Andrew Hoskins
PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY tinyurl.com/2znk9jy7
andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
€2.2M, 5 year project
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- The uncanny of AI memory #pulpband www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a...
- Sharded Media is here 🙃 @williammerrin.bsky.social
- NEW BOOK OUT TODAY!! SHARDED MEDIA Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream @williammerrin.bsky.social Tech bros, Trump and trolls, have not toxified the Mainstream Media... they have replaced it. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- THE REMAKING OF MEMORY IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA Co-edited with the great Qi Wang. OUP Finally published online today, physical copies published first 🙃🙃 academic.oup.com/book/59599
- Long morning chat on my corridor with colleagues. Some have no childhood memories, no association to their child-selves, and have no life #narrative. "Things just happen". Others the opposite. All try to explain their position. Teaching on this today, will find out students' life (non?)stories.
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View full threadOther interesting cog science finding is that (mostly for people over 30) we have a ‘memory bump’ - an incredibly vivid memory of a time/period really formative to our development (usually between 15-25).
- I can remember everything from 1984, but not much before or since!
- I now found two people near the photocopier who have no childhood memories, cannot visualise in their heads (Me: Let's go to Paris this weekend? Them: I cannot "see" Paris in my head, its just a word), and have no inner monologue. Both aged 30 or under. Seems memory is not related to digital?
- Yes weakened memory ‘in the head’, but more easily findable ‘in the wild’. Less need for human memory is one argument.
- But today's generation have a digital record of their childhood, findable, usable, manipulable, mineable. There's virtually no record in the world of just how awful I was as a kid, other than in a few fading human memories of people who knew me then.
- The past that never existed is here. Nice to be cited in Helen Pearson's excellent essay @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Proofs on their way 🙂 @williammerrin.bsky.social "The Mainstream Media couldn’t see or accept that the illicit was already the norm." link.springer.com/book/9783031...
- THE FORGETTING ECOLOGY The past beyond human control. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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- Finally. The realisation that you can't fact check reality. #ShardedMedia @catherinehapper.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- We said something like this in 2009 @benoloughlin.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- What we know from 4 decades of violent extremism research: “No clear profile has ever been found, not just across the ideological spectrum, but even w/in specific grps. That is not a failure of research—that is the *outcome* of it…. If anything, *diversity* is the profile”- @johnhorgan.bsky.social
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- My final day in this office! My job title was a bit long anyway. 13 years at the University of Glasgow. Time to move on. Of course I will miss my friends, but onto Edinburgh in the new year, and other cool people to meet 😊
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- Thank you! Prof of AI, Memory & War 😊
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- Yes! in Sociology. Be nice to meet you in the new year.
- It’s been a great year for memory events!
- This is all memory bump, isn’t it? @catherineloveday.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- I later discovered she was taking photos of me as I paced up and down giving my lecture 🙃
- We have now commissioned 20 amazing papers for our definitive AI & Memory collection. for the gold open access Cambridge Journal of Memory, Mind & Media. We have left our call open to the end of January in case you missed it! tinyurl.com/4tdtx432
- Nice to see Bluesky now showing up in CUP journal altmetrics. tinyurl.com/2ms9y2f4
- The bargain past.
- INFLUENCING MACHINES How does AI encode our perception of the world? Agenda setting as ever from TREVOR PAGLEN @paglen.studio and ANTHONY DOWNEY Open Access in Journal of Digital War link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- After 13 years. My last ever lecture at the University of Glasgow! Edinburgh bound in the new year... Daughter not interested (yet) in media, war & memory 🙃
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- Thanks Charlotte! And thanks back at you for all your energetic support! You have been a great help.
- What’s at the heart of the most documented society in history? Deletion. Erasure. Forgetting. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/t...
- The end of the (deep) human past. I am not sure the term 'SIMULATION AGENTS' quite gets it. www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/20/1...
- ON AI, CAPITALISM & MEMORY Superb intervention by Danny Pilkington In the only GOLD OPEN ACCESS Memory Studies Journal, CUP's MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA doi.org/10.1017/mem....
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- THE FORGETTING ECOLOGY 'The UNREMEMBERED SELF is perpetually open to disruption and discovery, enmeshed in the data we have scattered... but it is also forged by a past made from us that we cannot recognise, an alienation of memory.' In The Remaking of Memory tinyurl.com/2xvz6zu6
- NEW BOOK!! co-edited with the great Qi Wang: THE REMAKING OF MEMORY IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA Just published by OUP in US!! www.amazon.com/Remaking-Mem...
- With our amazing contributors!
- WELCOME TO THE DEADBOT SOCIETY **AI and MEMORY** New Gold Open Access Original Article doi.org/10.1017/mem....
