Nate Fast
@natefast.bsky.social
Prof at USC; researching power, tech, & ethics; Director, Neely Center for Ethical Leadership; Co-founder and Co-director, Psychology of Technology Institute
We're excited to announce the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award winners! Please join us in congratulating them!
June 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
We're excited to announce the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award winners! Please join us in congratulating them!
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We asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/
📢In our new report, co-authored with @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social, we examine how people in🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation.
We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).
We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).
December 5, 2024 at 7:11 PM
We asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/
Happy to share this piece I wrote for the SF Chronicle on how we can have more productive, respectful political conversations. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Yes, Americans are divided. But it doesn’t have to be this way
Under the right conditions, we are surprisingly capable of communicating and co-existing across difference.
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December 4, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Happy to share this piece I wrote for the SF Chronicle on how we can have more productive, respectful political conversations. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
This is a thoughtful thread, thanks
I started a collective document of the best post-election reads (link at the end of the thread). Here’s what I’ve found most illuminating. I’m curious how these working thoughts resonate with others and what you think I’m most missing:
November 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM
This is a thoughtful thread, thanks
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@elijfinkel.bsky.social and @nourkteily.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc for their new Center for Enlightened Disagreement: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjI3Nw==
Come join an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers at Northwestern U, Kellogg School of Management!
Come join an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers at Northwestern U, Kellogg School of Management!
Northwestern Faculty Search -
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu
November 12, 2024 at 10:39 PM
@elijfinkel.bsky.social and @nourkteily.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc for their new Center for Enlightened Disagreement: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjI3Nw==
Come join an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers at Northwestern U, Kellogg School of Management!
Come join an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers at Northwestern U, Kellogg School of Management!
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Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 10, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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Welcome new followers! If you're new to us, we're a nonprofit R&D lab trying to reimagine social media. We think every community in America deserves a healthy digital public space.
More on our three main focuses below!
More on our three main focuses below!
New_ Public
We are researchers, engineers, designers, and community leaders working together to create digital public spaces where people can thrive and connect.
newpublic.org
November 12, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Welcome new followers! If you're new to us, we're a nonprofit R&D lab trying to reimagine social media. We think every community in America deserves a healthy digital public space.
More on our three main focuses below!
More on our three main focuses below!
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Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi
Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi
Waymo has opened its robotaxi service to everyone in Los Angeles, sunsetting a waitlist that had grown to 300,000 people. The Alphabet-backed company said starting Tuesday anyone can download the Waymo One app to hail a ride in its service area, which is…
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November 12, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi
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Really fantastic paper led by Zarine Kharazian about governance capture within self-governing communities, featuring a case study of the Croatian language Wikipedia community. Zarine will be presenting at CSCW this week.
i guess "governance capture" may be kind of relevant these days... i'll be at CSCW this week presenting our paper with @mako.cc and @katestarbird.bsky.social exploring why some self-governing online communities are more vulnerable to capture than others: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
What types of governance arrangements make some self-governed online groups more vulnerable
to disinformation campaigns? We present a qualitative comparative analysis of the
Croatian and Serbian Wikip...
dl.acm.org
November 9, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Really fantastic paper led by Zarine Kharazian about governance capture within self-governing communities, featuring a case study of the Croatian language Wikipedia community. Zarine will be presenting at CSCW this week.
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New job post at Northeastern! on AI governance. Hope to have some CSS applicants.
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northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor in AI Governance
About the Opportunity The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its nine tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, th...
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November 12, 2024 at 5:55 PM
New job post at Northeastern! on AI governance. Hope to have some CSS applicants.
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Ten charts showing tech diffusion by @azeem.bsky.social GenAI adoption is off to a faster start than the internet and computers (Fig 4)
www.exponentialview.co/p/10-charts-...
www.exponentialview.co/p/10-charts-...
🔮 Ten charts to understand the Exponential Age
This week marks the 500th edition of the Sunday newsletter.
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November 12, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Ten charts showing tech diffusion by @azeem.bsky.social GenAI adoption is off to a faster start than the internet and computers (Fig 4)
www.exponentialview.co/p/10-charts-...
www.exponentialview.co/p/10-charts-...