Julie Hawke
@juliehawke.bsky.social
△ Peacebuilding, tech, and sociology
I have a new labor of love article in Peacebuilding: "Towards a third side on social media"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Current platform policies reinforce conflict models that are both dyadic and agentic. Helena Puig Larrauri and I show how this is a faulty foundation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Current platform policies reinforce conflict models that are both dyadic and agentic. Helena Puig Larrauri and I show how this is a faulty foundation.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I have a new labor of love article in Peacebuilding: "Towards a third side on social media"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Current platform policies reinforce conflict models that are both dyadic and agentic. Helena Puig Larrauri and I show how this is a faulty foundation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Current platform policies reinforce conflict models that are both dyadic and agentic. Helena Puig Larrauri and I show how this is a faulty foundation.
Why did free speech vanguards change their tune following the murder of Charlie Kirk? Is it possible to leave the low hanging fruit of content moderation alone and reach a little higher up the tree? My initial thoughts here:
howtobuildup.medium.com/moderate-the...
howtobuildup.medium.com/moderate-the...
Moderate Them, Not Us
by Julie Hawke
howtobuildup.medium.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Why did free speech vanguards change their tune following the murder of Charlie Kirk? Is it possible to leave the low hanging fruit of content moderation alone and reach a little higher up the tree? My initial thoughts here:
howtobuildup.medium.com/moderate-the...
howtobuildup.medium.com/moderate-the...
Reposted by Julie Hawke
“It’s an uncomfortable truth that platforms are profiting from this event, and that’s built into deeper structures than content moderation” said @juliehawke.bsky.social, peace-building and research lead (and my colleague!) at Build-Up
@socialcohesiontech.bsky.social
thehill.com/policy/techn...
@socialcohesiontech.bsky.social
thehill.com/policy/techn...
thehill.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“It’s an uncomfortable truth that platforms are profiting from this event, and that’s built into deeper structures than content moderation” said @juliehawke.bsky.social, peace-building and research lead (and my colleague!) at Build-Up
@socialcohesiontech.bsky.social
thehill.com/policy/techn...
@socialcohesiontech.bsky.social
thehill.com/policy/techn...
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“[I]t is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of [online] platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions,” @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Something Is Very Wrong Online
The cycle of violence will continue as long as the medium doesn’t change.
www.theatlantic.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“[I]t is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of [online] platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions,” @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
TB testing for new students is in room 105. My office is 'O 105.' With all the knocks and redirections this morning, I just think I'm missing good opportunities. Oh you thought we were testing for tuberculosis? This is a Toxic Boyfriend screening. A Trust Building exercise. Therapeutic breathing...
August 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
TB testing for new students is in room 105. My office is 'O 105.' With all the knocks and redirections this morning, I just think I'm missing good opportunities. Oh you thought we were testing for tuberculosis? This is a Toxic Boyfriend screening. A Trust Building exercise. Therapeutic breathing...
Are you trained in or currently engaged in responding to toxic speech online, and able to take a short 5-10 minute survey? This survey asks you to reflect on skills and strategies for responding to toxic speech. Thanks in advance for your time!
www.google.com/url?q=https:...
www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Remesh
www.google.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Are you trained in or currently engaged in responding to toxic speech online, and able to take a short 5-10 minute survey? This survey asks you to reflect on skills and strategies for responding to toxic speech. Thanks in advance for your time!
www.google.com/url?q=https:...
www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Reposted by Julie Hawke
Some of you probably have a use for RSS-scraped US news stories from 2022 through 03/2025. This collection apparently has ABC, CBS, CNN, LA Times, NBC, NPR, NYT, Politico, ProPublica, USA Today, and WaPo.
Top News!
Full-text data for about 500k articles from major news organizations from the last few years is now available at
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
@dwillis.bsky.social
Full-text data for about 500k articles from major news organizations from the last few years is now available at
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
@dwillis.bsky.social
dataverse.harvard.edu
April 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Some of you probably have a use for RSS-scraped US news stories from 2022 through 03/2025. This collection apparently has ABC, CBS, CNN, LA Times, NBC, NPR, NYT, Politico, ProPublica, USA Today, and WaPo.
