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the Big Tech broligarchy is deeply complicit with US border policy, says @ulises-mejias.bsky.social in this op ed: www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...

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We should NEVER have allowed commercial corporations to design our world of social interaction, our 'space of the world', commercial social media. Really enjoyed making this podcast about my new book. Thanks @markhurst.bsky.social (and sorry for the typo earlier)

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How should we make sense of the #MuskDOGE assault on US federal government, and what might resistance look like? Here's the take of myself and @ulises-mejias.bsky.social, just published by @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/data-colonia...

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New from me: Social media and the fate of the world. As @couldrynick.bsky.social points out, Big Tech is jeopardizing our ability to deliberate or cooperate on worldwide problems. buttondown.com/creativegood...

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Today the #MakeItFair campaign was launched by the Creative Rights in AI coalition ppa.co.uk/make-it-fair. Last year @ulises-mejias.bsky.social and I called out AI companies' data grab for the colonial act it is: www.penguin.co.uk/books/455862.... The first battle of many! please support it

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⬇️ Upcoming hybrid event 🌐 Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: The state of knowledge on news media, AI & data governance 📅 Thursday 20 March 2025, 6.30-8pm, LSE 🎫 Register: forms.office.com/e/9gEvCFn5yF 📄 Read the report: observatory.informationdemocracy.org/report/infor...

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Can data governance protect children better? What positive models are emerging for #ChildRights? #RightsCon2025 #DigitalFutures4Children @5rightsfound.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

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Explore the relationship between technology, humans and cities at our CDH Open with Myria Georgiou - Professor of Media and Communications at @lsemedia.bsky.social - tomorrow evening. 🗓️ Thursday 27 February, 5-7pm 📍 GR 06/07, English Faculty 🔗 Book: lnkd.in/eE7bVxbj

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Why is being a #victim such a potent identity today? Just over a week to go for the hybrid launch of @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social's book 'Wronged' where we'll be joined by #RosalindGill #RadhaSarmaHegde #KarinWahlJorgensen & @myriageorgiou.bsky.social (chair). Thurs 6 March, 6.30-8pm + reception

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Could #AI develop true intelligence without sentience? #LSEPhilosophy Professor @birchlse.bsky.social explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds. New article on Big Think ⬇️ bigthink.com/mini-philoso...

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📺 And we're live, watch the livestream now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lK... 🌍 Professor Anamik Saha University of Leeds discusses the crisis of diversity in media and popular culture 💬 Join the conversation using the hashtag #LSEEvents or #LSEMedia

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Welcome the depersonalization crisis in AI spring, says @allisonpugh.bsky.social #LSEevents

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What is the appeal of AI in this personal, clinical human space? @allisonpugh.bsky.social on the relationship between AI and interpersonal work. Stay up to date with our event hashtag #LSEEvents Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5jD... #socialhealth #connectivelabour #empathicwitnessing

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Starting 🔜 @allisonpugh.bsky.social explains how we have ended up in a moment in which machines have time for people, while human workers rush by, bent to the dictates of the industrial clock, and maps out its implications for the future of our social health.

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Join us for tomorrow's event with Professor Allison Pugh More info 👇 bsky.app/profile/lsem...

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Save the date for the upcoming launch event Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: The state of knowledge on news media, AI & data governance Thursday 20 March 2025, 6.30-8pm, LSE Register to attend in-person or online: forms.office.com/e/9gEvCFn5yF

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Excited for my upcoming book launch at LSE in conversation with the brilliant @karinwahlj.bsky.social Rosalind Gill, Goldsmiths, and Radha Hegde, NYU!

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This Wednesday- all welcome!

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If we are concerned about increasing loneliness and social fragmentation, we need to reckon with how technologies enable or impede human connection. Join this @lsemedia.bsky.social #LSEEvents with Allison Pugh and Sonia Livingstone. Wednesday 19 Feb, 6.30–8.00pm ⤵️ www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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Join us for the launch of Prof Lilie Chouliaraki's latest book 'Wronged: the weaponization of victimhood'. @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social will argue that even if suffering is universal, claiming pain is embedded within power relations. Thurs 6 March 2025 6.30pm-8pm www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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For #SaferInternetDay Gazal Shekhawat and Didem Özkul of the Digital Futures for Children centre highlight four kinds of deception that can harm children: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202... #SaferInternetDay #onlinescams #childrenonline #financialscams #onlinefraud

