Carl Öhman, Assistant Professor at the Department of Government, Uppsala University

@cohman.bsky.social is one of two receivers of this year's Oscar Prize at Uppsala University. Grats Carl!

"Carl Öhman's book The Afterlife of Data asks important questions about who should control the data we leave behind us, and by extension, our collective history."

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The Quantum Panopticon: A Theory of Surveillance for the Quantum Era - Minds and Machines The advent of quantum computing will compromise current asymmetric cryptography. Awaiting this moment, global superpowers are routinely collecting and storing encrypted data, so as to later decrypt it...

Yesterday, Minds & Machines published this absolute bad boy of a paper! In it, Erik Olsson and I present a new theory of surveillance for the era of quantum computing, all based on his outstanding master's thesis that I had the honor of supervising last year.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

VICTOR MALM: Nu krigar svenska högern – om Trump Delar av den svenska högern har uttryckt sympatier för Elon Musks härjningar i den amerikanska statsapparaten. Victor Malm går på djupet med näthögerns stora problem.

Lanserar ett nytt ord - Trumptydaren - för att beskriva den nya höger som plötsligt är förtjust i Trump.

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Thoughtless obedience and the healing power of trees: 2024’s best Books in brief Bibliophile Andrew Robinson reveals 10 essential science reads from the past year.

Oh this? It’s nothing really, it’s just Nature naming The Afterlife of Data one of 2024’s top 10 books 😅(🕺)

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How ChatGPT Changed the Media’s Narratives on AI: A Semi-automated Narrative Analysis Through Frame Semantics - Minds and Machines We perform a mixed-method frame semantics-based analysis on a dataset of more than 49,000 sentences collected from 5846 news articles that mention AI. The dataset covers the twelve-month period centre...

My first post here and first journal publication as a PhD student!
Did the ChatGPT boom change how the media talk about AI? We think that it did and try to answer how. The article with my amazing advisors @cohman.bsky.social and Johanna Björklund is now published!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Onze Top 10 Boeken van 2024 Het boekjaar 2024 heeft ons een indrukwekkende reeks literaire parels opgeleverd. Van meeslepende biografieën tot ontroerende romans en inspirerende non-fictie, hier is de top 10 van boeken die dit ja...

Glad to see Dutch Proudies list The Afterlife of Data as one of the 10 best books of 2024!

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Tack!

The best ideas books of 2024 Richard Dawkins’s greatest hits, the diaries of a sociopath and a history of the gut

So pleased to see that @theguardian.com (too!) has named The Afterlife of Data one of the best books of 2024! Thanks!

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Stoked to learn that The Afterlife of Data has been selected for @economist.com's list of the best books of 2024!

www.economist.com/culture/2024...

Ändå fascinerande att allt som krävdes var en kronologisk tidslinje, att alla gemensamt bestämt sig för att blocka eller ignorera folk som bär sig illa åt.
Ska villigt erkänna att jag trodde Tiktok (och video) var framtiden, men det verkar onekligen som om det blir allt roligare här.

How ChatGPT Changed the Media’s Narratives on AI: A Semi-automated Narrative Analysis Through Frame Semantics - Minds and Machines We perform a mixed-method frame semantics-based analysis on a dataset of more than 49,000 sentences collected from 5846 news articles that mention AI. The dataset covers the twelve-month period centre...

ChatGPT revolutionised AI. But how did it change the media's narratives around it? In this paper, led by my brilliant PhD student Igor Ryazanov, we apply an automated framing analysis to a unique dataset of news articles to find out. The findings surprised us.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Många i Sverige har hört av sig för att förbeställa The Afterlife of Data men vill inte betala frakt från US. Tips: Från Svenska Amazon är frakten gratis och boken kostar 258 kr! Billig och skriven på mkt tillgänglig engelska. KÖP DEN IDAG!

www.amazon.se/Afterlife-Da...

Lyssna gärna på mig i lång intervju med fiska YLE om deepfakes, porr och politik!

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Happy to share that my upcoming book "The Afterlife of Data" can now be pre-ordered on Amazon! If you're looking for an accessible and—so say the reviews—FUN book about what happens to your data when you die, please order a copy already—ONLY £18 for a hardcopy!!!

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Come work with us! We are hiring at least three new PhD students, fully funded.
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