@kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social 📣 A new issue by Urban Matters journal: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure. Showing how platforms are increasingly operate as socio-technical infrastructures shaping urban life, governance, care, housing, and knowledge production. lnkd.in/eAK5EuzX

Please sign and share our letter to the International Telecommunication Union on Internet shutdowns in Iran.

When the internet is shut down in Iran, gunfire begins. Since Jan 8, all connections are cut and families, journalists & activists are unreachable. Protesters are being killed in silence. Internet access is a human right. Please sign and share our letter to the ITU: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hard to explain how happy we are about the first multimedia publication out in our journal: Maja-Lee Voigt - Mapping #Amazon 's logistical footprint on the #Ruhr journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... a collage isometry of Amazon's layers in the EU warehouse capital

📢 Call for Papers Special Issue: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure Journal: Urban Matters Seeking contributions (3500–4000 words) Abstract deadline: June 15, 2025 Full details in the attached images.

I look forward to discussing @jloverwijk.bsky.social's excellent book "Cybernetic Capitalism" on Wednesday @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social, do join us from 6PM:

Just over a week to get your abstracts in for the special issue exploring the role of the digital in authoritarian politics, movements, and governance. Use your commentary of <2,000 words to document, critique, & catalyse dialogue about this important topic. journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...

📢 New Publication: “(En)coding care into digital urbanism: Vignettes of collective practices” published by Digital Geography and Society journal, part of the special issue of “Refusal and the Computational City – From (de)coding the machine to (en)coding care.” doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

CFP for Special Session: Post-Platforms Urbanism and Methodological Redesign 4th Digital Geographies Conference in Lisbon. Deadline for abstract submission: 30 April 2025 Link to the sessions: ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeogr...

JOIN me, @xriskology.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social for @datasociety.bsky.social 's #PredatoryData event discussion of the 21st C #eugenicsInBigTech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online tomorrow Thur 4/10 at 1P EasternUS time! datasociety.net/events/resis...

‘Kiez being (de)Codified’ – I’m presenting on April 10 at Humboldt Uni (online too), with @criticaldatalab.bsky.social. Wrapping up my research on Grassroots Digital Urbanism in Berlin, I’ll explore praxes that have spatially refused the fixing narratives of technology in the city.

[#Soziologie] Wohnen lässt sich vielseitig erforschen: Eine inspirierende Zusammenstellung geeigneter Methoden und Methodologien.  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7464-4/ #Wohnforschung #Wohnungsforschung #Wohnen #Interdisziplinarität #Geisteswissenschaft #Ingenieurswissenschaft

Update: Unfortunately the workshop has been cancelled for tomorrow but will be rescheduled. We'll keep everyone posted regarding new dates.

This Friday at York University, discussion on Abidin Kusno’s book, Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions. #urban #sociology

Nice to see that my paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now in print at @IJURResearch. I reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Silicon Valley Consensus: a persistent but fragile pattern for overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in tech to enrich networks of capitalists & advance their (reactionary) political projects. 1st iteration focuses on AI capex, first half today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silico...

I think about this headline all of the time.

Our new article with @eugeniasiapera.bsky.social is out and is available to read here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... So glad and proud to have this work!

Interesting fellowship: The fellowship is dedicated to supporting emerging female scholars, policymakers, leaders and advocates who are committed to driving change in Iran and across the Middle East and North Africa region, advancing the cause of women’s rights, gender equality and social justice.

📅 Berlin | 5 March Monopoly of the Tech Giants @futurehistories.bsky.social LIVE podcast recording with Prof. Cecilia Rikap The live episode recording will be followed by Q&A with the speakers and a reception with the opportunity for more discussions. 👇 www.rosalux.de/veran...

Workshop CFP: 'The use of research creation and arts-based methods in studying housing, planning and the built environment' (9–10 September 2025, Maynooth University, Ireland). Includes 13 bursaries for travel/accommodation to attend. Further details at: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=650

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

Popping this back at the top of the feed for other academics who started back at work today - using @brkeogh.bsky.social's tracker has made it so much easier for me to understand where my time's going, and has offered me more confidence in using the "flexibility" our jobs purportedly offer

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New publication! It’s the hardest and most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written - my autoethnography of being a social media researcher experiencing BamaRushTok. “A social media professor, mediated: Being subject, object, and spectator in BamaRush TikTok” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

'Neither fair nor legal. How and why untrustworthy digital ecosystems evolve' by Catherine Thompson, Daniel Samson and Sherah Kurnia in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. About Robodebt social welfare scandal aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol36/i...

Book: The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis, by Isaac Rose. repeaterbooks.com/product/the-... #urbanism #sociology

GPE's next Special Issue! 'Digital Fragmentations and Technological Sovereignty' Thank you to our guest editor! @maximilianiras.bsky.social @gpejournal.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... Our open access introduction: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...