@juanof9.bsky.social dissects the state of information sovereignty in Latin America, by tracing newsrooms' dependency on third-party digital infrastructure across 6 countries ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Happy to share my latest article, co-authored with Manuel Castells! This article advances an analytical framework illuminating how global communication power manifests across three key interfaces: search engines, social networking sites, and AI agents. Link in comment

Conectados o atados a EEUU? Marco Rubio presiona a Chile para frenar primer cable submarino Asia-América Latina. Traducción de la nota que escribimos con el ex embajador de Chile en China, Jorge Heine via #Observacom www.observacom.org/conectados-o...

Our February issue features insights from @juanof9.bsky.social on digital governance stacks and collectively securing political autonomy in an age of rapid governance automation. botpopuli.net/digital-gove...

Non-Aligned Tech Movement Newsletter #26: Geopolitical centre of gravity is shifting towards China- The US - China trade are decoupling – Africa importing Chinese solar panels at scale -Launch of LatamGPT +Call for abstracts nonalignedtech.net/26-us-calls-...

Why evoke the worn-out violence of saying: "kill two birds with one stone" when you can "feed two birds with one fruit" And have someone's neurons dance for a second to provide an actual mental image of that...

Newsletter #25 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement is out: -New NAM chair -Starlink Jammed in Iran? -US cyberattacks on Venezuela? -Falling trust in the US -Eurostack anxieties -Africa's Energy Grid -Mercosur-EU trade deal...and more👇 nonalignedtech.net/25-new-nam-c...

Beautiful reflection by @lumusello.bsky.social regarding a reading group on Dependency Theory we are hosting at the Non-Aligned Tech Movement 4sonline.org/news_manager...

Newsletter #24 is out! Emerging Silicon Trade Blocs, Robot industry in China, and Open Source defenses? nonalignedtech.net/24-emerging-...

The Amazon Web Services outage shows how a handful of corporate players control sensitive information chokepoints. These chokepoints can be leveraged to advance commercial or political agendas. Here are 6 strategies Governments are using to neutralize them: policyreview.info/articles/ana...

What are epistemic rights? My latest explores how this concept can enhance our ability to define, expose, and confront threats to press freedom and democracy. www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...

Newsletter #22 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement is out: Geopolitical shake-ups in the lower layers of the stack: Semiconductors, Chips, Minerals 🌋 nonalignedtech.net/22-geopoliti... #NAM -> #NATM

Will human rights guide technological development? Here's a 5-part series featuring experts from around the world I curated for #OpenGlobalRights: (Link in comment)

We need an infrastructural revolution for supporting digital rights ↓ www.openglobalrights.org/networks-ove...

Newsletter #21 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement is out: AI Action Plans, corporate Chin-exit🪂…and non-aligned dreams? nonalignedtech.net/21-ai-action...

Newsletter #20 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement is out! –> Sovereign Tech Shifts 🔀 | South Korea’s AI Play, US-China Chip Tax, & Iran’s GPS Exit? -> nonalignedtech.net/20-sovereign... - #NATM #GPS #BeiDou #WhatsApp #China #USA #EU #NonAlignedMovement

Tomorrow at 11 AM, I’ll be presenting my research on how lessons from disarmament processes can help us dismantle propaganda systems and safeguard the internet as a shared space for knowledge. #IPSA2025 – Room 4F 402

Globalization & interdependence are increasingly being weaponized to advance narrow geopolitical agendas. From #Hormuz to #Panama; #Starlink to #AppStore As existing institutions & norms shake, policymakers scramble to: Identify chokepoints +Define what CAN be done SHOULD be done #IGF2025

Heading off to #IGF2025 ! Drop a line if you're planning to attend!

NATM Newsletter #18: 🪖 The military turn among US tech corps 🏗️ Harnessing infrastructural power 🇨🇳🇺🇸 China more popular than the US in most countries polled ...and more-> nonalignedtech.net/18-the-milit...

Happening tomorrow (Saturday) 10:30–11:45am @ Mt. Princeton (Grand 3 - #ICA25 / #ICA2025 ) #MediaInfrastructures

Heading to Denver for #ICA2025 ! On Saturday I will be dissecting how Latin American online newspapers depend on third-party infrastructure and the commercial and geopolitical risks this represents. Manuscript available on my website.

Heading to #GIGARTS2025! I'll be presenting on #InternetGovernance & #DigitalSovereignty 1)State Strategies to deal w/ Points of Control: policyreview.info/articles/ana... 2)Threats to Informational Sovereignty: Latin American Newspapers papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Full agenda at gig-arts.eu

[New paper] Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control, By @juanof9.bsky.social policyreview.info/articles/ana... #undersea #telecom

🏗️INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER🕸️ Just published a 🌟new article🌟 @policyr.bsky.social exploring strategies governments use to manage critical internet control points. Dive into a fresh typology and six real-world examples. -> policyreview.info/articles/ana... // #InternetGovernance #GigArts2025

📰Newsletter #17 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement ( #NATM) is now out! ♟️🗺️Regional castling? Trump deals in the Middle East / China in Latin America + Bandung's 70th Anniversary -> Newsletter: nonalignedtech.net/17-regional-... 📩-> Sign-up: lists.riseup.net/www/subscrib...

