@amyaharder.bsky.social on one of the biggest stories in energy: fossil fuel companies working with tech to build massive gas power plants on the site of data center complexes. Rob Wingo of the pipeline company Williams says this "doesn't hit the retail customers," but I'm skeptical.
AI can speak non-English languages fluently, but it still thinks in a Western worldview.
For instance, it will prioritize individual autonomy, direct communication and personal boundaries, even in cultures where harmony, community and relational awareness matter more.
Pentagon bombs Iranians w/Palantir, Anthropic for rapid AI target selection and "speeding the pace of the campaign."
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Were the Minab schoolgirls murdered because of an AI? Hegseth and Trump should be held responsible when AI is put on the job.
A new CA science foundation is a good step forward. Here's hoping that if it becomes reality, it really evaluates the "potential benefit to the health and well-being of the population, natural resources, and environment of the state" including in how it deals with intellectual property.
THRILLED that Brian Chen's new policy brief, "The Big AI State: How the Trump Administration is Shaping US Industrial Policy toward 'Global Technological Dominance'" is live! Trump is not "deregulating"; his admin is intervening in the market BIG TIME to bolster AI. datasociety.net/library/the-...
How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? New book by @mark4harrison.bsky.social and Stephen Broadberry looks across three centuries of global history for clues to how economic sanctions and warfare worked and why their effects often came as a surprise.
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Thanks for sharing, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!
If anyone wants an even more detailed guide through the book peer review process, I have a free webinar on it too (but today is the last day to get it)
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Thank you for the kind and encouraging words
Together, we ask: How can thinking and writing from/with Asia help us provincialize Silicon Valley and generate new concepts for understanding platform economies today?
🍷 Here's a full lineup of our 10 articles:
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From Japanese convenience stores to K-pop fandoms, from Chinese superapps to Indian short-video platforms, our contributors explore how Asia’s diverse experiences of platformization reshape global debates on labor, governance, and post-neoliberal futures.
I am very pleased to share our new Social Media + Society special issue, co-edited with Jingyan Elaine Yuan. This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to rethink both “platform” and “Asia” as dynamic, contested imaginaries—rather than fixed objects of analysis.
Drugs (tobacco and sugar), were the very engine of the colonial American economy.
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
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Such a pleasure working with you all to bring this piece into the world. Hope our conversations continue!
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social
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Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)
Heartfelt thanks to Yifan Cai, Gulinigaer Yishake, @sandeepmertia.bsky.social , @andretwp.bsky.social for their brilliant & generous engagements！
I’m thrilled to share my recently published book forum response in Dialogues in Urban Research, in response to a set of wonderful book reviews of The Labor of Reinvention. Details and links to articles here:
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Together with the great @data.ft.com piece yesterday on AI capacity, this is going straight on the syllabus for September - ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
This is fascinating although I must admit is not a beach read. It makes me think that one of the big trends we’re seeing in government/public policy is the spread of third wave systems theory (into theories of statecraft, PSR, leadership training, etc). 1/2
In our intro, we revisit and reimagine Chinese communication studies through three analytical lenses: China in plural, Global China from above and below, and the digital platform as a contested infrastructural space. We hope this issue will inspire new conversations and directions in the field.
This collection features six excellent articles—ranging from rural fintech & e-commerce, the political economy of TikTok, the overseas Chinese fashion industry, to new theoretical approaches for studying platforms/infrastructures, and the platformization of China’s music industry.
New Special Issue Alert:
Our special issue “Whither China? Chinese Communication Research at the New Conjuncture” has finally been published in the Chinese Journal of Communication!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcjc20/1...
I like this analogy: the computer interface as the 'theatre of the screen', with an understanding of theatre (like all art) as 'a lie that tells the truth'. www.clunyjournal.com/p/history-of...
Coming March 2026
