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Tim Hector
@timmoritz.bsky.social
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Applied/Media Linguistics (SFB1187, Uni Siegen) · Supervisory Board, UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe · Former Chair, Wikimedia Deutschland
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astrokatie.com
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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archive.org
As one of the most popular IRC (Internet Relay Chat) clients, mIRC brought real-time online communities to life in the ’90s. Today, mIRC still serves a dedicated base of developers, hobbyists, & open-source communities.

Explore web history with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ xttps://web.archive.org/
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now." Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the mIRC website from December 21, 1996, alongside a capture from June 1, 2025
June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
timmoritz.bsky.social
New publication: In this open access article in AI&Society, I introduce the concept of “joint journeys” to show how voice assistants become gradually embedded in everyday life – where linguistic practices, domestic routines and global connectivity intersect.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Joint journeys: the linguistic domestication of smart speakers and their users in interaction - AI & SOCIETY
This article develops the concept of joint journeys as a metaphor to analyze how smart speakers become embedded in everyday domestic life and to trace the reciprocal, linguistically-mediated processes...
link.springer.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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wikimediafoundation.org
Before Wikipedia was in your pocket, it was on a CD 💿

Today in 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation released Wikipedia Version 0.5 – a compact disc with almost 2,000 articles. Read the original, archived 2007 press release ➡️ w.wiki/DPDw
Two CDs stacked, with the bottom one inserted into a clear cover. Text says: In 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation released Wikipedia Version 0.5, a CD collection of selected articles intended to make the free encyclopedia available to those without internet access.
April 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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wikimediafoundation.org
Over 7,000 languages are spoken around the globe, and the vast majority of them are oral and never written 🌏

OpenSpeaks Archives, an open and public digital language multimedia archive, focuses on recording these lesser-resourced languages. Learn how ➡️ w.wiki/DKhD
Close up photo of an older woman shaded in blue. Text says: Our community. Open speaks/archives.
March 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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ervinmalakaj.bsky.social
My comrade and drag mom @kyfrack.bsky.social and I are hosting a workshop on queer media theory at the Auerbach Institute of the University of Cologne this summer. Reach out if you are interested in participating. Glad to brainstorm with you. 🌈
Poster with following text against pink and yellow background: CfP: Queer Media Theories Workshop Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies University of Cologne June 26, 2025 This one-day and in-person workshop seeks to bring together scholars working at the intersection of queer studies and media theory. It is inspired by two interrelated dynamics. First, we recognize a resurgent interest to theorize media practice among scholars working in varying disciplinary contexts. Drawing on a robust history of thought about the characteristics of media and their relation to culture, recent scholarship has brought to bear insights about media operations’ relationships to historically and structurally marginalized communities. Second, the last three decades have seen the emergence of extensive lines of inquiry in queer studies grounded in analyses of media. From discussions animated by an interest in global cultural engagement to microhistories of media usage, scholars have charted a rich cultural terrain of queer media practices. Devised as a venue in which participants can continue to think about the intersection between queer studies and media theory, the Queer Media Theories workshop seeks to catalyze existing interests with a focus on theoretically-oriented projects whose themes and methods have thus far been underexplored. There are no geographic, period, or disciplinary limitations for the workshop. The organizers welcome submissions by scholars working at any stage of their career. If you are interested in the project and would like to brainstorm how best you can contribute, reach out to the organizers, who would be glad to help you participate. Limited funds are available to offset some of the cost of participation in the workshop for participants. If you would like to draw on these funds, please indicate your request in the email with as many details as possible. The organizers welcome proposals for 20–30-minute presentations in either English or German related to the workshop theme. The proposal should have a title, an abstract (ca. 250 words), and a bio (ca. 100 words). Please submit this information in an email to both organizers by: March 28, 2025. Acceptance emails will be sent by April 4, 2025. Organizers & Contacts Kyle Frackman (University of British Columbia): kyle.frackman@ubc.ca Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia/Erich Auerbach Institute): ervin.malakaj@ubc.ca Sponsorship The Erich Auerbach Institute of the University of Cologne The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
February 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
timmoritz.bsky.social
Happy to announce the open-access volume "Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse", edited by Stephan Habscheid, @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social, David Waldecker and myself. You can download it here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Cover of the book "Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse" (Stephan Habscheid, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, David Waldecker, eds.), dark blue theme, white letters, blue-filtered picture of a voice assistant and a smartphone.
January 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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briandue.bsky.social
Humans are increasingly assembling with sensory AI technology. People with impairments may benefit significantly from this development. I am seeking a postdoc researcher to join me and Barry Brown. It will explore the intersection of digital and human senses.
jobportal.ku.dk/alle-opslag/...
Postdoctoral position in communication research at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
jobportal.ku.dk
December 13, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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kattascha.bsky.social
An der Uni Duisburg-Essen gibt es gerade ein spannendes Forschungsprojekt zum Thema „Misogynie in Chat-Kommunikation" - es werden anonymisierte Einsendungen gesucht. / via @maximiliankrug.bsky.social www.uni-due.de/kowi/mukom/m...
Forschungsprojekt "Misogynie in Chat-Kommunikation"
Misogynie in Chat-Kommunikation
www.uni-due.de
December 12, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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sfb1472.uni-siegen.de
Good News! 🍾

