This Thursday DCMI presents: “Automating Servitude: How Platforms Exploit Women’s Work,” with Julia Ticona (@jticona.bsky.social). Professor Ticona is the author the brilliant book Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age (Oxford 2022) and much more. Grucci Room 3:30pm.

The “childification” of AI and “parentification” of its users is a whole thing…

JOB FAIRY: Reminder that I am hiring a Senior Researcher (2 years postdoctoral experience - 5 year post) for the ERC funded LivePlatforms research project exploring how people make livelihoods in platform work in Ireland. Please apply or share widely! Closing date Jan 5. www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...

“What AI imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor,” Caitlin Petre and @jticona.bsky.social write. “The AI industry claims that it wants to democratize creativity, but the real goal is dominance.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

We’ve been talking with writers, artists, and actors, and they’re not worried about AI’s abilities, they’re mad that it stole its creativity from them and worried that it’s now being used in ways that threaten to dry up the pipeline of creative jobs that gave many their start.

From @jticona.bsky.social and Caitlin Petre, some great insights for policy and organizing from their interviews with artists grappling with the economic and labor impacts of AI

New from me and the brilliant Caitlin Petre - an essay for @nytimes about the now-or-never efforts to secure a future for paid creative work in the age of gen AI, and why they matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Call for Papers! "Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

"No taxes on tips" was supposed to help low-wage workers, but because of the platforms used for tipping and Trump's steamrolling of data protections, it may instead have dire consequences for them. @hannahwohl.bsky.social, Lindsey Cameron, & I in Newsweek today. tinyurl.com/yc27dah7