Rebecca Scharlach

The 2026 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint is in Malmö on 11-12 August, with wonderful keynotes by @annettemarkham.bsky.social, Susana Tosca, @katjungnickel.bsky.social and @ubiquity75.xyz Submit abstracts by 30 March.

Governing TikTok - A US Power Play 🎭

Check out our new analysis published in Tech Policy Press wrapping up the last year of US tech policy shenanigans leading up to the #TikTokdeal that closed last week.
Shout out to @alexturvy.bsky.social for leading this endeavor!

Wonderful @com-ai.bsky.social talk by @madianou.bsky.social sharing insights on her work on techno colonialism.
Inspired to practice some mundane resistance :)

“there are windmills all over euprope. there are windmills are all over the place.“ yes, indeed, Donald

rip aaron swartz you wouldve loved journal editors getting together and deciding submission fees is how we combat AI in academia

Preprints are uncharted territory for me, I very much enjoy reading the ones of fellow platform governance research colleagues, so if you have thoughts/comments/critique, please reach out!

In this study, @reynoldscj.bsky.social , @vasilisak.bsky.social, @blakeplease.bsky.social @ckatzenbach.bsky.social and I compare the values articulated in the EU AI Act 🇪🇺, and (GenAI) policies from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, Meta AI, and Mistral AI.

New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance

Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so...

#AIAct #AIGovernance #Values

Woman Hacks "Tinder for Nazis," Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots A hacker targeted a white supremacist dating website, lured users with an AI chatbot, and deleted the platform entirely live on stage.

Late to the party, but this is hands down best internet news in a bazillion years. Martha Root also created a website with leaked data from those right wing dating profiles (88% men) okstupid.lol chapeau #CCC

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you were so quick!!

The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www:
aoir.org/aoir2026/
This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR.
Please share with your networks. 🌮

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

So sorry for your loss, Sarah 💔

When I was a student, I used to look up dissertations by people whose work I admired, and I loved reading their acknowledgements to get a glimpse into their life (I actually still love doing that). So if even one person ends up doing the same with mine someday, I’ll be happy. 🙃

Each piece stands on its own, but I am still excited to see my dissertation out in the world as a single piece.

This cumulative dissertation was written within the ERC-funded DigitalValues project & supervised by Limor Shifman. It consists of three interconnected papers published in New Media & Society, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Social Media + Society.

After more than a year since completing my doctorate, my PhD thesis, “The Construction of Values by Social Media Platforms,” has finally made its way into the library (open access)🥳

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Sorry to have missed this, hope there’s another chance to hear or read about this :)

Orchid or (sadly?!) Google scholar

Good morning #Brussels!

Re-reading #Winner 's "Cyberlibertarian Myths" for my class tomorrow. Still a banger. Also thinking about how much of what he critiqued actually came true is wild.

"[...] In the broadest spectrum of awareness about these matters we need to ask: Are the practices, relationships and institutions affected by people's involvement with networked computing ones we wish foster? Or are they ones we must try to modify or even oppose?" Winner, 1997.

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»

The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info

Michelle has been invaluable in that role for nearly a decade now, but the time has come for @aoir.bsky.social to find a new coordinator to take on these vital duties. 2/2

Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...

@elinorcarmi.bsky.social tackling my pessimism with inspiring work on “the human data good practice” - very curious to see how this project will develop 🙂 #ZeMKI20

Very much enjoyed this presentation on the role of social norms & demarcation in platform regulation by @nathalievanraemdonck.com - long story short “democracy is hard” @ckatzenbach.bsky.social #ZeMKI20

Your conference live blogging is always so impressive 🤯

Also very much enjoyed the presentation by @hheuer.bsky.social on co-creating social media with some peak visuals #ZeMKI20

Throughly enjoyed this talk by Marilia Gehrke and @eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social on gendered disinformation as violence (as always, slides were 🔥) #ZeMKI20

#ZeMKI20 started off with a fantastic —and optimistic—keynote by José van Dijck on how to achieve digital autonomy in Europe