Mild progress in the Gmail choice screen. Now they make your default browser actually look like a browser...Although its underhanded for them to continue to promote their own browsers in that choice screen. Browsers I have chosen *NOT* to have on my phone. Before / After

"For, alas, history is not only (as we are so often told) the history of human courage, but also the history of human faintheartedness; and politics is ... but a servile bowing of the knee by the so-called leaders before the demons they have themselves created." (Zweig -> Fouché)

The internet is the physical embodiment of the process of broader economic networking that took place since the 1990s, and which we called globalization. The internet will become the surface over which the process of de-globalization will become the roughest, with tech companies hit the hardest

My essay on the future of AI for Elon Univ (p.75-78): "the challenge is..political coordination to address the forces reshaping our understanding of self & society... Three key trends suggest that power consolidation is most likely: imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/wp-content/u...

"We've heard it, we've all heard all about all the sticks spears and swords, the things to bash and poke and hit with, the long, hard things, but we have not heard about the thing to put things in, the container for the thing contained. That is a new story. That is news." -Ursula K. Leguin

Algorithmic Pluralism: Towards Competitive & Innovative Information Ecosystems Interesting new whitepaper by Sherif Elsayed-Ali & Robin Berjon drive.google.com/file/d/1DuZs...

🚨Event Alert! Launch of a new report: “Scanning the Horizon: The Future of Digital Rights & Resilience in the Global Majority” Join on March 20, 2:00-3:30 PM UTC for an open conversation with report author @juanof9.bsky.social and colleagues! Register: digitalresilience.network/20-mar-repor...

On March 20th we will have @juanof9.bsky.social @nighatdad.bsky.social @monajem.bsky.social @socialtic.bsky.social @esraa.bsky.social and others to talk about some trends to re-imagine a better future in the horizon in the global majority. Join us! 👇 digitalresilience.network/20-mar-repor...

lol what the fuck

Happy birthday world wide web! "the method of storage must not place its own restraints on the information. This is why a "web" of notes with links (like references) between them is far more useful than a fixed hierarchical system...." www.w3.org/History/1989...

Report launch & discussion: 🔹 How can civil society respond to #BigTech’s growing control over digital infrastructure? 🔹 What strategies work for adapting to shifts in #DigitalRights funding? 🗓️ March 20 | ⏰ 2:00-3:30 PM UTC 💻 Register here: digitalresilience.network/registration/

Last month I presented my ongoing research on infrastructural power at #SOTN in DC. They've now released the video of my 7min lightning talk! Key takeaway: Points of information control move across the internet Feedback welcome—>paper still under review! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5uh...

“how we shape the machines, & how the machine and its current owners shape us…Should we seek shared control over such towers, or should they be destroyed? As researchers, we must engage with these two competing visions” An agenda for science & technology studies?👇 4sonline.org/news_manager...

Very proud of this timely work with Nedah Nemati. We argue that carceral technologies, such as electronic monitoring, make indiscriminate psychological torture a feature of everyday life – even for people who have not been charged with a crime. www.openglobalrights.org/carceral-tec...

Tech Trend: The power & impact of online intermediaries has increased radically over the past decades: Platforms like #Facebook & #Instagram kept their original names, BUT Key underlying information CONTROLS have changed=> More power over info AND Larger USER base + More TIME online=>+impact

“The future is not only unpredictable, but malleable.” [NEW] Forecasting report w/ the Digital Resilience Network ! Designed to fuel collaborative resistance across the Global Majority 📊 Trends in: 🌍 Geopolitics & local governance 🤖 Tech 💵 Funding -> digitalresilience.network/wp-content/u...

On the one hand, there’s the theory of the dead internet, which claims the internet is dead & run by AI bots for other AI bots that fake engagement for advertisers On the other hand, others claim the most toxic corners of the internet migrated to mainstream & are taking over physical interactions😬

Risk perceptions: G7 vs BICS (=BRICS-Russia)

Second article published in the #OpenGlobalRights series: Will #HumanRights guide tech development? Here @petramolnar.com explores border tech as an expression of techno-imperialism in a dying world --> www.openglobalrights.org/smart-border...

The February Newsletter of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement ( #NATM) is out! N #14: Trump unleashes geopolitical turbulence-> pad.riseup.net/p/NATM_News-... Join 99 people currently discussing the geopolitics of tech & non-alignment by signing up to the NATM email listserv: nonalignedtech.net

New from Meta: Project #Waterworth connecting US to 3 BRICS countries "the project will reach five major continents and span over 50,000 km (longer than the Earth’s circumference), making it the world’s longest subsea cable" It's shape reminds me of the British Empire's All-Red line (Telegraph)🙃

Second article published in the #OpenGlobalRights series: Will #HumanRights guide tech development? Here @petramolnar.com explores border tech as an expression of techno-imperialism in a dying world --> www.openglobalrights.org/smart-border...

At #SOTN25 Senator @edmarkey.bsky.social calling out the degree of centralization we see online, and underlines that the alignment of big tech companies with the US President (tech leaders seated in front of the cabinet at the inauguration!) represents a threat to the internet AND to democracy.

Today 11.30 EST at #SOTN25 North Hub I'll be presenting my work on infrastructure power: How are governments re-networking the infrastructure and disrupting internet chokepoints?