brilliant blog overnight by @parismarx.com on Sam Altman's hubristic thinking about intelligence as private utility: disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb...

INCA an EU-based project has just launched a terrific documentary on data (I'm pleased to be part of it - thanks to Niccolo Cuppini). The film is called “Data Revolution!” Please circulate to students, friends . .
Trailer: lnkd.in/e2ewHcnP
Full video: lnkd.in/ePzbnVEr
Project page: lnkd.in/eZkpUWnh

Do traditional media theories still hold up in a digital world? 🌐

Join #BartCammaerts at for his book launch, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory.

🗓️ Tues 31 March 6.30-8pm
📍 LSE + Online
🎟️ Register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1

#LSEMedia #MediaTheory #London @routledgebooks.bsky.social

Really important from @robinberjon !! Citizens are already ahead of most of their politicians. In today's hyperconnected world, a transactional US government is anything but a friend!

I strongly agree. We cannot afford to abandon social media to the right, even as we need to find ways to rebuild social media on a better basis. @debbieball.bsky.social @adelewalton.bsky.social

I am excited too. A movement needs to be built around these issues. Maybe this is one place it starts?

Me complace anunciar una renovación de mi página web personal www.nickcouldry.org En un solo lugar mis blogs recientes medios publicaciones y charlas, por ej. www.nickcouldry.org/blog-1 Me alegra especialmente que mis páginas web estén tanto en inglés como en español. Gracias a Aikaterini Mniestri

Pleased to announce a revamp of my personal website: www.nickcouldry.org . There in one place are my recent blogs, media, publications, and talks, eg www.nickcouldry.org/blog-1 Particularly pleased my webpages are in both English and Spanish. Thanks to Aikaterini Mniestri for invaluable support

Exactly, because GenAI Chatbots are designed to further a similar business model to the commercial social media whose failure we already understand all too well

Well this seems fine

Social media giants must be held accountable for youth mental health harms, analyst warns YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

It was great to speak to @aljazeera.com about #Zuckerberg testifying in front of a jury last week, in a watershed moment for holding big tech to account.

www.youtube.com/watch?si=HyU...

this was great fun to record. Thanks the DDTU project and team for having us!

This new piece by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social is brilliant - and essential reading on the damage to the social texture that unbounded AI use threatens to do: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Social media age bans will fail because they are not radical enough - LSE European Politics Social media age bans are half-measures. To fix social media, we must ban the exploitative business models that profit from our attention.

Social media age bans are a only half-measure.

Only by banning toxic business models that exploit social attention can we address the problems with social media – @couldrynick.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

If you are interested in my take on the social media age ban debate, here it is, thanks to @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

Thanks to @npr.org for profiling our @brookings.edu study on #AIED: www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n.... Find the report here:www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-direction...

Hopefully of interest!
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DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting The federal government is openly embracing white nationalist online content — including in a recent recruitment post.

theintercept.com/2026/01/13/d...

this recent interview by my co-author Ulises Mejias gives an up-to-date view of our approach to #datacolonialism for the age of GenAI

👊💰 We need a revolution in social media business models Deepti Doshi on the business incentives underlying social media

On a weekend of atrocious news, this vision of better public spaces, closer to communities, is a much needed positive: open.substack.com/pub/newpubli...

AI Can Make Decisions Better Than People Do. So Why Don’t We Trust It? Machines that show their work, in ways that are impossible for humans, could overcome the public’s inherent distrust.

"For those asking the public to trust their AIs, it doesn’t help that systems based on related technology are causing harm in ways all of us hear about daily, from suicide-encouraging chatbots to image generators that devour jobs and intellectual property." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

this recent interview by my co-author Ulises Mejias gives an up-to-date view of our approach to #datacolonialism for the age of GenAI

Is there an alternative to Big Tech’s control of the social media space? - LSE Review of Books Nick Couldry's The Space of the World explores Big Tech's control over social media & calls for a radical, non-commercial redesign of our shared digital spaces.

Is there an alternative to Big Tech’s control of the #SocialMedia space?

The Space of the World by @couldrynick.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social offers a radical vision that counters the profit-driven space we know.

#Review by Dawa Tshering @edithcowanuni.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

a review for the LSE Review of Books is out today of my recent book on social media, The Space of the World: lnkd.in/e-Bg79H7

If you are interested in hearing my latest take on AI and the challenges it poses for communications research, here is a keynote I gave at ZEMKI University of Bremen in October @zemki.bsky.social

This article by @jburn-murdoch is very important

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

"Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest." Others include Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth.

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

The US Government’s Use of Elon Musk’s Grok AI Undermines Its Own Rules | TechPolicy.Press Public Citizen's J.B. Branch warns federal use of Elon Musk’s Grok AI risks biasing government systems.

“AI in the public sector must not become a Trojan horse for ideological capture or commercial favoritism,” argues Public Citizen’s J.B. Branch. He calls on OMB to halt the federal rollout of Grok AI, citing risks to fairness and neutrality that violate the Trump Administration’s own AI guidance.

The space of our world: how social media broke solidarity and how we might mend it - Media@LSE Kirti Dubey writes about Professor Nick Couldry’s public lecture at LSE where he detailed the arguments in his recent book, The Space of the World,

Interesting blog reacting to my recent LSE lecture @lsemedia.bsky.social : blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...