The first official data on the effectiveness of Australia's social media ban is out. Nothing unexpected, but it's worth reading. www.esafety.gov.au/research/soc...
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Andrew Przybylski
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"Despite the intent of the Social Media Minimum Age Act 2024 to delay access to social media platforms and reduce the potential for online harms, little evidence was found of immediate substantive reductions in reported social media use by adolescents under 16 years." www.bmj.com/content/393/...
Assessing early effects of Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act on adolescents’ social media use: observational studyObjectives To examine the early effect of a world first national policy (Social Media Minimum Age Act 2024, which established a national minimum age of 16 years for holding accounts on designated soci...www.bmj.comI am delighted to welcome a new colleague, @andreucasas.bsky.social to our @oii.ox.ac.uk community. ✨
Oxford Internet InstituteWe look forward to welcoming Dr Andreu Casas, incoming Associate Professor of Politics, Technology, and Computational Social Science at the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Oxford Internet Institute, to Oxford this September.
My concern are the implications for participants' informed consent. I cannot in good conscience tell them how their open data might be (mis)used now. Firms hoover up IP from obscenely resourced publishers with impunity... What good can be done with a thoughtful CCby license?
Miri ForbesAre we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...