The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up. www.wired.com/story/why-th...

My latest article "The Consequences of Data Activism: Data Sustainability Package in Air and Biodiversity Data Politics" has just been published in "Social Movement Studies," in which I discuss what are the opportunities and threats associated with the use of data by activists.

Just trying out ChatGPT 4.5, and out of nowhere it started making "jokes" about the text I was discussing with it, putting the words "explicit" and "explicitly", end with:

super excited to see a photo of the actual book that is the Polish translation of @vicclarke.bsky.social and my @sagepub.com book Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide! Sadly I have zero words of Polish! @amymaher.bsky.social 🥰 #ThematicAnalysis #Qualitative

💪‼️🥳 The update to 1.0 of #OpenQDA, our software and research infrastructure for coding #qualitative #data, is out: In addition to a new interface, the code system can now be managed easily and intuitively, and much more. #QDA #opensource zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/openqda-1...

16 PhD scholarships in POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY Faculty of Political Science and Sociology Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) Closing date: 13th March 2025 www.sns.it/en/phd-admis...

what the hell 😅

Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.

I’m going to try to avoid posting “OMG did you see what Trump/Musk did?” content unless really relevant to Europe getting its shit together. There’s only a limited amount of energy in my life and I know where it needs to be focused.

In this new format of the recently launched SAGE journal Dialogues on Digital Society, our @mitpress.bsky.social book Algorithms of Resistance shorturl.at/deLVW has been reviewed by 3 scholars to which we then respond. Smart way to dust off book reviewing! All Open Access, including our book :)

Last season of the USA is gonna be epic

Wow, finally, climate change has stopped being real. Whew!

Before PhD: I don't know During PhD: that is beyond the scope of my current knowledge After PhD: I don't know

just learned that Eagle Eye Cherry was his NAME (and that he’s Don Cherry’s son?)

Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds is available open access w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... You can order the book in hardcover and paperback, too, if you need a last minute Christmas present: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

Wonderful teaching resource with further reading suggestions by @robkitchin.bsky.social, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods! This is so useful for building a fundamental understanding of everything data-related before getting into more complex discussions.

🤡 “The action could allow data centers to exceed pollution limits, open federal lands to data center construction and give data centers priority access to available power supply, the people said. One of the sources said the policy under discussion would take the form of an executive order”

🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social! 🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social. 🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies

CFP: Digital Sociology: New Theoretical Approaches, New Methodological Perspectives, New Research Areas studiasocjologiczne.pl/p,482,call-f...

#books #bookrecommendations #authors #privacy

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

I just joined Bluesky. I’m an environmental macrosociologist at UBC studying the societal drivers of the climate crisis. Hope to link up with others here with similar interests. #climate #ClimateCrisis #sociology #Political-Economy #inequality

Our special Issue on platforms, power & friction is officially out with shiny volume and issue numbers in @icsjournal.bsky.social, just in time for thinking about the interplay between platform power and authoritarianism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better. Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful

Interesting read. Paul Bialski's (@bialski.bsky.social) Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton University Press). So much of life is all about good enough (rather than excellence or perfection) due to the mess of compromises to get by press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

BlueSky disappeared one of my #StarterParks, so I had to reconstruct it. My packs are: 1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX 2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/HoDHyNe 3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/H1Xd6SL

If you are invested in #PhilTech and would like to be added to this list, please chat me and give me your handle + the handle of another person from an underrepresented group in our field or adjacent field who should also be on this list. Thanks! go.bsky.app/BhbK7AE

My OA article "Data phronesis and the duality of care in the air quality data politics" has just been published in „Information, Communication and Society”. In it, I address the situated valuation of data practices in disputes over air quality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As part of introducing myself, I'm sharing my recent article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social, in which I explore the concept of data arenas as a relational field for strategic actors in diverse areas of the contentious politics of data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Sociology #STS #PhilTech

❗️New OA Article❗️ Harmonizing biodiversity data in European Union environmental politics as socio-technical practices of birdwatcher communities, scientists, and policymakers. #sts #envhum #sociology #academia Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I made a starter pack for public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields. LMK who else I should add, please. #PublicInterestTech #PublicInterestTechnology #DataforSocialGood go.bsky.app/He8HTaC

This is a great starter pack in the digital democracy, AI, media, politics, journalism space ⬇️🔥

❗️New OA Article❗️ Harmonizing biodiversity data in European Union environmental politics as socio-technical practices of birdwatcher communities, scientists, and policymakers. #sts #envhum #sociology #academia Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw as an Assistant Professor in digital sociology and social theory! Excited for this new chapter!

Defended! 🥳

»Generative AI is just another word for surveillance capitalism. Taking our data with dubious consent and activating it through services it sells back to us. It is a visualisation of the way we organise things, a pretty picture version of the technologies that sorted and categorised us all along.«

Just out! Introduction to the „Care-ful Data Studies” special issue of Information, Communication & Society by Irena Zakharova and Juliane Jarke. Much needed theoretical shift from critique to caring in data worlds! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Since Bluesky has been opened, I would like to connect with newcomers in the digital #STS, #citizenscience, and #sociology area. Who are worth following? Thanks for sharing!

This looks awesome! "Whereas public sociology is often defined through the actions of professional sociologists, this article calls for a recognition of [how publics] can, and often do, produce sociological theories and analyses that can inform professional sociology."

Order your inspection copy of mine and @simonlindgren.bsky.social’s newest book “Researching Digital Media and Society”, here:

"Computational power can be confronted only through cooperation, mutual aid, and collective power." Looking forward to digging into this open access book from Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré on "how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains." direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Welcome to Bluesky, everyone! We opened access yesterday, and we just crossed 4M people total on the network. 🎉 • 800k+ new users have signed up • Averaged 8.5 new accounts/second • 2M posts were created in the last 24 hours We're so excited to have you here!

My OA article "Data phronesis and the duality of care in the air quality data politics" has just been published in „Information, Communication and Society”. In it, I address the situated valuation of data practices in disputes over air quality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This will be my auto reply the rest of the month

"The #AI Act will set up a new European AI Office to coordinate compliance, implementation, and enforcement. It will be the first body globally to enforce binding rules on AI" By @Melissahei #AIEthics www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/11/1...

Tips for newcomers on here: -Introduce yourself by announcing who your least favorite professional badminton player is. -Upload a picture of your face to confirm that you are not James Corden. -Find one person and comment "this does not make me respect you any less" on all of their posts.