bigdatasoc.bsky.social
Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
👤 Joined on 05 October 2023
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@bigdatasoc.bsky.socialDo large language models democratize public participation in the regulatory process, or exacerbate existing gaps? In a new article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social, Sarah Kreps and I use two survey experiments to explore the democratic opportunities and risks of LLMs: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Show PostThis paper is now out in Artificial Intelligence Review Bottom line: using LLMs to "simulate humans" sits in a no-man’s-land between theory and empirics—too opaque to function as a model, too ungrounded to count as evidence. Validation remains the core challenge. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Show Post"Digital governance functions more as a symbolic performance of administrative achievement than as a tool for effective governance"
Show PostIt's also a sort of running technical appendix to my work on the continuity between LLMs and cybernetics, such as this article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mika...
Show PostThrilled to have a new article published in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! 🥳🎉📊 With scraping becoming a more common data collection strategy for internet researchers, we cover the legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific ramifications researchers should consider. doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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