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Later this month we're excited to welcome @allisonpugh.bsky.social as she'll discuss her latest book 'The last human job: AI, depersonalisation and the industrial clock'. 🗓️ Wed 19 Feb 2025 6.30pm-8pm 🔵 Chair: @sonialivingstone.bsky.social 🎟 Hybrid event, open to all www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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#Trump rode pain and #victimhood to power, but grievance may not be an effective basis for governing argue @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social and @kat-hig.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social Read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

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From Nigel Farage's claims about two-tier policing, to Elon Musk’s weaponisation of the grooming gangs scandal, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social examines how the right portrays itself as a victim/on the side of victims. @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @jobale.bsky.social

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Great blog on cinema and borders by @kevinsmets.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

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📺 And we're live, watch the livestream now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lK... 🌍 Professor Anamik Saha University of Leeds discusses the crisis of diversity in media and popular culture 💬 Join the conversation using the hashtag #LSEEvents or #LSEMedia

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@liliechouliaraki.bsky.social & @kat-hig.bsky.social write that the now 47th president rode a narrative of persecution, pain and #victimhood back to the #WhiteHouse: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20... #Trump #DonaldTrump #inauguration #ElonMusk #USPolitics

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I am, of course, delighted to be one of the 400. If you've never been please check out the #ijf25 programme and better still, come along to Perugia in April

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Where can we find other stories for tech policy? My "Repairing Systems and Stories" at U Helsinki gets beyond critique by playing around with narrative structure - involving live Tarot readings for policy projects. Enjoy! www.helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/v...

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🔎 How do we understand the nature and meaning of #mediadiversity amidst #FarRight appeals to media representation? Join us 6.30pm this Thursday as Anamik Saha & Francesca Sobande will discuss the above question and more. #LSEEvents In person and online. See more ⤵️ www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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Next Thursday 6.30pm 🔜 #Racism &#antiracism clash daily in media discourse 🤛 In this @MediaLSE event, Anamik Saha & Francesca Sobande will discuss "othering" practices in popular media. Lee Edwards will chair the discussion #LSEEvents In person and online. See more ⤵️ www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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“Musk and Zuckerberg are promoting a version of free expression that defines censorship purely in terms of state action and is highly tolerant of censorship by private actors.” @damiantam.bsky.social on @lsemedia.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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“That’s not to say everyone is looking at [violent content] & in my research I talk to lots of teenagers who avoid it, or see it & are intrigued but wouldn’t dream of taking any action.” Read more of @sonialivingstone.bsky.social's expertise in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Hi friends! Now that the inauguration and its theatre of power, privilege and white supremacy is over, @kat-hig.bsky.social and I wrote something on Trump’s victimhood politics in his era of absolute power. @lseblogs.bsky.social and @lsemedia.bsky.social

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LSE. British Politics And Policy Blog. 🚀New! Ofcom has published its guide for tackling online harms and risks. @sonialivingstone.bsky.social of @lsemedia.bsky.social analyses the guide's shortcomings and argues that more and smarter regulation is needed to tackle how children are using the internet

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With the #UK's Online Safety Act, #Ofcom has published a guide for tackling harms and risks #online. But do these guidelines go far enough? @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social argues we need more and smarter #regulation to keep children safe online @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social 📱👇

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The turbulence of the #SocialMedia moment continues with #Meta's recent move to axe fact-checkers and the yo-yoing over a #TikTok ban in the US as #Trump takes office. What do these rapid changes mean for the spread of hate and #disinformation? Shakuntala Banaji for the @lsemedia.bsky.social blog.

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💥 New: Freedom of expression on social media must come with responsibility ✍️ Robin Mansell @lsemedia.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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🚀New! Elon Musk’s recent interest in disrupting EU and UK politics can seem a bit of mystery. But as @damiantam.bsky.social of @lsemedia.bsky.social argues, what lies behind it is the same reason Musk has allied with Trump: blatant economic interest. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Why is #ElonMusk determined to disrupt EU and UK politics, from supporting Germany's AfD to resisting EU and UK regulation of his platform, X? The same reason he's backed #DonaldTrump: his own economic interest. Damian Tambini @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social 👇

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#DonaldTrump rode pain and #victimhood back to the White House, but grievance may not be an effective basis for governing the country, argue @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social and @katthrynClaireHiggins @mediacomgold.bsky.social for the LSE United States Phelan Centre blog 👇

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🚀New! Ofcom has published its guide for tackling online harms and risks. @sonialivingstone.bsky.social of @lsemedia.bsky.social analyses the guide's shortcomings and argues that more and smarter regulation is needed to tackle how children are using the internet. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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