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Katy Pearce

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Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.

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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm offering 3 AI workshops for academic parents (although if you're not an academic or a parent, you're welcome to attend too.) Advanced on Aug 15 and 20, "basic" on August 25. www.katypearce.net/ai-empowerme...

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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 4h

I'm reading this piece and WOW! Leveraging ICTs: Central Asian women's agency in the context of bride kidnapping. Also great methods section!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Leveraging ICTs: Central Asian women's agency in the context of bride kidnapping

While technofeminist interventions have contributed to growing efforts to combat violence against women through ICTs, research on how these technologi…

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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 1d

But, regardless, this is extra painful, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social . But thanks for the good reporting (and @404media.co for their investigative work on this obvs.)

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 1d

I've tried to pivot to more 'what can be done' (Policy! Policy! Policy!) than ever before. And I guess I sleep better at night hoping that I'm arming them with a framework that will be useful as things get worse.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 1d

One lecture revision that stands out is my lecture linking informational privacy and reproductive health privacy. That situation gets so much worse every term, I basically have to heap on piles of more recent examples every few months.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 1d

It is so very very fucked up. Also, whenever I've been prepping lectures for teaching this term, I'm taking my lectures from JAN-FEB 2025 and having to revisit them, often having to take things that were theoretically possible and now discuss them as common.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 1d

Or I remember a few years ago when an undergrad told the class that they were in a car accident, and the other side's team found pix of her rock climbing on Instagram and used it against her. And the class was SHOCKED! Now when I use that example, students 🤷🏼 🤷🏾‍♂️ 🤷🏿 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🤷🏽‍♀️

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 1d

Like stuff I used to bring up that was common place back then in my favorite authoritarian regimes, and was SHOCKING to North American/Western Euro audiences is now par for the course in the US.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 1d

This week was too emotional to listen to this. But I knew that I needed to.
If you put me in a time machine, back a decade, when I was actively researching this exact stuff in authoritarian regimes, if I thought I'd be listening to a podcast about this in the USA, I'd be 😕? youtu.be/2HUD9atKkUo?...

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 2d

Do Vancouverites support the Blue Jays more than the Mariners?

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 9d

Another great read. I don't think everyone understands that a lot of the Internet is this QVC like selling. restofworld.org/2025/indones...

Livestream shopping stars face off against trolls, hagglers, and AI rivals

Livestream sellers have built booming careers. Now, bots are threatening to steal their spotlight and their customers.

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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 9d

Super interesting read. restofworld.org/2025/ai-chin...

AI is reshaping childhood in China

Government support and tech companies’ drive for profit fuel a rush to integrate AI tools, from robot tutors to chatbots, in education and caretaking.

restofworld.org

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 11d

Lol. It is more like, we have access to the lottery, but the prices are OUTRAGEOUS. Is it ethical to engage with this evil org? Ugh.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 11d

Getting fifa tickets is extremely unpleasant.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 19d

I heard one song off the trainspotting soundtrack and went on a bender thinking... Did everyone else love this album as much as I did?

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 29d

Basically every high school kid in Seattle walked out to protest down at the central district school office, protesting 2 lunches instead of 1. The district listened and stopped 2 lunches. These kids are so proud and so am I. (Also SPS has a civic engagement excused absence!)

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Sep 10

Omg. BlueSky is methodone for millennial Twitter addicts, said @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on her podcast today.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Sep 6

I was just saying how glad I was that we didn't have smoke problems this August... Now...

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Sep 6

Gross.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Sep 3

Any suggestions for a more recent update that is VERY accessible, that is an umbrella review of studies related to social media and well-being? Basically a 2025 version of this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Again, VERY VERY VERY accessible.

Advancing our understanding of the associations between social media use and well-being

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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yum yum.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great video essay from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on surveillance capitalism - posted in late July 2025, so up-to-date. Students will like this because the framing is "is your phone 'listening' to you?" Looks like this will be a series, which is great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VL1...

Your Phone Isn't Listening, Here's What's Actually Happening

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Aug 27

Apparently Claude likes you too. ;) (when I asked about assigning the podcast episode versus the Atlantic article and how they'd fit into the existing material)

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Aug 26

This must be related to formerly living in Santa Barbara, right?

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Aug 24

We had a crappy crowd. Boo.

Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just a sticker. I ordered a plush derpy in June and it is still back ordered.