Unter all den "Reform"- und Sparvorschlägen der letzten Monate sind diese besonders widerlich und gefährlich.

Die beiden Büchercover auf pink-weißem Hintergrund.

Wie viel Macht hat das Silicon Valley wirklich – und wer regiert hier eigentlich wen? @adriandaub.bsky.social zeigt in »Was das Valley herrschen nennt« (shrk.vg/ValleyHerrsc...), wie Tech-Konzerne Politik prägen – und fragt, ob sie überhaupt wissen, was Herrschaft bedeutet.

Wer glaubt, dass Bibliotheken künftig keine Bücher mehr sammeln sollten, weil ja vermeintlich die Zukunft im Digitalen liegt, der hat die Zukunft in Wahrheit schon lange aufgegeben

Eine neue Folge Future Histories LIVE!

Diesmal spreche ich mit @annanosthoff.bsky.social (@criticaldatalab.bsky.social; Uni Oldenburg) über ihr neues Buch 'Kybernetik und Kritik: Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst' (@suhrkamp.de).

Zu finden hier:
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#FutureHistories #Podcast

ZKK Talks 2026
Solutionism, discontinued.

ZKK TALK #6
11. Mai 2026, 18:30
Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst.
Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski im Gespräch mit Roland Meyer
Universität Zürich, Raum KUM E 1/2/3, Künstlergasse 15 a, 8001 Zürich

wie diese unscheinbare Mikro-Geste Aufmerksamkeit, Begehren und Urteil taktil re-organisiert – und damit das Verhältnis von Agency und Subjektivierung neu akzentuiert.

Dankbar für die Einladung & ich freue mich auf den Austausch. 2/2

#Digitalität #Subjektivierung #Kultursoziologie

Bei der Tagung Digitalität und Subjekt des @dgsoziologie.bsky.social Netzwerk Subjektivierungsforschung spreche ich heute im Panel Autonomie, Körper und Praktiken über „Swipe! Eine Geste als Chiffre der Gegenwart?“. Ausgehend vom Wischen über Touchscreens frage ich, 1/2

#Praxistheorie

Digitalisation has impacted us all but who is concerned and how much do different groups worry? New published research by @yanghu.co.uk and colleagues sheds light on these questions

“those with greater digital literacy are more concerned about digital technologies’ potential harms”

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...

How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’ At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a star

How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’

When OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings to appeal to more people, some users were left spiraling. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

Digitaler Omnibus: „Größter Rückschritt für digitale Grundrechte in der Geschichte der EU“ Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament ...

Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament und in der Zivilgesellschaft formiert sich dagegen massiver Widerstand.

Update zum Endlos-Clusterfuck #Humboldtforum: der Bundesgerichtshof hat nun entschieden, dass Ehrhardt Bödeckers – ein Großspender der Berliner Schlossfassaden - tatsächlich Rechtsradikaler und Antisemit war und die Kritik daran u.a. durch Philipp Oswalt gerechtfertigt gewesen ist. 1/

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’

How long until you ask chatGPT what you should do this weekend and it gives you a list of things to buy from Walmart?

My focus: technology imaginaries—how we can counter the #data doxa of our algorithmic present through everyday practices & stories. Grateful to be part of this initiative. Stay tuned for insights & publications as we rethink narratives in culture & society.

Our team will map overlaps between sociology & literary studies while opening new terrain: from the epistemological value of literature to the sociological use of narratology. It’s about cultivating an exciting, interdisciplinary field.

Honored to join the @princeton.edu — @humboldtuni.bsky.social research project “#Socionarratology — Mapping a Field Between Literary Studies & Social Sciences.” A 2-year initiative exploring how literature & sociology intersect to shape knowledge & society.

Excited to present @lancasteruni.bsky.social's #practicetheory & #power workshop! I'll explore #algorithm as practices for cracking open #blackbox myths. I propose to read #code as cultural texts and am looking forward to exciting exchanges and meeting fellow praxeologists. #sociology #phdlife

"A vintage green typewriter with a blank yellow sheet of paper inserted, set against a solid red background."

CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.

Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.

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Select tickets – The future of AI and education – Royal Irish Academy Join us for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors. About t...

Join us in the Royal Irish Academy and online for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors on Tuesday 23 September. Book your tickets now. www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy...

Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments

Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models

www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025 The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Art of Decision-Making Your life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be.

We say that we “decide” to get married, to have children, to live in particular cities or embark on particular careers, and in a sense this is true. But how do we actually make those choices?

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

The way we write shapes our thinking. We process the world through the composition of text [...]. It’s possible that the ability to write original and interesting sentences will become only more important in a future where everyone has access to the same A.I. assistants. share.google/JhKEPrOpqext...

State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture - Digital Society This commentary situates the epistemic values of machine learning’s culture of benchmarking and evaluation within larger temporal structures. Beyond questions of validity, whether model comparisons ar...

The first paper is a short reflection by @alexcampolo.bsky.social titled 'State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture', which explores how benchmarks produce certain temporal values and expectations link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our Cruel Crude Techne? Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Our moment seems marked by cruelty: from best-selling books warning Christians against “toxic empathy” towards immigrant families to online trolls who gleefully torture their v…

"To put it most provocatively, we’ve moved from a moment of masochism to one of sadism." Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's "Our Cruel Crude Techne?" on the CI blog.
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