Nick Couldry

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!!

When the hypernudge becomes the rule in platform advertising - Media@LSE LSE's Professor Nick Couldry uses the framework of data colonialism to reflect on Zuckerberg's claim that Meta can replace ad agencies using AI-driven processes

Have a new blog for @lsemedia.bsky.social which reads Mark Zuckerberg' recent pronouncements on Meta's implications for advertising through lens of data colonialism: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202.... If you're interested in my other recent blogs, they're collected here: www.nickcouldry.org/blog-1

I am thrilled to say that I will be one of the new British Academy fellows. I look forward to joining colleagues to continue raising the profile of critical media research in Britain and internationally @lsemedia.bsky.social

Reinstate the Four Suspended Labour MPs The decision to suspend the whip from four MPs for opposing cuts to welfare payments for disabled people is wrong. Sign the petition to demand their reinstatement and a better future for Labour:

The decision to suspend the whip from four MPs for opposing cuts to welfare payments for disabled people is wrong - and has to be reversed.

Sign the petition to demand their reinstatement: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

when tech companies roll out mass surveillance, it’s positioned as convenience or at worst the acceptable cost of going online

when governments try to rein in the harms unleashed by unregulated tech companies, it’s smeared as surveillance and a violation of people’s rights

how convenient

From AI colonialism to co-creation: bridging the global AI divide - Media@LSE LSE’s Dr Ruhi Khan calls for a global shift from AI colonialism towards global co-creation: an ethical, inclusive, and locally driven AI.

‘From #AIcolonialism to co-creation’ argues for shift from domination to dialogue, where #AI is not just trained on data from the margins, but shaped by imaginaries rooted in #techjustice.

#decolonisingAI isn’t a design fix — it’s a radical reimagining of power.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

I read and loved that essay! We are thinking very much along the same lines

Thanks for the name check, Lisa.

Infantilising education through risk-averse educational technologies of calculability: a critical essay This paper describes a paradox in education where AI-driven technologies foster risk-averse learning while contributing to heightened global uncertainties. We highlight how the promises of AI promo...

New article by myself and @velislavahill.bsky.social OUT TODAY with the British Journal of Sociology of Education: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lsemedia.bsky.social

Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds Support is lowest in France, Spain and Poland, while 21% back authoritarian rule under certain circumstances

"More than one in five – 21% – would favour authoritarian rule under certain, unspecified circumstances. This was highest in Italy at 24% and lowest in Germany with 15%" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Prof Nick Couldry from the LSE on how social media has failed society Podcast Episode · Time for Trust · 07/02/2025 · 48m

Last month, I recorded this podcast with Prof Terry Flew of Sydney University about my recent book The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What if it Can't? Great conversation. Thanks @terryflew.bsky.social !! @politybooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Where it starts is never where it starts. The news that DOJ is prioritizing denaturalizations, combined with very vague explanations of who they will prioritize, is deeply concerning. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

If you want to understand the technical damage DOGE did to US government, read this masterly analysis by Bruce Schneier, delivered to congressional committee last month: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Canada rescinds digital services tax in a bid to advance trade talks with U.S. Canada has rescinded its digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms in a bid to advance trade negotiations with the U.S., Canada’s finance ministry said in a statement on Sunday, days after ...

A cowardly move by Mark Carney that shows Donald Trump his government can be pushed around and pressured into concessions in ongoing trade talks.

Elbows down seems to be Carney’s new slogan.

UVA Reels After President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Ousting James Ryan is a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s war against higher ed and sends a chilling message to other university leaders, experts say.

And, if you'e interested to read more about the crisis at University of Virginia and its implications for the whole US university sector: www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.

Eloquent article by @sivav.bsky.social on the cultural revolution going on in US universities: newrepublic.com/article/1973...

The signalling is not good, and signalling still matters