Robert W. Gehl @robertwgehl@scholar.social
- Social Engineering
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering
- FOSS Academic
- https://fossacademic.tech
He/Him/His
I'm the F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech U.
My research is on the relationship between communication technologies and culture. I've written some books in this vein:
Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple)
Weaving the Dark Web (MIT)
My latest book is Social Engineering (MIT, 2022). This book takes up hacker social engineering practice to conceptualize manipulative communication happening online.
www.robertwgehl.org
Joined Jan 2018
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I think I will make it my personal mission to only cite things that are imported into Zotero perfectly the first time. Wanna be cited? Get your metadata right!
I'm thinking of installing a XMPP client again. I don't really have any reason why, just to do it again.
Can anyone recommend a good jabber/XMPP provider? I want to avoid being "username@shadyawfulhost.net"
why does my dog wander the house eating weird stuff she finds?
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facebook mention, conspiracy theories
Earnest question seeking honest answers:
Are there conspiracy theories floating about among Mastodon instances? And if so, are they doing to the degree that they clearly are on Facebook?
boosts appreciated
Just your daily reminder that, if it's too good to be true, it's time to dismantle capitalism
facebook mention, conspiracy theories
Earnest question seeking honest answers:
Are there conspiracy theories floating about among Mastodon instances? And if so, are they doing to the degree that they clearly are on Facebook?
boosts appreciated
I might just lazily re-brand my "overly social" version as the 2010s.
https://www.robertwgehl.org/?styleSheetSelection=social_style
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⚠️REMINDER: Only download Inkscape from trusted sources and be cautious about emails with links, even if they claim to be from the project. If there's any doubt go to the source. The latest, validated release will always be available for free on our website.
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uspol, Trump, obscene wealth
Why aren't Trump-lovers storming the offices of Forbes? Clearly he is richer than the fake news Forbes magazine is reporting. Call up South Dakota -- they find an extra billion dollars to prove Trump is #1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/05/donald-trump-forbes-400-list/
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FB mention
Very grateful to be in a position where I was able to delete my Facebook on principle years ago and suffer virtually no ill effects
I know that not everyone can do that because of the manipulative and shitty world we live in
But if you can, I recommend it
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FB; Banging that drug again
> Facebook’s lucrative ad-driven business derives nearly all of its profit from the pervasive tracking of its users; data which it, in turn, uses to create exhaustive behavior profiles used to “micro-target” ads and measure their effectiveness.
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-facebook-docs-depict-kids-as-untapped-wealth-1847763431
Abolish 👏 targeted 👏 advertising
I have a new publication: "Dark web advertising: the dark magic system on tor hidden service search engines". It's a fun article where I riff on Raymond Williams's classic "advertising: the magic system" article while taking a look at the dubious world of dark web search engine advertising.
It's #openaccess at
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10304312.2021.1983251
hit another website that is absolutely essential and only seems to work in Chrome.
I'm livid.
This is insane.
This is straight out of the late 1990s. There are no more Web standards? Only reliance on one browser from one megacorp?
Didn't we learn anything from the past 30 years?
Registered for #AOIR2021, and they always ask for a Twitter handle. I always oblige by typing in
MASTODON: @robertwgehl
I thought I was bad at in-person conferencing, but I am REALLY BAD at virtual conferencing.
Robert W. Gehl
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Live coverage of #DigitalHumanities webinar
This is starting right now: follow @venicedph@twitter.com and #VeDPH for live coverage
RT @venicedph@twitter.com
In half an hour 'Producing Knowledge in the Virtual Space: Approaching Archaeological Data', our second online seminar, will begins!
Don't miss it!
🔗 more info: https://www.unive.it/data/16437/1/51685
#vedph #digitalhumanities #digitalarcheology #cafoscari
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/venicedph/status/1445759786675421193
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Can anyone recommend me some bibliography about scientism in modern art?
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anyone have any comments or advice on Danish and Swedish working cultures, in academia? differences, salient points? in general...
I think I need a 2010s version of my site. Any suggestions? My immediate thought is to darken everything and put a login window and captcha system on it
added my pseudo-greenscreen image of my book to my website (www.robertwgehl.org, best viewed in Firefox)
- Social Engineering
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering
- FOSS Academic
- https://fossacademic.tech
He/Him/His
I'm the F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech U.
My research is on the relationship between communication technologies and culture. I've written some books in this vein:
Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple)
Weaving the Dark Web (MIT)
My latest book is Social Engineering (MIT, 2022). This book takes up hacker social engineering practice to conceptualize manipulative communication happening online.
www.robertwgehl.org
Joined Jan 2018
