Lähde: WORK2025 On behalf of the Organising Committee, I would like to express my warmest gratitude to our excellent plenary speakers, presenters, and attendees. You have made the WORK2025 Conference a rich and memorable success! Already looking forward to WORK2027!

I'm currently participating in the #WORK2025 conference on "Work in the Era of Unruly AI". Three interesting days ahead!

In his plenary Antonio Casilli asks the relevant question of who does the invisible work for AI? Powerful first WORK2025 plenary is chaired by Seppo Poutanen. #WORK2025

Looking forward to present my artwork and research in the context of the #WORK2025 conference today – as part of the stream "Exploring the human in AI worldbuilding" chaired by Minna Ruckenstein, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, and Santeri Räisänen!

@verenafriedrich.bsky.social Dear Verena, it was such a great enrichment to WORK2025 that you had a chance to tell about your impressive artistic work! Your ”pea machine” reminded me of Auger & Loizeau’s projects on so-called critical design.

A very thought-provoking and fascinating keynote speech going on by Steven Vallas. Title: ”Platfrom Capitalism Revisited: The Coming of Algorithmic Society” Chaired by Anne Kovalainen. #WORK2025

The conference has now come to an end. With the closing words Seppo Poutanen, the chair of the conference, thanks everyone who participated. Thank you very much for these three inspiring days full of new insights! #WORK2025

The second day of the conference ended with a dinner at a beautiful venue. Even though the day’s program had ended, the conversation of keynotes and sessions kept flowing. #WORK2025

Only two days until the start of #WORK2025 ! The conference will be held at Arcanum - see below the location of the conference venue.

During the second day of #WORK2025, the audience will hear from another inspiring keynote speaker, Janja Komljenovic! 🕙Thu 21 Aug, 12:15-1:15 PM

On Thursday afternoon, we'll be hearing an intriguing keynote speech by Benjamin Shestakofsky! 🕙Thu 21 Aug, 2:15-3:15 PM

To close the conference with impact, Steven Vallas will deliver the final keynote speech on Friday! 🕙Fri 22 Aug, 10:30-11:30 AM Don't miss the impactful keynote speeches and intriguing streams - now is your last chance to register. Do it here: work2025.fi/registration/

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On the opening day of #WORK2025 we will hear an interesting keynote speech from Antonio Casilli, sparking discussions throughout the conference. 🕙Wed 20 Aug, 10:15-11:15 AM

On Wednesday afternoon, we will hear from Margunn Aanestad! Join us and gain new perspectives on this timely topic. 🕙Wed 20 Aug, 2:15-3:15 PM #WORK2025

Postcard from us to you from #Turku! Here you get to experience both, the vibrant and historical city, and the peaceful archipelago. We'll see you there next month at #WORK2025. Photos: University of Turku

We thank Turku School of Economics Support Foundation for their contribution in the realization of #WORK2025 conference! TSE Support Foundation assists the School's functions and promotes internationality, for example by supporting the organization of international conferences.

Thank you, Liikesivistysrahasto (Foundation for Economic Education), for your valued sponsorship of #WORK2025 conference! FEE supports research in business and economics.

At #WORK2025 we will offer 19 diverse streams, ensuring that each participant will find sessions that are relevant and meaningful. Curious to explore further? Early bird registration closes TODAY - register here: work2025.fi/registration/

The other keynote speaker on Thursday, August 21th, is inspiring @bshestakofsky.bsky.social !‬ Come listen to his presentation in WORK2025 conference and register now at work2025.fi/registration/

The current desperation to show the causal “effects” of AI in education is leading to a rush of studies and meta-analyses that immediately gather public and social media attention despite their significant methodological shortcomings and limitations codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/e...

I’m looking forward to speak at the @work2025fi.bsky.social conference! I’ll be discussing academic labour and HE in the age of digital rentiership.

