Nate Tkacz

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Community Lectures programme information

If you are in London next week, we are delighted to welcome Professor Mel Gregg who will give a talk as part of our Community Lectures programme in MCCS, Goldsmiths, UoL. We usually go for a drink after!

Full details: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

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First day back from leave and I'm very happy to see our work on social media migration is out! Huge thanks to Carlos Cámara-Menoyo and Fangzhou Zhang for working on this project with me.

Full article is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@dmytri.to thought a lot about this back in the day. Might be worth revisiting.

www.metamute.org/editorial/ar...

Critical Data Center Studies Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; Sa...

Open Biblio:
If you write or podcast etc about data centers, feel free to add a citation/reference here:

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I've put together a little seminar series at @camri.bsky.social for 2025.

Full details here and links below.
drive.google.com/file/d/1IfQd...

Starting this week - all in person (for now) but open to anyone who can make it to central London of a Thursday evening.

"Contemporary conspiratorial, millennialist discourse on money, banking and wealth does not embody a delirious misrepresentation of the logic of finance: rather, it exacerbates the paranoid potentials inherent in mainstream financial imagination." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countries

Perhaps it's now time for organisations whose core missions include promoting evidence-based inquiry (e.g., universities and their academic units, learned societies, research centres, some think-tanks) to stop using X altogether to platform their work? Asking for (quite) a (lot of) friends.

Fixed-term lecturer position at Goldsmiths in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies.

jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vac...

Fixed-term lecturer position at Goldsmiths in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies.

jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vac...

(c) all of the above.

.@zentralwerkstatt.org and I co-wrote this piece on why you are (probably) doing AI criticism wrong as a humanist and why we, in Critical AI Studies, need to do better methodologically than 'So I asked ChatGPT a question and now I have thoughts...'
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...

I am collecting examples of the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024. What’s yours? They can be insightful for commentary, smart critique, or just because it shifted the conversation. I’ll post some of mine below as I go through them. #criticalAI

📣 New article from me, Thomas Struett, @paufder.bsky.social & @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy, available free & #openaccess in the International Journal of Communication:

Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse

ijoc.org/index.php/ij... #academia

What's really been happening in Gaza Investigative watchdog Airwars reveals all in just 20 minutes

Want to know what’s really been happening in #Gaza?
Investigative watchdog @airwars.bsky.social tells us how they made The Killings They Tweeted, the largest public analysis of Israeli military strike footage. @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Media theorist: the cup determines the situation

The idea of #altmetrics no longer relying on *cough* that other platform *cough* is very appealing! :)

Platform | 4 | A Tapestry of Meanings and Metaphors | Anne Helmond, Fe This chapter explores the metaphorical ‘tapestry’ of meanings woven into the ‘platform’ metaphor, tracing its journey from a technical term in the computing

Hi, nice to be here 👋! Recently published:

* The 'Platform' metaphor (w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

* 'Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI' (w/
@fvandervlist.bsky.social & @fabianlferrari.bsky.social): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬

Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK
Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf
Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv
Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b
Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u

"troubling Al: call for screenshots"

screenshot reads: "How can screenshots trouble our understanding of Al?" Full text can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me/

How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: troubling-ai.glitch.me