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ckatzenbach.bsky.social
Professor for Media and Communication @ZeMKI.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social // Director @pgmt.bsky.social and MA Digital Media and Society // platform governance, (generative) AI, hype, regulation, tech discourses, norms
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Have a Seat in our M.A. Digital Media and Society @zemki.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social led by @ckatzenbach.bsky.social You need inspiration? Just enjoy our newly released video on the program and about the lovely city of Bremen, directed by Oskar Knebel and Tim-Ole Popp🎞️ youtu.be/xDthOZEMI58

So happy to have this new clip for the MA Digital Media and Society that I am directing! That's the vibe @unibremen.bsky.social @zemki.bsky.social. 📆 Applications until 15 March 2025 🖥️ Online Info-Sessions and Q&A 10 March 2025 Info: zemki.uni-bremen.de/studium/ma-d... Video: youtu.be/xDthOZEMI58

Looking forward to presenting findings and behind-the-scenes considerations from the paper @tomdivon.bsky.social, @pamogranite.bsky.social & I have recently published on gaslighting as a platform comms strategy at the @pgmt.bsky.social. Join us virtually on March 18, at 2pm GMT.

Info Session Today 6pm CET: MA Digital Media and Society @unibremen.bsky.social 👩‍💻 Strong research focus 🌎 High level of international students (80%), fully taught in EN-language 🌇 Lively city 🤑 No tuition fees Deadline for Start OCT 2025 is March 15. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/studies/m... #study

The power of values for understanding social media is also their curse: they are everywhere. In an #openaccess article in New Media & Society, the Digital Values team presents an analytic framework for systematically making sense of values in digital spheres: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

This is happening tomorrow 3pm CET👇 If you are into Platform governance and Contest Moderation, LLMs and their politics, then make sure not to miss this. Emilie’s work is definitely cutting-edge in this area 💯

⚠️ Deadline for submissions is tomorrow FEB 15! @aoir.bsky.social @zemki.bsky.social

🚀 Tarleton Gillespie is speaking at AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 in Bremen! Join us, June 3-4, 2025, for "From Platform Governance to Generative AI." 📢 Call for Papers – Submit by Feb 15! Details: platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo... #AoIR2025Symposium #CfP #GenAI #PlatformGovernance

How do you cover a country in a constitutional crisis? Learn from actual crisis communication. No two-sideism, no euphemisms but strong words, focus on consequences, and point to help. @froomkin.bsky.social 💡 #journalism

Sarah T. Roberts will be a plenary speaker for our 2025 AoIR Flashpoint Symposium in Bremen. 🎯 From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance 📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen 🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 Feb 2025 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

🚀 Thomas Poell is speaking at AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 in Bremen! Join us, June 3-4, 2025, for "From Platform Governance to Generative AI." 📢 Call for Papers – Submit by Feb 15! 🔗 Details & Submissions: platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo... #AoIR2025Symposium #CfP

Looking forward to this!

This is going to be a really interesting event at exactly the right moment!

We ❤️ this MA programme! Our lab lead @ckatzenbach.bsky.social is heading the programme, and many of us are teaching courses: Research seminars on platforms governance, AI hype, and digital rights. Method training in computational methods and qualitative approaches. Meet us tomorrow TUE, JAN 28 👇

if you went to college/uni 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. (Software) Architect 2. Software Systems Engineering 3. Comms/Philosophy/Comp Sc 4. Prof (Media/Tech/Governance)

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

This is happening tomorrow, TUE JAN 28, 3-4pm CET. Don't miss out on this! Register below 👉

Applications are now open for our MA Programmes: MA Digital Media and Society (🙋🏻‍♂️ I am leading this) MA Media and Public Engagement (Lead: @cbpuschmann.bsky.social) Applications open until 15 March, for start OCT 2025 Info-Session 1 tomorrow TUE, JAN 28, 9am CET zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/studies/m...

We are more than excited to host the @aoir.bsky.social community and many more in Bremen (@unibremen.bsky.social) this year! "From Platform Governance to Generative AI" will address highly topical issues (almost too topical!) in digital media and society, in deeply critical times. Join us! 👉

It's noteworthy the tech titans are just behind the family row and in front of the cabinet picks:

My statement on the repeal of President Biden's Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

We kick-off 2025 with @blakeplease.bsky.social and @reynoldscj.bsky.social! We are more than happy to continue our series on empirical platform governance research with their talk on "malcontents as method". Join us on JAN 28, 2025! Info/Registration 👉 platform-governance.org/online-talk-...

We are hosting the 2025 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint Symposium in Bremen! 🎯 CfP "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance" 📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, DE 🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Michalis Pantelouris hat genauso kopfschüttelnd wie ich das Interview des Spiegel mit Robert Habeck gelesen — kopfschüttelnd über die Interviewer, nicht etwa über den Interviewten — aber bewundernswerterweise hat er seine Fassungslosigkeit danach in Textform gefasst: uebermedien.de/101792/ein-i...

🚨In the latest from DFRLab, @markscott.bsky.social explores how #Meta's widespread overhaul of its content moderation policies will have a real-world negative impact, embolden authoritarian regimes, and put its own users at risk. Explore whats next for global information ecosystems: bit.ly/406rhVK

There is nothing normal about a company that helps define what almost half of humanity sees on their screens explicitly promising to support a far-right leader, writes João C. Magalhães.

Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? Ah, yes. The Ministry of Empowerment. And here's a rager of a blog post on this: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...