Detta var välskrivet och väl sammanfattat av @johannesklenell.bsky.social: www.dn.se/kultur/johan...

We seek a new PhD student to join our research group, studying how digital technologies – social media and AI – affect political communication, mobilisation and power. The position is within the @digsum.bsky.social research centre at Umeå University. Deadline July 21 --> www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Out now: 3rd Edition of Digital Media & Society! A privilege to revisit and update it over the years. New in this edition: • Non-progressive digital activism (radicalization, hate) • Post-pandemic/post-truth media, disinfo & propaganda • Generative AI, LLMs, deepfakes • Expanded learning features

The différance is strong with this one #AcademicSky

Wow! Thank you so much for the super kind words! Glad you like it!

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We draw from & build on pioneering research by @snurb.info @jeanburgess.bsky.social @ryangallagher.bsky.social @paologerbaudo.bsky.social @emilianotrere.com @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @sjjphd.bsky.social @foucaultwelles.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social @simonlindgren.bsky.social and many others 👇🏽

Very excited about the (Un)stable Diffusions @jdsr.bsky.social special issue by Fenwick McKelvey, Joanna Redden, Jonathan Roberge & @lukestark.bsky.social questioning how Critical AI Studies can attend to publics, publicities, and publicizations of #generativeAI: publicera.kb.se/jdsr/issue/v...

The 3rd edition of Digital Media & Society will be out in May, updated and revised throughout and with new bits about data, (gen)AI, synthetic media, and more. Lovely cover art by franciskenney.net

Glad you like it! 😎

Updated Keywords for Media, Culture & Information textaural.com/keywords/ with Resistance Stefania Milan; Programmable politics @simonlindgren.bsky.social en.bsky.social @annekaun.bsky.social sky.social; Convenience @msteinbrg.bsky.social brg.bsky.social @joshua-neves.bsky.social eves.bsky.social

The Swedish #AI roadmap risks forgetting about the critical role of social sciences and humanities research

Check out our paper on how we now live in an age of Programmable Politics #programmablepolitics @annekaun.bsky.social

Me and @annekaun.bsky.social have published a piece introducing the notion of "Programmable Politics" as an emerging keyword that highlights the impact of platform architectures, algorithms, AI, and non-human agency on the political landscape 🤖 doi.org/10.1177/0163...

Cool to see my notion of ”bias bias” turn up in this article on AI and stochastic remembering @riksmit.bsky.social @socmerrill.bsky.social

Okay wow this is an *excellent* new paper on distributed agency, stochastic remembering, and human-LLM assemblages brill.com/view/journal... Ft. @emilymbender.bsky.social, Latour, STS, mnemotechnology, and more Also has an excellent description of training, RLHF & human-machine feedback loops

Hollywood ditching X www.reddit.com/r/entertainm...

News media leaving X www.reddit.com/r/technology...

Something is happening here on BlueSky. When the madman bought Twitter, I left immediately and set up Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. Activity has been moderate but now exploding post-election. Hopeful.

Guys, get the fuck off Twitter.

In this new article, Agnes Liminga and I explored data activism discourses revealing two distinct strands: social justice advocates vs. established elites. This division raises questions about who is truly driving the data justice agenda https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241266416

The first day of our symposium on digital research methods, mess, myths, and madness is underway! We are enjoying cozy workshops and thought-provoking talks #digitalmethods

Our new article shows that Critical AI Studies address race and gender more than class and capitalism. It stresses the need for integrating political economy critiques into AI research for a fuller understanding of its socio-economic, ecological, and political effects.

Don’t miss this postdoc opportunity with us at @digsum.bsky.social

Great opportunity to join a cool research group and our project on digital propaganda! PhD in sociology or equiv. and an interest in combining computional methods and critical interpretive approaches wanted!

Published today: @socmerrill.bsky.social's, Mattias Gardell's and my article on how 'the left' meme, focusing on the intriguing realm of r/DankLeft. We have analysed ~400 memes to uncover the themes, the role of taboo, and the emotional responses they provoke doi.org/10.1177/1461...

We are looking for a postdoc for our research group in digital sociology within DIGSUM. The research is about how false information is created and spread across digital platforms, and how it can affect public opinion and undermine democracy. Spread the word! www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...

Hello BS:ers! We are the Journal of Digital Social Research, recently migrated from the total shitshow formerly known as twitter. Our journal is part of @digsum.bsky.social and is now in its 6th year. Check us out at jdsr.io

This came in the mail today! Mine and @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social’s new book. Developing and adapting these methods has been a learning journey. We are crazy excited about having had the opportunity to package it all in a fun book for undergrads and upward! 🐶📊🔍

Does anyone teach a course where mine and @simonlindgren.bsky.social's new book would be a suitable course text so that our publisher can send you an inspection copy? Let us know!

Great! Hope you like it!

🤖 Recently out: the (massive!) Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence edited by @simonlindgren.bsky.social. also including our chapter on the datafication of emotions, which takes a critical look to sentiment analysis and its applications like hate speech detection.

Twitter is putting hateful conduct labels on for cis hate but not trans hate

At the beginning of my datascience journey (~2011) a developer helped me code a rudimentary but quite powerful app for mixed-methods network text analysis. I have now rebuilt Textometrica from scratch in #Python #Streamlit github.com/simonlindgre... Enjoy!

Snatched myself a copy of @simonlindgren.bsky.social's latest book this morning. Looking forward to read this!

"TikTok´s Research API falls woefully short" My colleagues Santiago, Martin & @altreflexion.bsky.social compared TikTok´s research API with data they were able to scrape. More details: tiktok-audit.com/blog/2023/th...

"Critical Theory of AI" now exists in the world.

This is cool

Happy to announce the publication of my new book "Critical Theory of AI" with Polity Press. In this thread, I share the takeaway points from its first chapter ('AI and critical theory'). 1. Technologies are political. AI is no exception.