[Petit Fours #406] On classroom rules, AI Cleanup, and the dark side of social media
Hi, all! Here’s what I’ve got for you today, as I launch into a somewhat overly full week of teaching and reviewing:
#1 Generative AI is causing a big mess online. It’s interesting to see the collective efforts that pop up in response, such as WikiProject AI Cleanup: “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.“
#2 Famously, the AI mess extends also to higher education classrooms. I appreciate Amy Bruckman’s report and reflection on her experiences in this blogpost: Evolving College Classroom Rules — Post Pandemic and Generative AI
#3 Here’s a brand new article by Safra A. N. Martinussen and Anna Vallgårda that resonates with my interest in the shared uses of intimate technologies: Delineating a Design Space for Premenstrual Disorders as a Relational Phenomenon. Here’s the abstract: “In this paper, we explore the complex phenomenon of premenstrual disorders (PMDs) and how we can begin to design care technology that can help alleviate the negative experiences of PMDs. We do this by developing a set of design criteria and design openings based on interviews with experts and literature reviews. These are then qualified and challenged by deploying a design probe into the practices of four couples over the course of a menstrual cycle, each ending with a co-design session. The contribution is a delineation of a design space based on this probe study, where we outline the challenges and merits of treating PMDs as a relational phenomenon.“
#4 The biggest perk in my line of work are the many and diverse people I’ve gotten to work with over the years. One of them, Suvi Uski, has just published a non-fiction book on the dark sides of social media (in Finnish). For starters, here’s an interview with Helsingin Sanomat: Somen pimeä puoli
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