Die DFG hat der Verlängerung des SFB 1472 „Transformationen des Populären“ zugestimmt 🥂

In der zweiten Förderperiode werden wir die soziale, kulturelle und politi­sche Proble­matik der Vertei­lung von Beach­tung in den Fokus nehmen.

Hier das Statement von @nielswerber.bsky.social
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Zweite Förderperiode (2025–2028) bewilligt - SFB 1472 „Transformationen des Populären“
sfb1472.uni-siegen.de
November 25, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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theresaheyd.bsky.social
Gelegentlich braucht es doch mal gute Nachrichten: die DFG fördert in den kommenden Jahren das Netzwerk Queerlinguistik (Sprecher*innen: Miriam Lind und Lars Vorberger). Frischer Wind für die deutsche Linguistik und wir freuen uns sehr, in Heidelberg mit dabei zu sein! 🎉
November 5, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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konstanzemarx.bsky.social
#jobs #medienlinguistik #Phd im wunderschönen Innsbruck beim großartigen @dpfu.bsky.social

#BLinguistik
Universitätsassistent:in - Dissertationsstelle
Chiffre PHIL-KULT-14598
lfuonline.uibk.ac.at
October 29, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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nielswerber.bsky.social
Der Herbst bleibt spannend in Siegen. Nach der instruktiven und herausfordernden Jahrestagung des @sfb1472.uni-siegen.de folgt unsere Tagung zum "Reiz des Populären", die Thomas Hecken gebührend feiern wird. Die Gästeliste ist klasse, keine Türsteher.

sfb1472.uni-siegen.de/veranstaltun...
Programm der Festtagung "Reiz des Populären"
October 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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uebercringe.bsky.social
now on LinguistList: call for papers,
Ueber Cringe:
Ambivalent Affects and Everyday Aesthetics,
Heidelberg University,
July 7 – July 9, 2025
LINGUIST List 35.2783 Calls: UEBER CRINGE. Ambivalent Affects and Everyday Aesthetics
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
linguistlist.org
October 10, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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enriya.bsky.social
Super happy to have been part in the organising of this years program for the CRC's lecture series "Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance". Come and pay us a visit, if you're interested in any of the talks and discussions. :)
October 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
Grammar is not the “rules” you were taught in school. It’s what your brain does to make sense of the linguistic input it’s exposed to.

The “rules” you were taught are a hidden curriculum designed to maintain a social hierarchy. Before you learned them, you were already an expert at your language.
encephalophagy.bsky.social Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · Oct 14
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

