Elliot Panek
@elpanek.bsky.social
Prof in University of Alabama's Department of Journalism & Creative Media.
I know misinformation is everywhere, but I've been skeptical that exposure to it results in changes of opinion or voting behavior.
This paper has a clever design, using linguistic differences as a proxy for exposure to fake news. Interesting findings as well! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This paper has a clever design, using linguistic differences as a proxy for exposure to fake news. Interesting findings as well! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM
I know misinformation is everywhere, but I've been skeptical that exposure to it results in changes of opinion or voting behavior.
This paper has a clever design, using linguistic differences as a proxy for exposure to fake news. Interesting findings as well! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This paper has a clever design, using linguistic differences as a proxy for exposure to fake news. Interesting findings as well! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy News Engagement Day!
Here's a great article by Caitlin Dewey for Poynter about how journalists can use generative AI in their everyday work: www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
Here's a great article by Caitlin Dewey for Poynter about how journalists can use generative AI in their everyday work: www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
October 3, 2023 at 1:35 PM
Happy News Engagement Day!
Here's a great article by Caitlin Dewey for Poynter about how journalists can use generative AI in their everyday work: www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
Here's a great article by Caitlin Dewey for Poynter about how journalists can use generative AI in their everyday work: www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
Professors teach (or try to teach) students how to be screenwriters, directors, producers, broadcasters, editors, sound engineers, etc.
Can they teach them how to be influencers?
elliotpanek.blogspot.com/2023/09/so-y...
Can they teach them how to be influencers?
elliotpanek.blogspot.com/2023/09/so-y...
September 28, 2023 at 1:12 AM
Professors teach (or try to teach) students how to be screenwriters, directors, producers, broadcasters, editors, sound engineers, etc.
Can they teach them how to be influencers?
elliotpanek.blogspot.com/2023/09/so-y...
Can they teach them how to be influencers?
elliotpanek.blogspot.com/2023/09/so-y...
Feels like Twitter/X isn't "dying" (in the way that MySpace & Google+ died) but instead is shifting functions from quasi-public square to a place to see celebrities' & micro-celebrities' posts + news (both of which have plenty of cultural & monetary value)
September 26, 2023 at 1:51 PM
Feels like Twitter/X isn't "dying" (in the way that MySpace & Google+ died) but instead is shifting functions from quasi-public square to a place to see celebrities' & micro-celebrities' posts + news (both of which have plenty of cultural & monetary value)
Reposted by Elliot Panek
TikTok as Television -
This is what my students argue: That TikTok isn't really a social space; it's their entertainment (and increasingly their information source for DIY / how-to)
Faltesek et al, Social Media + Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231194576
This is what my students argue: That TikTok isn't really a social space; it's their entertainment (and increasingly their information source for DIY / how-to)
Faltesek et al, Social Media + Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231194576
September 11, 2023 at 3:34 PM
TikTok as Television -
This is what my students argue: That TikTok isn't really a social space; it's their entertainment (and increasingly their information source for DIY / how-to)
Faltesek et al, Social Media + Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231194576
This is what my students argue: That TikTok isn't really a social space; it's their entertainment (and increasingly their information source for DIY / how-to)
Faltesek et al, Social Media + Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231194576
A.I.-assisted writing is most similar to:
A) the word processor: disruptive but eventually widely accepted
B) machine generated art: largely rejected by the market, regardless of its qualities
C) performance enhancing drugs: obviously advantageous & treated as "unfair" (regulated or banned)
?
A) the word processor: disruptive but eventually widely accepted
B) machine generated art: largely rejected by the market, regardless of its qualities
C) performance enhancing drugs: obviously advantageous & treated as "unfair" (regulated or banned)
?
September 10, 2023 at 5:27 PM
A.I.-assisted writing is most similar to:
A) the word processor: disruptive but eventually widely accepted
B) machine generated art: largely rejected by the market, regardless of its qualities
C) performance enhancing drugs: obviously advantageous & treated as "unfair" (regulated or banned)
?
A) the word processor: disruptive but eventually widely accepted
B) machine generated art: largely rejected by the market, regardless of its qualities
C) performance enhancing drugs: obviously advantageous & treated as "unfair" (regulated or banned)
?
For SO many written assignments, I'm only concerned w/ students' IDEAS, and their lousy grammar gets in the way. Having them feed their writing to ChatGPT or Quillbot to improve the grammar before they submit it just seems like a better way to do things. Better yet: build it into Blackboard.
September 9, 2023 at 3:02 PM
For SO many written assignments, I'm only concerned w/ students' IDEAS, and their lousy grammar gets in the way. Having them feed their writing to ChatGPT or Quillbot to improve the grammar before they submit it just seems like a better way to do things. Better yet: build it into Blackboard.
I'm sold on the utility of ChatGPT in many tasks relating to many types of writing. The key skills to cultivate now are good prompt-writing & good evaluating/editing of output. Anyone know of courses that teach best practices of these skills (i.e., how to write well w/ ChatGPT)?
September 7, 2023 at 4:13 PM
I'm sold on the utility of ChatGPT in many tasks relating to many types of writing. The key skills to cultivate now are good prompt-writing & good evaluating/editing of output. Anyone know of courses that teach best practices of these skills (i.e., how to write well w/ ChatGPT)?