Dawn Gilpin
drgilpin.bsky.social
Dawn Gilpin
@drgilpin.bsky.social

Associate dean for research & PhD director at ASU's Cronkite School. I study complex mediated social systems, from organizations to (sub)cultures. Also: semipro cat herder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert, perfume aficionado, and shoe lover. She/her .. more

Business 63%
Communication & Media Studies 22%

I kind of love that the day began with a magical solution for turning crappiness into happiness. It set just the right tone going into the weekend. ✨🌵🪨 #opalite

RIP to an absolute legend.
❤️

It's a strange world, that one.

Quote with 5 jobs you've had

1. Chocolatier shopgirl
2. Men's accessories sales
3. Packaging machinery customer service
4. Door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales
5. Technical translator and interpreter (Italian-English)
Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had:

1. Lifeguard
2. Cashier
3. Store Manager
4. Customer Support Manager
5. Product Manager
Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had:

1. preschool teacher
2. theatre technical director
3. sculpture class model (no garments)
4. Congressional lobbyist (nonprofit, domestic violence policy)
5. Hot Topic accessories department lead

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Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had:

1. Lifeguard
2. Cashier
3. Store Manager
4. Customer Support Manager
5. Product Manager
Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had:

1. preschool teacher
2. theatre technical director
3. sculpture class model (no garments)
4. Congressional lobbyist (nonprofit, domestic violence policy)
5. Hot Topic accessories department lead
Quote with 5 jobs you've had:
1. buffet person (Eat'n Park)
2. software engineer
3. title abstractor
4. IT at a teaching hospital
5. IT at a law firm

I love a resort hotel where the bar restroom is both larger and fancier than my entire apartment.

I'm so glad The Pitt is back to take my mind off Heated Rivalry for an hour.

As a Dawn, I approve and co-sign this plan.
My goals for 2026 are simple. I shall be:

1. Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn!

2. Treacherous as the Sea!

3. Stronger than the foundations of the earth!

4. All shall love the new me, and despair!

Reposted by Dawn R. Gilpin

My goals for 2026 are simple. I shall be:

1. Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn!

2. Treacherous as the Sea!

3. Stronger than the foundations of the earth!

4. All shall love the new me, and despair!

Authenticity is kind of the defining floating signifier of the times.

The last line is really the key, I think. Not that people have lost interest in authenticity, but that we're constantly trying to figure out what that means and looks like in these digital environments--not just from AI, but also humans and corporations trying to perform/exploit it.
Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

The Rudy Giuliani of political polling.

Sometimes I still miss the Fail Whale.

Assolutamente! I have to aggiungere italiano à la melange, para completar el cuadro.

I'm a little terrified at how far I got into that before even realizing you were mixing languages...

I used to say that my Dash was a cat made by someone who'd only ever seen giraffes. There's something about gingers...

I asked Chat GPT to give me a Wrapped-style summary of my year. It said my “overall vibe” for 2025 was “Resilient, and extremely tired of being resilient.”

Rude, but accurate.

This is especially hilarious since I mostly use Spotify to listen to random classical music while working. But hey, sure.

I really need to find a home with a coat bath. What a quality of life improvement that would be!
Oh shit waddup
Oh shit waddup
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk

I like it. But S6 is also my favorite season of BtVS, so... 🤷🏻‍♀️

After years of studying disinfo and wading around in various online toxic waste zones, nothing has made me despair more about the current state of media literacy than the discourse surrounding this album release.
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

It's Infrastructure Week all over again.

Happy birthday!

Yes! There is a different calculus for distance during the warmer seasons here...

Icon behavior, frankly.