I'll start: Amazon makes more money out of their Cloud services than out of their e-commerce platform.
September 5, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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theresaheyd.bsky.social
interesting pronoun thing I learned yesterday: in Fascist Italy, one goal of purist language policy was the abolition of lei, the 3rd person singular feminine, as a polite 2nd person plural form. Lei was ideologically positioned as a foreign and feminizing threat to national identity.
historical signage with the Italian flag, it says: ley (crossed out), si usi tu e voi
July 24, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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stephanpackard.bsky.social
Bitte teilen, bitte bewerben: Noch 1 WissMit (100% E13 unbefristet, 8 SWS) in Medien-/Theaterwissenschaft. Schwerpunkt 'Intersektionalität' oder 'AV'. #mediastudies #IchBinHanna https://jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibung/renderFile/1738?propertyName=flyer
June 17, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
Job Alert: Du interessierst Dich für generative KI und synthetische Medien, bringst gestalterische Expertise mit und hast Lust auf die bild- und medienwissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit digitalen Kulturen und Künsten? Dann würde ich mich sehr über Deine Bewerbung freuen!
Künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Assistenz, 70%
Die Brückenprofessur widmet sich schwerpunktmäßig den vernetzten Bildkulturen der Gegenwart. Für die Mitarbeit am Aufbau dieses interdisziplinären, institutionsübergreifenden Forschungs- und Lehrgebie...
apply.refline.ch
May 22, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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stephanpackard.bsky.social
Bitte teilen, bitte bewerben: WiMi am Institut für Medienkultur und Theater in Köln, E13 unbefristet, 8 SWS, Schwerpunkt 'Mediale Kontrolle'. Wir unterstützen den Kodex für gute Arbeit der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft. #mediastudies #ichbinhanna

jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
April 27, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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hiphilangsci.bsky.social
Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) would have turned 86 #OTD 🎉

If you’re interested in the role she played in the history of conversation analysis it, our episode 37 has you covered!

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2024/02/29/p...

#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics
A photo of Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) An article by Gail Jefferson from the year 1986 with the title "An excercie in the transcription and analysis of laughter"
April 22, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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lilliiliev.bsky.social
Staat und Verwaltung sollen ihren Datenschatz wiederverwendbar veröffentlichen. Dennoch halten sich Vorbehalte gegen den Einsatz von CC-Lizenzen
Ein von @wikimediade.bsky.social beauftragtes Gutachten zeigt: Die Öffentliche Hand darf und sollte CC-Lizenzen nutzen!
blog.wikimedia.de/2024/04/04/r...
Gutachten zeigt: Öffentliche Hand darf und sollte CC-Lizenzen nutzen - Wikimedia Deutschland Blog
Damit Open Data von öffentlichen Stellen und aus verschiedenen Ländern gemeinsam genutzt und wiederverwendet werden können, müssen sie unter weltweit anerkannten Standardlizenzen veröffentlicht werden...
blog.wikimedia.de
April 6, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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theresaheyd.bsky.social
Ich empfehle zum Einstieg Sebba (2007), Spelling and Society. Es gibt breit aufgefächerte linguistische Forschung zu Orthographie als sozialer Praxis und insbesondere zu den Zusammenhängen zwischen normierten Schreibweisen und ihrer historischen Verbindung zu Sprachideologie und Präskriptivismus.
March 22, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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theresaheyd.bsky.social
Schwer erträglich die launigen Social Media-Reaktionen auf die bayrische Sprachpolitik. Es ist plan- und gewaltvoll, es ist transfeindlich und misogyn, es kommt aus der Mitte und diese Regelungen sind erst der Anfang, wie Disziplinen wie die Gender Studies und die Soziolinguistik seit Jahren warnen.
PPT-Folie: Zeitschiene mit sprachpolitischen Verbotsakten in deutschen Bundesländern As a fascist trend, the anti-gender movement supports ever strengthening forms of authoritarianism. Its tactics encourage state powers to intervene in university programs, to censor art and television programming, to forbid trans people their legal rights, to ban LGBTQI people from public spaces, to undermine reproductive freedom and the struggle against violence directed at women, children, and LGBTQI people. (…) Let’s all get truly critical now, for this is no time for any of the targets of this movement to be turning against one another. The time for anti-fascist solidarity is now. Judith Butler, 23. Oktober 2021
March 21, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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netzpolitik.org
Markus Beckedahl verlässt Netzpolitik.org, zwei Jahre nach der Übergabe an das neue Chefredaktionsteam. Er wird sich in Zukunft anderen Aufgaben widmen. Zeit für einen Rückblick auf bewegte Jahre - und ein großes Dankeschön!

netzpolitik.org/2024/abschie...
Abschied: Danke, Markus!
Markus Beckedahl verlässt netzpolitik.org, zwei Jahre nach der Übergabe an das neue Chefredaktionsteam. Er wird sich in Zukunft anderen Aufgaben widmen. Zeit für einen Rückblick auf bewegte Jahre.
netzpolitik.org
March 14, 2024 at 6:43 AM