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on has been paid to ai as a code generating tool and to the technical skills involved in building ai models impacts of ai features on overall engineering workflow is relatively less explored all computing students should have an awareness of these process impacts regardless of their specialties and goals we propose to develop and evaluate two interventions a no code hands on simulation of evaluating and fine tuning a model and a series of enhancements and extensions for learning modules focused on different stages of a development project we propose to develop a preliminary version of these interventions then to evaluate and refine them through a series of co design workshops and finally to publish our results posted on may 20 2026 may 20 2026 fossy 2026 call for proposals the free and open source software yearly conference fossy is back for the fourth year in a row and we ll be running the science of community track inspired by the cdsc science of community dialogues bringing together practitioners and researchers to talk about scholarly work that s relevant to the efforts of practitioners does your work touch open source communities technology or cooperation do you want to help bridge the gaps between research and practice join our track the call for proposals is open and we re looking for presenters interested in speaking to foss practitioners developers community organizers contributors and people into and curious about foss as researchers we benefit so much from the communities we work with and study and we want them to also learn from the research they so generously take part in while the dialogues cover a broad range of topics and communities fossy presentations will focus on how that work relates to free and open source software communities projects and practitioners fossy is a low stress opportunity to talk to people who your work can benefit for topics consider presenting implications from past papers synthesizing work from your field overall or floating ideas and problems lightning talks long talks short talks a full track description and answers to common questions is available on our wiki the cfp deadline is may 22nd and uses this form we can t wait for you to join us posted on may 19 2026 may 28 2026 political discussion in non political online communities is more likely to see policy opinion expression it seems natural to think that online political discussion happens in political spaces comment sections under news articles campaign pages partisan forums or video sharing communities built around elections and public affairs but anyone who spends time online knows that politics does not stay neatly contained in those spaces it shows up in local forums hobby groups gaming communities entertainment discussions and personal social media feeds a conversation that begins with everyday life can suddenly become a debate about policy rights or government communication scholars call this incidental political discussion political talk that emerges in spaces not primarily organized around politics i was interested in a simple question what happens when people talk about politics in non political online communities a common expectation in political communication research is that these conversations might be less polarized and more civil than political talk in explicitly political spaces the logic goes in non political communities people may not arrive with partisan identities already activated they may also be guided by community norms built around shared interests local concerns or social connection rather than political conflict we wanted to test whether political talk in non political spaces was actually less polarized and perhaps less uncivil in real world digital communities to do so i led an effort with the support of benjamin mako hill and patricia moy to examine reddit discussions about mass shootings and gun control in october 2017 sampling over 100 000 comments on gun control issues across the platform that month we compared comments from 15 explicitly political communities with those from 15 non political communities including culture location and game based ones among others the results surprised us as the figure below from our study shows policy opinion expression was on average more common in non political communities than in political ones several non political subreddits including r wisconsin r christianity r videos and r funny had especially high levels of policy opinion expression in total 10 non political subreddits had policy opinions in more than half of the sampled comments by contrast only three political subreddits r progun r shitguncontrollerssay and r political_revolution crossed the same 50 threshold this pattern suggests that policy talk is not confined to explicitly political spaces in some cases it appears even more frequently in communities organized around local life religion entertainment or humor after accounting for a range of factors in our regression model we found that comments in non political communities were more likely to contain a clear policy opinion than comments in explicitly political communities the model estimated that the predicted probability of expressing a clear policy position was about 34 in political communities compared with 51 in non political communities this difference was statistically significant at the same time we found no significant difference in incivility between political and non political communities this combination of findings was especially interesting and contrasts with what s most commonly reported in the current social science literature on digital political communication one possible explanation is that participants in explicitly political communities are often immersed in ongoing political debate their comments may include detailed argumentation interpretation irony criticism of political actors or discussion of the news cycle without always stating a clear policy position by contrast when a major political issue enters a non political community participants may be more likely to be newly exposed to it and react by saying what they think should be done another explanation for incivility is that reddit s community based moderation matters many communities political and non political alike rely on rules moderators and shared expectations that can limit openly uncivil behavior this helps explain why we did not find a significant difference in incivility both types of communities show a low level of uncivil comments around 6 of the sample the broader lesson is that political communication does not only happen where politics is expected it also happens in the ordinary spaces of digital life where people gather to talk about games cities hobbies entertainment or shared interests if we want to understand democracy online we need to pay attention not only to where people go to talk about politics but also to where politics shows up uninvited this work was published in new media society fan y hill b m moy p 2026 unintended politics opinion expression and incivility in incidental political discussion new media society the work began as my master s thesis at the university of washington thanks to the committee benjamin mako hill patricia moy and yuan hsiao posted on may 7 2026 performing the news rhetoric trust and the fight against video disinformation in india apart from being generally chronically online on political x bluesky tiktok instagram i also study science