[acc-cca-l] Special Issue online! (un)Stable Diffusions: The Publics, Publicities, and Publicizations of Generative AI.

[Fenwick Mckelvey]

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Hi all,
Jonathan Roberge, Joanna Redden<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/>, Luke Stark<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/> and I are very pleased to announce the publication of our special issue, (un)Stable Diffusions: The Publics, Publicities, and Publicizations of Generative AI.

Open access and online at: https://publicera.kb.se/jdsr/issue/view/3598

The special issue features contributions from Kate M. Miltner, Ph.D<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/>, Etienne Grenier<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/>, Nicolas C.<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/>, Thao Phan<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/>, Alison Powell<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/>, Sun-ha Hong<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/>, Gwendolyn Blue<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/> (on LinkedIn) and Crystal Chokshi, Mél Hogan, Fabian Offert.

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Contributions argue how generative AI is a uniquely public technology. The large language models behind ChatGPT and other tools that generate text and images is a major development in publicity as much as technology. Without public data and public participation, these large models could not be trained. Without the attention, hype, and hope around these technologies, the big AI firms probably could not afford the computational costs to train these models. Our special issue questions how Critical AI Studies can attend to the publics, publicities, and publicizations of generative AI.

We have an excellent experience working with Simon Lindgren<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/> Markus Naarttijärvi<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/>, Emma Östin and the team @JDSR, the journal of Digital Social Research -- a pure open access journal.

I think the special issue gathers an exceptional group of voices to advance research in Critical AI Studies and I encourage you to read their great contributions.


Be good,
Fenwick McKelvey (he/il)

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Co-Director, Applied AI Institute - https://www.concordia.ca/research/applied-ai-institute.html
MA Director, Communication Studies

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