On Wednesday, August 20th, we will also hear stirring keynote speech from Margunn Aanestad! You can participate to the #WORK2025fi conference online or onsite at the University of Turku. Register now at work2025.fi/registration/

A long read but well worth the time

"I had no idea science could be so bad."

Registration to the WORK2025 conference is open! Early bird registration deadline & deadline for abstract presenters is June 10th. We are excited to see you in August in Turku or online! Register now at work2025.fi/registration/

Schools are flooded with edtech. But it's not only sold to them. Emerging "edtech brokers" do intermediary work to build teachers' trust in edtech, synchronize their practices to platforms, and shape teachers' professional identities as pedagogic "innovators". New paper doi.org/10.1080/0962...

The student as user: mapping student experiences of platformisation in higher education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just out! Article on "Architectures of #assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of #datafication in UK #highereducation" w/ @jkom.bsky.social & Sam Sellar in New Media & Society #platforms #edtech #digital #bigtech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"This is the iron rule of technology adoption.... Despite its promise to make your life easier, it will simply create a series of new time-consuming problems for you to overcome." Good piece on teachers spending "time saved" with AI to also deal with AI problems

"The political problem with AI’s hype is that its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments." 2/ www.nytimes.com./2025/03/29/o...

My fave quote by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social in NYT article on #arificialintelligence "AI is a parasite. It attaches itself to a robust learning ecosystem & speeds up some parts of the decision process. The parasite & the host can peacefully coexist as long as the parasite does not starve its host" 1/

Fantastic, multi-faceted special issue on the phenomenon of tech work and the underexplored segment of high-paid workers in digital capitalism @vni.bsky.social #techworkers www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

In this study @annekovalainen.bsky.social & @poutanenseppo.bsky.social argue that the notion of #assetisation is crucial for understanding how states may function in shaping the epistemic foundation of education when transformed into sellable and rentable assets. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2aars72d

Great to have this new special issue on assetization, rentiership and digitalized education, edited by Janja Komljenovic, Kean Birch and Sam Sellar, now out @lmt-journal.bsky.social @jkom.bsky.social @keanbirch.bsky.social

In this article @benpatrickwill.bsky.social, Celis @arathings.bsky.social, Pykett and @kerifacer.bsky.social illuminate how #edtech investment is shaped through futuring methods that incorporate both data-driven and textual practices and technologies. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/3kpyd9yp

In this study @annekovalainen.bsky.social & @poutanenseppo.bsky.social argue that the notion of #assetisation is crucial for understanding how states may function in shaping the epistemic foundation of education when transformed into sellable and rentable assets. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2aars72d

The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

AI will never save educators time. It will be a constant drag on our professional autonomy, be an excuse for imposing other tasks, and - most soul-sappingly - stop us thinking about other educational things that matter more.

The promise of AI in education is it will save educators time. That's rubbish. It's sapping all our time already in working groups, committees, workshops, and marking anxiety. It's the most time-sapping, exhausting and frankly boring thing I've ever encountered in HE - and it's in my research area.

Our special issue ‘Rents, assets and governance in digitalised education’ is now published! Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/c...

Monilta kulttuurialan järjestöiltä viedään nyt koko toiminta-avustus - säästö valtiolle 6,7 miljoonaa. Turkistarhausta tuettiin viime vuonna 37 miljoonalla.

New publication: we discuss different ways to think through and map assetization in education. i, we look at the variety of assets in education; ii, the production and monetization of assets; iii, the embeddedness of assets in everyday, mundane practices; and iv, the politics of assetization.

Finally out! Much has been written about the capture and valorisation of young people’s attention via digital media. But what when attention becomes digitally captured via education systems? We explore the logics and affordances of neurotechnologies that do just that. doi.org/10.1080/1750...

New paper from our @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project on biology, data science and education just out Led by Dimitra Kotouza, it explores how student "attention" has been conceived by neuroscience as an object of intervention and a source of value via neurotechnologies doi.org/10.1080/1750...

Full article: Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....