disinformation for a living which means i spend a lot of time reading things that aren t true more specifically i spend time reading the corrections the careful methodical often thankless articles that community media organizations publish after a manipulated video has already been seen by millions i am currently working on a paper examining exactly this structurally how the indian news organization altnews debunks video disinformation in india and what the rhetorical structure of that work reveals about the challenge of fighting falsehoods at scale india is according to the world economic forum the country most susceptible to large scale disinformation in the world with 750 million internet users 22 constitutionally recognized languages a whatsapp dominated information ecosystem that is largely invisible to automated detection systems and a political environment in which viral video disinformation is regularly amplified by mainstream media fringe actors and national political parties in this context the question of how fact checkers write not just what they correct but how they construct their corrections and the knowledge ecosystems they engage with warrants deeper examination the cognitive trap that makes video disinformation so effective seeing is believing is a popular folk saying it describes a genuine and well documented cognitive bias in that visual evidence carries a persuasive weight that text cannot replicate my paper draws on fazio et al s 2015 finding that knowledge does not reliably protect against illusory truth that even informed attentive readers can be swayed by false information that looks credible video disinformation exploits this bias with particular efficiency because the clip itself functions as apparent evidence you don t need a caption to believe what you watched but there is a second less obvious problem as institutional trust erodes and the awareness of manipulation grows audiences become susceptible not only to false videos but to disbelieving real ones the disinformation ecosystem at its most corrosive inserts falsehoods and destabilizes the category of visual truth the anatomy of a debunk my analysis of 150 altnews video debunking articles reveals a consistent rhetorical structure that departs from the conventions of mainstream journalism where standard news follows an inverted pyramid placing most important information first and subsequent information in decreasing order of priority debunking articles are circular the headline announces a verdict the final line confirms it but this time as a logical conclusion earned through evidence the piece begins and ends with the same claim but the reader arrives at the ending differently than they arrived at the beginning debunking arguments do not show their target beliefs to be false but rather undermine the justification a subject may have for holding them hanno sauer 2018 altnews is not simply telling readers that a video is fake it is systematically dismantling the reasons a reader might have believed it such as the political authority of the person who shared it the apparent plausibility of its imagery or the emotional register in which it circulated particularly relevant to covid 19 scientific misinformation each article acknowledges in some way the overwhelming scale of the disinformation like by alluding to its virality and also the fear and confusion in the social circumstances surrounding the disinformation the correction is not a verdict delivered from above it is an argument the reader is invited to construct alongside the fact checker building collective capacity to discern the lead paragraph of each article enacts this invitation with notable rhetorical precision it uses passive voice and hedged language a video in which a woman is seen lying in the bushes is doing the rounds on social media the word seen does careful work it acknowledges what the reader has probably watched validates their experience but withholds editorial endorsement of the content according to rhetoric scholar kenneth burke this is an act of identification establishing consubstantiality with the audience before introducing dissonance this identification a recognition of the reader s circumstance allows the reader to be persuaded in the direction of the truth which is stated once at first in the headline and repeated at the end the pedagogical burden of video verification what distinguishes video fact checking from other forms of debunking is the technical weight it carries to verify a manipulated clip altnews staff extract keyframes run reverse image searches conduct metadata forensics and deploy ai detection tools each of these methods must then be explained plainly with screenshots with links to original sources to a general readership the articles are in this sense simultaneously corrections and tutorials by modeling the process of finding out altnews both corrects the misinformation and provides technical clarity in how information is produced and distributed attempting to build readers skill in verifying images and videos out there this show your work norm is a deliberate strategy for building what dourish and bellotti 1992 call awareness through establishing the sense that one understands not just an outcome but the process that produced it for debunking transparency about method is the mechanism by which readers are gradually equipped to verify things themselves why human centered collaboration is the only viable response altnews s staff of journalists scientists engineers osint specialists social activists and people working on intersections of those roles function as a distributed multidisciplinary verification network india s disinformation ecosystem is as starbird arif and wilson 2019 demonstrate fundamentally collaborative coordinated networks of accounts platforms and political organizations working in concert to amplify false narratives automated platform moderation such as the content bots of facebook and x has proven structurally inadequate to this complexity particularly given india s linguistic diversity and the closed architecture of whatsapp groups what is needed and what altnews partially models is a collaboratively informed approach human centered context specific and built for heterogeneity rather than scale the fact that this work runs on donations in a country where disinformation reaches hundreds of millions tells us something important about where the gaps in our collective response still lie posted on april 18 2026 april 18 2026 troubleshooting in computational research design report from a workshop series visualization of the messy process that turns into the polished paper image generated by claude ai this winter quarter a small group of cdsc students at the university of washington participated in a series of workshops on troubleshooting in computational research design the workshops were organized by yibin fan research articles typically present a streamlined account of research design how should a concept be operationalized what counts as valid data the process of producing those designs often involves a series of complex decisions that are rarely documented in detail to address this gap this workshop focused on the troubleshooting process that is central to computational communication research but is often omitted from published work how did the authors arrive at particular methodological decisions what challenges arose at different stages of the research design how did they navigate the tra...