Reposted by Julie Hawke
🔔 (new paper!)
You might have heard of the "Habermas Machine", an AI-human pipeline that is really good at finding common ground between ideologically diverse groups, at least in lab settings.
But can this kind of approach help in real world conflicts?
You might have heard of the "Habermas Machine", an AI-human pipeline that is really good at finding common ground between ideologically diverse groups, at least in lab settings.
But can this kind of approach help in real world conflicts?
March 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🔔 (new paper!)
You might have heard of the "Habermas Machine", an AI-human pipeline that is really good at finding common ground between ideologically diverse groups, at least in lab settings.
But can this kind of approach help in real world conflicts?
You might have heard of the "Habermas Machine", an AI-human pipeline that is really good at finding common ground between ideologically diverse groups, at least in lab settings.
But can this kind of approach help in real world conflicts?
I just finished a syllabus for a hopeful future course that I want to teach so, so badly. In 3-5 years can a university hire me just to run this course?
DYSTOPIAN OR UTOPIAN FUTURES: Technology, Peace, and Conflict through Science Fiction
FALL 3024 (👀) SYLLABUS & COURSE SCHEDULE
DYSTOPIAN OR UTOPIAN FUTURES: Technology, Peace, and Conflict through Science Fiction
FALL 3024 (👀) SYLLABUS & COURSE SCHEDULE
December 18, 2024 at 6:19 AM
I just finished a syllabus for a hopeful future course that I want to teach so, so badly. In 3-5 years can a university hire me just to run this course?
DYSTOPIAN OR UTOPIAN FUTURES: Technology, Peace, and Conflict through Science Fiction
FALL 3024 (👀) SYLLABUS & COURSE SCHEDULE
DYSTOPIAN OR UTOPIAN FUTURES: Technology, Peace, and Conflict through Science Fiction
FALL 3024 (👀) SYLLABUS & COURSE SCHEDULE
Reposted by Julie Hawke
Not today Statan, not today
#sociology
#sociology
December 11, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Not today Statan, not today
#sociology
#sociology
Reposted by Julie Hawke
Seems like maybe there should be laws preventing this.
Elon Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help Donald Trump win the presidency, federal filings revealed.
Elon Musk Spent Over $250 Million to Help Elect Trump
The enormous spending from the world’s richest man quietly fueled allied groups and was revealed only now, as Mr. Musk plays a key role in the presidential transition.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Seems like maybe there should be laws preventing this.
Reposted by Julie Hawke
So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
this is kind of a niche issue but: if you are getting weird and hostile responses that feel a little off, there are some folks on here making accounts that automatically reply to large quantities of posts in a vaguely hostile manner. you can ignore them, and also, it's not personal
December 3, 2024 at 1:55 PM
So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
New article: Understanding to intervene: The codesign of text classifiers with peace practitioners
👉 bit.ly/3Or79rX
#machinelearning #socialmedia #peacebuilding
👉 bit.ly/3Or79rX
#machinelearning #socialmedia #peacebuilding
Understanding to intervene: The codesign of text classifiers with peace practitioners | Data & Policy | Cambridge Core
Understanding to intervene: The codesign of text classifiers with peace practitioners - Volume 6
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December 5, 2024 at 2:21 PM
New article: Understanding to intervene: The codesign of text classifiers with peace practitioners
👉 bit.ly/3Or79rX
#machinelearning #socialmedia #peacebuilding
👉 bit.ly/3Or79rX
#machinelearning #socialmedia #peacebuilding
Consciousness and bureaucracy - The two words that have always escaped my spelling capabilities and also the two words I keep writing papers about
December 5, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Consciousness and bureaucracy - The two words that have always escaped my spelling capabilities and also the two words I keep writing papers about