Pentagon bombs Iranians w/Palantir, Anthropic for rapid AI target selection and "speeding the pace of the campaign."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Were the Minab schoolgirls murdered because of an AI? Hegseth and Trump should be held responsible when AI is put on the job.
ZKF-geförderter Autor:innen-Workshop @uni-konstanz.de „Soziologie im Zeitalter generativer KI: Forschung über und mit KI“ @berlinerjournal.bsky.social, Sebastian Koch und ich bündeln Beiträge, die empirische Felder und theoretische Perspektiven zusammenführen. Erscheint 2027.
#Soziologie #KI
"we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
No lie there!
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Four copies of the book Video-Analysis and Knowledge on Rewind displayed on green fabric. The cover shows a turquoise-yellow abstract design, with the title and editors (Ajit Singh, Christian Meier zu Verl & René Tuma) in black text. Routledge logo bottom right.
Our volume is out now!
“Video‑Analysis and Knowledge on Rewind” (Routledge, 2025)
Edited by Ajit Singh, Christian Meier zu Verl & René Tuma
Thanks to all contributors & supporters of this truly collaborative effort! @hill90210.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social
#sociology #videoanalysis #emca
Last week, A-K. Watolla, @cbpuschmann.bsky.social & P. Zerrer presented "The Societal Impact of Systemic Risks" to @ec.europa.eu & Digital Services Coordinators. It shows how #disinformation spreads, affects #democracy & reveals #research gaps.
👉 Study (in German): www.dsc.bund.de/DSC/DE/Aktue...
People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”
It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:
Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes
The Department of Science and Technology Studies at the @univie.ac.at is now recruiting for a full professor in Science and Technology Studies!
📅 Deadline for Application 17 September 2025.
Please share widely with your colleagues and those who may be interested! #STS
Apply now: ⤵️
New publication out in Social Science Computer Review, with @mikefarjam.bsky.social (lead) and Meike Lohkamp:
“A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis.”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A thread 🧵:
I am excited about the upcoming publication: #Video #Analysis and #Knowledge on Rewind (co-edited together with Ajit Singh & René Tuma)
#sociology #emca #interaction #music #dementia #space #science #gaming #data etc.
Preview PDF is already available on the T&F page:
doi.org/10.4324/9781...
Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics?
Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social.
Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues.
🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️)
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann und Dr. Miira Hill vom DCID-Lab erhalten den Communication History Division Top Paper Award der ICA für ihr Paper „Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German Right-Wing Social Media Commentators (Mis)remember Liberal Values”.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/ica-communic...
ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID-Lab will give a lecture on the communicative construction of visibility and subjectivation under the socio-technical conditions of the digital at the University of Milan-Bicocca on May 8, 2025.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/?p=7906
@cbpuschmann.bsky.social and @hill90210.bsky.social from the DCID Lab were awarded with the Communication History Division Top Paper Award at the ICA Conference 2025 🎉
Opening slide for "The devil is in the details: specificaitons of governing principles in private & public goernance of AI"
@rscarlets.bsky.social will present the paper on policy specifications in AI governance on behalf of a team with @reynoldscj.bsky.social Vasilisa Kuznetsova @ckatzenbach.bsky.social + me in an excellent panel on platform governance from @ica-clp.bsky.social
This morning started off with a little workshop on LLMs as tools and objects of research with input by @hill90210.bsky.social, Jiahui Xing, Vasilisa Kuznetsova, @gorwa.ca & Tarleton Gillespie. Super glad so many showed up and definitely a discussion to continue! #AoIR2025Symposium
#MSCA Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2025 – Call now open! 🚨
Are you a #postdoc looking to take the next big step in your #academic journey? The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is officially open - and we'd love to welcome you to the University of Vienna! 🏛️
More here: ⤵️
Call for Papers: Sociology of Knowledge Meets Human Rights #cfp #soziologie
Visual zur republica 25 mit Portraitfoto von Hendrik Heuer und dem Titel seiner Session Copyright: CAIS, republica
Wie kann #KI Milliarden Posts moderieren? Wo stößt sie an Grenzen? Hendrik Heuer (@hheuer.bsky.social) & weitere Forschende diskutieren am 27.5. die Grenzen automatisierter Erkennung von Hassrede & machen Moderationsprozesse transparent.
re-publica.com/de/session/t...
#rp25 #GenXYZ @re-publica.com
San Diego spends $2.5 million a year on Flock ALPR, exposing data about us to feds, while they close parks and libraries for those who need it for AC, wifi, and actual safety.
@sandiegotrust.bsky.social, Community Budget Alliance and so many others demanded safe places, not surveillance tonight.
46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media.
It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.
What if platforms decided what you should search for, without telling you how or why? In this position paper co-authored with @taylorannabell.bsky.social, @gorwa.ca, Jacob van de Kerkhof & @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social, we explore the TikTok Search feature and the governance challenges it creates.
📢 Unser Postdoc-Netzwerk „Das Junge ZiF“ nimmt wieder Fellows auf:
Wenn ihr interdisziplinäres Arbeiten weiterentwickeln und Kontakte mit WissenschaftlerInnen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen aus der ganzen Welt knüpfen wollt, bewerbt euch bis zum 22. Mai!
🔗 www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge...
Unsere Professorin Pfadenhauer und Team organisierten heuer zum 80. Jubiläum von Schütz' berühmtem Essay "On Multiple Realities" die VII. Konferenz des International Alfred Schutz Circle an der Uni Wien. Vielen Dank an den Herbert von Halem Verlag für die Unterstützung der Konferenz!
Weitere Infos ⤵️
Musk and Zuckerberg claim to champion free expression—but surveys across 10 countries reveal a troubling gap between billionaire rhetoric and public expectations on social media, content moderation, and free expression, write Yannis Theocharis, Spyros Kosmidis, Friederike Quint, and Jan Zilinsky:
…& TM Signal is a 3rd party signal capture app whiuch seems like it's a workaround to both have Signal's e2ee but *also* keep a regulatorily compliant archive?
At which point, I mean… just use the defense department's literally millions-if-not-billions of dollars of secure communications systems.
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Call for Papers!
📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop
🏫 University of Zurich
📅 13-14 November 2025
⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025
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Some statements from the last two days of
#COMPTEXT2025 worth discussing…🧐
🤓 come to the TOP cinema bar tonight to keep the conversation going and to
🥳 party with us after an inspiring conference!
🥂After Drinks & After Thoughts starting at 7pm🥂
@compcommlab.bsky.social
@comptext.bsky.social
Important topic! On after lunch in BIG Hörsaal at #COMPTEXT2025 with @indiiigo.bsky.social @krangelie.bsky.social @ahrabhikat.bsky.social
As this amazingly successful #COMPTEXT2025 comes to an end, it’s time for a bit of self-reflection 🔥
