Funnily enough, our #Assetization book is in the #AnthropicAI settlement list - go look yourself up too! cc/ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

The political economy of #generativeAI just doesn't make

This looks like an interesting new paper on #assetization in #videogames || www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Learn lots from New Labour and also don’t let any of them (with a few exceptions) anywhere near the levers of power remains sound advice.

*new article* We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎 'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/fas....

Seem to be a lot of #AIbubble stories out right now - another one || www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A longish thread to announce that the Themed Issue "Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?" is now fully available online "https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-pns/pns-1-digital_platform_economies_value_from_data/pns

The joy of having a decent home printer! I can actually read things again on paper!

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

How can we close the data gaps & ensure digital trade works for everyone? ▶️ Live from Geneva at the #WTOPublicForum! 📅 18 Sept 2025 | 10:45–12:00 CEST 🎙 Fireside chat: UNCTAD’s Pedro Manuel Moreno & WTO’s Johanna Hill 💬 Interactive panel with experts & policymakers 🔴 Watch live: ow.ly/130w50WY0YR

Correct Judge Mehta didn't order Google breakup last week but late Friday night we saw DOJ is full speed ahead in its other remedies trial in 16 days and posted its PFJ (Proposed Final Remedies) now 60+ pages of brilliant detail. Let me walk you through key terms. /1

‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

I'm quoted in Financial Post article abt recent remedies in US antitrust case agn #Google. Remedies = zero impact. I also think judge's claims abt #generativeAI upending online search is wrong; reverse is true b/c keeps more traffic in ecosystem. #BigTech win financialpost.com/technology/g...

David Dayen on the #Google remedy ruling this week: no end to #bigtech #monopoly || prospect.org/justice/2025...

At what point does it make sense for us to start boycotting doing research on #artificialintelligence?

#TechPower at work - no consequences for #Google despite finding of illegal monopolization

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Anyone know of any research on the concept of "technology neutrality"? (primarily in reference to policy or governance mechanisms - ie these mechanisms should be neutral wft technologies)

My new article "Do artifacts have political economy" out in @sthv.bsky.social - developing a constructivist #politicaleconomy as a way to understand the embedding of political economy in #technology (incl bridges, #generativeAI + #adtech)

Maybe one good thing about all the #artificialintelligence hype is that the boosters are ever-so-positive that as it all goes belly up (quickly or slowly), their credibility will be shot (fingers crossed!)

Another brilliant piece by @keanbirch.bsky.social

🥳 New book: "Artificial Intelligence in Biobanking. Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges", edited by Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Santa Slokenberga and Signe Mežinska, published by #Routgers 👋 Preorder the book here: buff.ly/mRhbikH 🔗 Read it #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/gyxKvgO 🧵 1/4

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SEC Chair: "innovators & visionaries will be able to immediately enter the market with new technologies & business models but will not be required to comply with incompatible or burdensome prescriptive regulatory requirements that hinder productive economic activity" www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...

"Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam" published in EASST Review by Sarah Rose Bieszczad & Pouya Sepehr (w/ contributions from myself & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner) #STS #EASST easst.net/easst-review...

Hi friends 👋 My new paper argues that datafication reproduces market-solutionist modes of governance. I draw parallels between new data policies in the US healthcare industry - and the governance of climate change through markets + data. Check it out, #datagovernance nerds!

Beautiful ... "beyond the university"

University as brand ... [sigh]

NEW ARTICLE! Our latest piece "Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems" addresses the collective dimension of relevance in research communities on social-environmental problems. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

I think the premise of a book I want to write is that too many policymakers (+ journalists, academics, etc) look at the 🇺🇸 all starry eyed and end up confusing power with innovation

Do #billionaires become idiots?

“Racists furious at anti-racist policies, threaten to destroy nation.”

The thing to take from this chart is this: by 2027, even after the massive, epoch-defining Trump cuts to higher education and some very bad news coming out of certain states are factored in, the US will still have seen more growth in public higher education spending than Canada in the post-2011 era.

Now with gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/86f19a2...

New #CfP for a Special Issue from @sciasculture.bsky.social: "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions" edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold & Gisle Solbu #sustainability #STS #lowcarbon #transitions #cocreation think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

#Blair doing his bit for the world ... as usual

I have a new opinion piece out in the @thestar.com today: "Killing the digital services tax is a step backwards" (paywalled) - #Google extracts $b worth of #DataAssets from Canada each year, but #Canada gets nothing #tariff #Trump #Carney #TACO #digitalservicestax www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I have a new opinion piece out in the @thestar.com today: "Killing the digital services tax is a step backwards" (paywalled) - #Google extracts $b worth of #DataAssets from Canada each year, but #Canada gets nothing #tariff #Trump #Carney #TACO #digitalservicestax www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The biggest existential threat to humanity is not #artificialintelligence, it's #billionaires

@metaror.bsky.social is a scholar-controlled peer review service for metascience research. Check us out! Metaror.org #metascience2025 (I am an associate editor at MetaRoR) @ludowaltman.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social

OnlineFirst - "Properties of air: Wind resourcification via assetization in the republic of Ireland" by Robert Wade: #windresources #resourcification #assetization #propertyrights #politicalecology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Some news: In 2026-27, I'll be visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, leading the theme seminar on ‘𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺‘ There's no place quite like the IAS to think, together, about big questions. Please share—applications are open 𝚗̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚠̲.

I've always thought that the biggest #strandedassets in a financial #climatecrisis will be suburban #housing - "climate change and the fight against it could wipe out 9% of the value of the world’s housing by 2050—which amounts to $25 [trillion]." (US senate report) www.ft.com/content/9e5d...

#Uber's dynamic pricing: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Excited to share that my article on land valuation in England and Germany is now out in Environment and Planning A (@economyandspace.bsky.social)! Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #land #valuation #financialization #urbanstudies #assetization #econsoc #marketstudies

A reminder that the deadline for the Special Forum on "Tech Oligarchy" is fast approaching (end of July 2025). Make sure to contact the editor @keanbirch.bsky.social with abstract proposals and queries for suitability!!!

I did an interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Network about my new-ish book "Data Enclaves" from Palgrave Macmillan. #assetization #data #datagovernance #dataasset #bigtech newbooksnetwork.com/data-enclaves

I wonder how much other #university bosses everywhere will learn from this? 🤔

Has anyone tried calculating the social damage of #innovation? Eg mental health costs of social media