Happening on Monday! With a stellar line up @annettemarkham.bsky.social @riederb.bsky.social & @snurb.info 🔥

Still time so sign up 👇

little timeline cleanse for everyone (yes of course I fed it some green fresh grass after taking this pic)

Poster for the “AoIR Roundtable Series on Methods” by the Association of Internet Researchers. The design features a yellow and orange theme with photos of speakers: Dr. Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Annette Markham (Utrecht University), and Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology). The moderator is Dr. Meg Jing Zeng (University of Zurich). Event details: 13 April 2026, 18:00–19:30 CEST (Berlin). It is open to AoIR members only. A QR code and link is included for registration.

Join us for the first AoIR Roundtable Series on Methods 🔓📊 🤖 featuring long-standing AoIR members Dr. Annette Markham, Dr. Bernhard Rieder, and Dr. Axel Bruns - moderated by Dr. Meg Jing Zeng 🎉

🗓 13 April, 2026
🕒 18.00-19.30 CEST (Berlin)

🔗 Register: www.members.aoir.org/event-6612843

This sounds fab! I assume this is 11-1 pm Dublin time?

Shocker

I will be listening to Enya until further notice

The first installment of the #AoIR legacy talks with Steve Jones - co founder of AoIR - is happening tomorrow! Are you joining? Still time to sign up (members only) 😊

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

So, anyway, I guess my book is still relevant. *beats head on desk repeatedly*

just another day in hell

How to do things with a keyword: a cross-cultural analysis of the meanings and functions of ‘values’ on Twitter While people regularly employ the term values in mundane interactions and political debates on social media, little is known about its function in public communication. Approaching values as a keyw...

Social media is full of talk of values... but what do we 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 when we talk about 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠, and what do we use the term to 𝑑𝑜?
A new @icsjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess paper from DigitalValues team+co-authors analyzes the meanings and functions of 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 on Twitter
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

Mugatu meme: LinkedIn So hot right now

Academics in 2026

Panic! At The Discord - Ctrl-Alt-Speech In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Dr Blake Hallinan, Professor of Platform Studies in the Department of Media &am...

Come for the 2000s pop rock episode title, stay for @blakeplease.bsky.social’s razor sharp insights and American eagle impression. This week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech is live! podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

The 2026 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint is in Malmö on 11-12 August, with wonderful keynotes by @annettemarkham.bsky.social, Susana Tosca, @katjungnickel.bsky.social and @ubiquity75.xyz Submit abstracts by 30 March.

Governing TikTok - A US Power Play 🎭

Check out our new analysis published in Tech Policy Press wrapping up the last year of US tech policy shenanigans leading up to the #TikTokdeal that closed last week.
Shout out to @alexturvy.bsky.social for leading this endeavor!

Wonderful @com-ai.bsky.social talk by @madianou.bsky.social sharing insights on her work on techno colonialism.
Inspired to practice some mundane resistance :)

“there are windmills all over euprope. there are windmills are all over the place.“ yes, indeed, Donald

rip aaron swartz you wouldve loved journal editors getting together and deciding submission fees is how we combat AI in academia

Preprints are uncharted territory for me, I very much enjoy reading the ones of fellow platform governance research colleagues, so if you have thoughts/comments/critique, please reach out!

In this study, @reynoldscj.bsky.social , @vasilisak.bsky.social, @blakeplease.bsky.social @ckatzenbach.bsky.social and I compare the values articulated in the EU AI Act 🇪🇺, and (GenAI) policies from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, Meta AI, and Mistral AI.

New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance

Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so...

#AIAct #AIGovernance #Values

Woman Hacks "Tinder for Nazis," Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots A hacker targeted a white supremacist dating website, lured users with an AI chatbot, and deleted the platform entirely live on stage.

Late to the party, but this is hands down best internet news in a bazillion years. Martha Root also created a website with leaked data from those right wing dating profiles (88% men) okstupid.lol chapeau #CCC

futurism.com/artificial-i...

you were so quick!!

The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www:
aoir.org/aoir2026/
This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR.
Please share with your networks. 🌮

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

So sorry for your loss, Sarah 💔

When I was a student, I used to look up dissertations by people whose work I admired, and I loved reading their acknowledgements to get a glimpse into their life (I actually still love doing that). So if even one person ends up doing the same with mine someday, I’ll be happy. 🙃

Each piece stands on its own, but I am still excited to see my dissertation out in the world as a single piece.

This cumulative dissertation was written within the ERC-funded DigitalValues project & supervised by Limor Shifman. It consists of three interconnected papers published in New Media & Society, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Social Media + Society.