham.bsky.social cc @alicetiara.bsky.social

"When fabricated claims align with a person’s existing values, beliefs and ideologies, they can quickly harden into a kind of 'knowledge'."