David Elliot Berman @_DavidBerman
Assistant Professor @SetonHall. Former: @AnnenbergPenn @MIC_Center. Platforms, policy, political economy. New Jersey, USA Joined October 2012-
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It’s a loss for humanity as a whole that we are losing cultural critics with keen eyes and sharp wits, then getting nothing in return but AI slop and influencers who ask Pedro Pascal what it’s like to be the Internet’s daddy
Every day an ostensibly serious person describes how they use ChatGPT—to write pretty passages, to rattle off fun hallucinated historical slop to them in the car—and it really is as though they’ve voluntarily hung a big, public sign around their neck that says: “I’m illiterate.”
Every day an ostensibly serious person describes how they use ChatGPT—to write pretty passages, to rattle off fun hallucinated historical slop to them in the car—and it really is as though they’ve voluntarily hung a big, public sign around their neck that says: “I’m illiterate.”
Thrilled that my article “On Optimization: Cultural Labor in Platform Capitalism” has just been published in New Media & Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…
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Excited to announce our Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute's $1.2M award to partner with the City of Philadelphia to evaluate and support their NTIA-funded initiative to create a more digitally empowered city. @PSUBellisario @_DavidBerman tiny.cc/bx07001
All that's solid melts into clickbait and hot takes.
All that's solid melts into clickbait and hot takes.
After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized. Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff 404media.co/where-facebook…
Come work with us at the MIC Center! We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher who focuses on the political economy of broadband, digital equity, and the future of local media infrastructures. Please spread the good word! asc.upenn.edu/research/cente…
Raising awareness with my Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute colleagues about a looming legal paradox that's been left to fester, and is now coming to the fore: benton.org/blog/bad-busin… @Ali_Christopher @_DavidBerman @SydneyForde @VWPickard
Excellent piece by @_DavidBerman & @ppopiel in @techpolicypress: techpolicy.press/america-discon…
tldr: if policymakers are serious about ending the digital divide, they need to invest in publicly-owned internet infrastructure. @AnnenbergPenn @MIC_Center
tldr: if policymakers are serious about ending the digital divide, they need to invest in publicly-owned internet infrastructure. @AnnenbergPenn @MIC_Center
New piece with @_DavidBerman in @techpolicypress about how the impending end of the American Connectivity Program calls for a radical rethink of US internet policy. techpolicy.press/america-discon…
Book review for @IJoC_USC: "New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio Project" by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…
Awesome event happening 2/29 5-7pm Antiracist Journalism: Making Philly Media More Equitable Book talk with @andreawenzel Panel discussion w/ @newsjawn @LDeshan @jeannyfr @SandraSWClark asc.upenn.edu/news-events/ev…
We love being able to feature local organizations at Net Inclusion! Thanks so much to the heroes doing the work right here in the Philly community @philly_wireless and all the local NDIA affiliates who hosted us! #NetInclusion24
Announcing the Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute! asc.upenn.edu/news-events/ne…
Introducing the Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute (PBR-I)! So excited for the work ahead and so honored to be working alongside such amazing scholars @VWPickard @saschameinrath @SydneyForde @_DavidBerman! Let's get to work! #broadband asc.upenn.edu/news-events/ne…
A nice write up of our new Pennsylvania Broadband Research (PBR) Institute. Through research and critical analysis, we're hoping to shine a bright light on the absurdities and digital inequities of our broadband services in PA and beyond. asc.upenn.edu/news-events/ne… @MIC_Center

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