Nick Couldry

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...

Am travelling now. Thanks for your email. Will reply over the weekend

YouTube video by LSE Can human solidarity survive social media and what if it can’t? | LSE Event

for those who missed the live version of my recent talk and debate at LSE with Baroness Beeban Kidron on the future of social media, here is the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Fv... . For me, was an amazing evening and made the huge effort of writing the book worthwhile! @lsemedia.bsky.social

So sorry to hear this. Happy to go on talking I'd you reach out to me by email n.couldry@lse.ac.uk

I hear you and deeply sympathise. That's why I am writing a book to try and challenge this. Se ior scholars have a responsibility yo try and shape the debate, since junior scholars are put in an impossible position.

Another brave article by @lmesseri.bsky.social and @mjcrockett.bsky.social . Essential reading if you care about the harm AI celebrationism is doing!

Resisting AI is in OUR hands!

AI introduces entirely new definitions of 'risk management,' but we should not accept them

Nice to be included in this company! Critics of AI are growing but certainly need to give each other support

Thanks Lisa. I am rushing to finish first draft of a book on AI which I hope will be out by end of next year. Let me know if you'd like to know more and I'll drop you a line by email

Very excited to announce that my paper 'Human Life as Terra Nullius' with @jcmagalhaes.bsky.social on colonial implications of Facebook's early patents is out: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Has been a privilege to work with Joao on this and develop the concept of 'socially blind engineering'

We had an amazing f2f and online audience of 400 pr so. I hope we can do morr events like this.

🗓 Event details:
📍 In person (Old Theatre, LSE) & online
🕡 Thurs 2 Oct | 6:30–8pm (UK)
🎤 Speakers: @couldrynick.bsky.social Baroness Beeban Kidron
🎙 Chair: @myriageorgiou.bsky.social

This interview (available in English and Portuguese) with the Brazilian journal Algorithms and Society reflects on my recent work on data colonialism and social , and also my current work on AI: periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/al... @lsemedia.bsky.social

on 2nd October I'll give an LSE lecture on the future of social media based on my recent book The Space of the World www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... Baroness Beeban Kidron will respond and Myria Georgiou will be chairing. Do come: there'll be a live stream too! www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-s...

Great link! I have the deepest respect for Sara Ahmed's work

If you are in the London area, hope you can come to this!

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

If students feel alienated from classes they should immediately form a Marx reading circle and discuss this further rather than being a prompt for yet another Atlantic doom piece about college ;)!

How we risk ignoring children's rights in our digital design aka trashing the future

An important battle

This is a really important debate, more important than ever given recent US moves

Exclusive: Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union's Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed.

Out in the open: the US administration’s attempt to undermine the EU Digital Services Act (and other regulations) was evident.

Now it has been elevated to formal policy and goal of diplomatic efforts.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

you re right to pick up on this nonsense. Imagination without content or reference is not imagination!

I am thrilled too! Thanks to @lsemedia.bsky.social for all its support over the years!!